Vladimir Torchilin

Dr. Torchilin is also a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. Prior to Northeastern, Dr. Torchilin was Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Dr. Torchilin’s interests include drug delivery and targeting, nanomedicine, multifunctional and stimuli-sensitive pharmaceutical nanocarriers, biomedical polymers, experimental cancer therapy. Dr. Torchilin has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 12 books, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 52,000 citations of his papers with H-index of 102. Dr. Torchilin is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Drug Delivery, and OpenNano, Co-Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and on the Editorial Boards of many other journals. Dr. Torchilin received more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding. Dr. Torchilin has multiple honors and awards and in 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010. Dr. Torchilin received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry, and MS in Chemistry from Moscow State University.