Name Vladimir Torchilin | Role Biochemist | |
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Books Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs In. . Nominations RUSNANOPRIZE for Medicine, Pharmacology and Biotechnologies |
Vladimir Petrovich Torchilin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Торчилин, born 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and American biochemist, pharmacologist , and an expert in medical nanotechnology.
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Since 1991 lives in the USA. Since 1993-1999 he was with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 he is with Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1998-2008 as Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and as of 2005, Distinguished Professor and as of 2013, University Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine of Northeastern University.
PhD, DSc, MS, Moscow State University
Scientific work
V.Torchilin has published over 350 original papers, over 150 reviews, wrote and edited 10 books and holds over 40 patents. According to Google Scholar, his H index is 84 with more than 35,000 citations. Times Higher Education ranked V.Torchilin as #2 among world top scientists in pharmacology for the years 2001-2010.
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Prose
In addition to his scientific work, Torchilin publishes essays and short stories in Russian and American magazines and newspapers.