Professor Daniel Anderson has received the 2023 Wilhelm Exner Medal, awarded by the Austrian Trade Affiliation, for excellence in analysis and science since 1921. Anderson will obtain the award through the Wilhelm Exner Medal Basis’s Exner Lectures, Could 22-23 in Vienna, Austria.
“Professor Anderson has modified our world,” says Elazer R. Edelman, Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science, and the director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES). “The gadgets, and certainly ideas, he has created have formed what number of suppose and have enabled new therapies. We’re honored to have him as a part of our college and we have fun this award with our worldwide group.”
“The Exner Medal exemplifies a purpose of chemical engineering: having the ability to carry success within the lab out into the world the place it could enhance lives and the atmosphere,” shares Paula T. Hammond, Institute Professor and the pinnacle of the MIT Division of Chemical Engineering. “Dan’s innate skill to bridge his progressive analysis with entrepreneurial achievement has helped present lifesaving therapies to folks all over the world. He’s very deserving of this prestigious recognition.”
A professor of chemical engineering, Anderson is a core member of IMES and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Most cancers Analysis and the Harvard-MIT Program in Well being Sciences and Expertise. He’s a number one researcher within the fields of nanotherapeutics and biomaterials, and has pioneered the event of sensible supplies.
Anderson obtained a BA in arithmetic and biology from the College of California at Santa Cruz and a PhD in molecular genetics from the College of California at Davis. Anderson’s work has led to advances in a variety of areas, together with medical gadgets, cell remedy, drug supply, gene remedy and materials science, and has resulted within the publication of greater than 500 papers, patents, and patent functions. He has based a number of corporations, together with Residing Proof, Olivo Labs, Crispr Therapeutics (CRSP), Sigilon Therapeutics, Verseau Therapeutics, Orna, and VasoRx. He not too long ago obtained a $25 million grant from Sanofi to advance his RNA analysis.
Anderson’s Exner Lecture will talk about how medical gadgets have had a profound affect on human well being, together with residing medical gadgets and the broad potential use of nanoparticles and RNA in human therapeutics.
Earlier winners of the Wilhelm Exner Medal embrace MIT college members Edward Boyden (2020) and Robert Langer (2012).
