Paula T. Hammond, a leading innovator in nanotechnology, has been named the recipient of the 2023-2024 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. She is Institute Professor at MIT and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She is the Vice Provost for Faculty at MIT as of January 2024.
Professor Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor, was honored for her work designing novel polymers and nanomaterials, which have extensive applications in fields including medicine and energy
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Paula T. Hammond
Paula T. Hammond is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vice Provost for Faculty. She is a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy Initiative, and a founding member of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology. The core of her work is the use of electrostatics and other complementary interactions to generate functional materials with highly controlled architecture. Her research in nanomedicine encompasses the development of new biomaterials to enable drug delivery from surfaces with spatio-temporal control. She also investigates novel responsive polymer architectures for targeted nanoparticle drug and gene delivery, and has developed self-assembled materials systems for electrochemical energy devices.
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