Winner: 2023 Biomaterials Science Lectureship
Eric Appel
Stanford University
For significant contributions to the field of biomaterials in their early career.
Eric A. Appel is an Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ and MS in Polymer Science from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. Eric performed his MS thesis research with Dr Jim Hedrick and Dr Robert Miller at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. He then obtained his PhD in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ with Prof. Oren A. Scherman at the University of Cambridge.
For his PhD work, Eric was the recipient of the Jon Weaver PhD prize from the ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ and a Graduate Student Award from the Materials Research Society. Upon graduating from Cambridge, he was awarded a National Research Service Award from the NIBIB and a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Prof. Robert Langer at MIT.
Eric’s research at Stanford focuses on the development of biomaterials that can be used as tools to better understand fundamental biological processes and to engineer advanced healthcare solutions.
His research has led to more than one hundred publications and 30 patents. While at Stanford, Eric has been awarded young faculty awards from the Hellman Foundation, American Diabetes Association, American Cancer Society, and PhRMA Foundation. He also recently received the IUPAC Hanwha-TotalEnergies Young Polymer Scientist Award in 2022 and the Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award in 2023.
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