2020+ 2010-2019 clone tag: -3192351443565993269 clone tag: -3466013547965190718 clone tag: -3806948773595126412 SONY DSC Left: John Klier (PhD'88), Nancy Klier, Lisa Brannon-Peppas (PhD'88), Lisa and Alec Scranton (PhD'90). Right: Alec Scranton and Lisa Scranton. Kammermeyer Lecture, University of Iowa. March 5-7, 2014. Nicholas Peppas with Professor Ali Salem. Head of the Division of Pharmaceutics, University of Iowa. Kammermeyer Lecture, University of Iowa. March 5-7, 2014. During his visit to the University of California at San Diego, Nicholas Peppas a "classmate" from his days at the preparatory school of Mantas in Athens, Greece (1964-66) that he had not seen for 49 years. This is Professor Xanthippi Markenskoff (http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/markenscoff/) who is now Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UCSD. February 10, 2014. Alec & Lisa Scranton at Iowa City. Alec (PhD '90) is now Dean of Engineering. Lisa was our lab assistant. Kammermeyer Lecture, University of Iowa. March 5-7, 2014. Four University of Iowa chemical engineers in the lab academic tree now at University of Iowa: Allan Guymon (Chair of the Chemical Engineering Department), Julie Jessop, Alec Scranton (Dean of Engineering), Jennifer Fiegel. Kammermeyer Lecture, University of Iowa. March 5-7, 2014. Old capitol, now a landmark of the University of Iowa. Kammermeyer Lecture, University of Iowa. March 5-7, 2014. Richard Korsmeyer (NAE) of Pfizer, speaking at the 2014 Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae reception at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Special awards ceremony in the new atrium of the Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering of Purdue University. From left to right in the back, Prof. Doraiswami "Ramki" Ramkrishna (NAE, who started at Purdue with NAP in 1976), Nicholas Peppas (NAE, IOM, at Purdue from 1976 to 2002), Prof. John Morgan, Prof. Julie Liu, Mr. David Williams, Prof. Y.Y Won, Prof. Bryan Boudouris and Prof. Vilas Pol. In the front, Ms Renni Ridgeway Korsmeyer and Dr Richard Korsmeyer (NAE, MS '81, PhD '84). Behind Nap in the display we see photos of all the honorary doctorates of ChE at Purdue, including Norris Shreve, who was the second department Head and the author of the famous "Chemical Process Industries". West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. A celebration for the Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae awardees Antonios Mikos (MS '85, PhD '88) and Richard Korsmeyer (MS '81, PhD '83). West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Tony Mikos (MS '85, PhD '88) and Nicholas Peppas meet again Alan Rebar, former Dean of Veterinary Medicine and then Vice President of Purdue University who taught Tony and other chemical engineering students of the early 1980s various medical courses such as Histopathology at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Tony Mikos (NAE, IOM, MS ’85, PhD ’88) speaking at the 2014 Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae reception for the 2014 Purdue Distinguished alumnus. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae awardees Antonios Mikos (MS '85, PhD '88) and Richard Korsmeyer (MS '81, PhD '83). West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni/Alumnae awardees Antonios Mikos (MS '85, PhD '88) and Richard Korsmeyer (MS '81, PhD '83) with Nicholas Peppas. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Renni and Richard Korsmeyer (NAE, MS ’81, PhD ’84) at the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus reception at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Nicholas Peppas and Tony Mikos at Purdue University for the Distinguished Engineering Alumni event. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Tony Mikos and Nicholas Peppas in front of the lab space at Purdue University 25 yrs ago. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Memories from 1986. Tony Mikos of Rice in front of his PhD thesis hoods at Purdue 25 yrs ago. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Tony Mikos (MS’85, PhD ’88, NAE, IOM), Nicholas Peppas (NAE, IOM), and Lydia Kavraki (IOM) at the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Event at Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. Honoring 2 distinguished Purdue alumni, Tony Mikos of Rice (NAE, IOM) and Richard Korsmeyer of Pfizer (NAE). From left: Tony Mikos (NAE, IOM), Richard Korsmeyer (NAE), Renni Korsmeyer, Nicholas Peppas (NAE, IOM), Ramki Ramkrishna (NAE), and Lydia Kavraki (IOM). West Lafayette, Indiana. Feb 21, 2014. 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Peppas gave the AIChE institute lecture, Le Plus Ça Change...Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in An Evolving Chemical Engineering World, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Nicholas A. Peppas gave the AIChE institute lecture, Le Plus Ça Change...Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in An Evolving Chemical Engineering World, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Nicholas A. Peppas gave the AIChE institute lecture, Le Plus Ça Change...Nanotechnology and Bioengineering in An Evolving Chemical Engineering World, on Wednesday, November 7, 2007. -- September 2007 School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston United Kingdom, The Impact of New Technologies on the Future of Pharmacy Practice and Science From Left: Bill Dawson, Lindsay McClure, Tony D’Emanuele, David Pruce, Damien Day, Nicholas Peppas October 2007 Experiments at the Thomas Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia, PA. From left: Maggie Phillips, Daniel Carr and Tony Tuesca, a Drexel University PhD student and friend of the laboratory. November 2007 Isis Trenchard (BS ’08, winner of the 2007 undergraduate research award of the Society of Biomedical Engineering), Nicholas Peppas and Maggie Phillips (PhD candidate, President of the National Student Chapters of the Society for Biomaterials) Summer 2006 Annual croquet game: From right Omar Fisher, Tania Betancourt (now postdoc in the Peppas labs), Steve Marek, Justin Shofner, Adam Ekenseair, Brock Thomas (leaning, now with Eastman Chemicals in Kingsport, TN)), Terry Farmer (now with Capitol One in Dallas, TX), Irma Sanchez (now a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tecnologico of Monterrey, Mexico) and Amber Doiron Summer 2006 Brock Thomas (PhD ’06, now at Eastman Chemicals, Kingsport, TN), Mathilde Boudes (worked with us in the summer 2006, now at Sanofi-Aventis in Paris) and Don Owens (PhD ’07, now at ExxonMobil in Houston) August 2006 With Lisa Lao, a Ph D student at the Nanyang Technical University, who was a visiting scientist in our laboratory at UT. November 2006 Michael Sefton, University Professor of the University of Toronto, Canada, Nicholas Peppas and Patric Wong, Vice-President of ALZA Corp reunite in San Francisco on the occasion of the 2006 AIChE meeting. Mike, Pat and Nicholas were working together in Professor Merrill’s laboratory 35 years earlier! Pat Wong was a postdoctoral fellow, while Mike and Nicholas were graduate students. October 2006 The 2006 class of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In the first raw, center Professor Peppas. To his left, Professor Samuel Bodman, Energy Secretary of the GW Bush administration. Dr Bodman was Dr Peppas’ professor in an MIT course on Enterpreneurship (10.72) back in the early 1970s. To the right of Prof Peppas, Professor Bernhard Pallson, another chemical engineer, now Professor of BME at the University of California in San Diego, and two spots further Prof Jack Linehan of Stanford, a distinguished biomedical engineer. October 2006 Induction of Professor Nicholas Peppas to the National Academy of Engineering with (left) William Wulf, NAE President, and Craig Bennett, NAE Chair. October 2006 Induction of Professor Linda Katehi (provost of the University of Illinois at Urnbana-Champaign) and Nicholas Peppas to the National Academy of Engineering February 2005 Kristi Anseth (BS ’92, postdoc ’94-95) receives the Alan Waterman Award from Dr Arden Bement, Director of the National Science Foundation. Kristi was first an undergraduate researcher in our laboratory. She started in 1990, having just arrived from Williston, ND. Her research project (that became also her BS thesis) was the kinetic analysis of fast polymerization reactions for multifunctional polymers. She did her PhD at the University of Colorado as a NSF Fellow, working with Christopher Bowman (his first PhD student) with Alec Scranton and Nicholas Peppas as members of her thesis committee. She returned to Purdue in 1994-95 a postdoc and then to MIT with Bob Langer. She is now a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. December 2005 Lisa Brannon-Peppas (PhD ’88) receives the BME Teaching Award at UT. September 2005 From the 15th International Symposium on Microencapsulation in Parma, Italy, on September 19, 2005. Gianfranco Spizzirri, Elena Losi and Nicholas Peppas May 2005 Annual meeting of the Society for Biomaterials. Awards were given to Professor Peppas (Founders Award) and Professor Julia Babensee (Young Investigator Award) of the BME Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology. June 2005 Presentation of the Gold Medal of the Académie Nationale of Paris, France. June 2005 European Polymer Congress, Moscow. Red Square June 2005 European Polymer Congress, Moscow. Red Square, St Basil Cathedral December 2005 Nicholas Peppas and Tony Lowman at the Eighth US-Japan Drug Delivery meeting in Kaanapali, HI. June 2005 Reception at the Académie nationale of Paris, France upon Professor Peppas’s election to this French Academy. Second from left is Professor Francis Puisieux of the University of Paris-Sud who made the nomination. First from right is Professor Dominique Duchêne of the University of Paris-Sud June 2005 Inaugural address to the Académie nationale of Paris, France upon Professor Peppas’s election to this French Academy. The lecture was given at the historic Academy building. The Academy was founded on April 11, 1803 by Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829). June 2005 34th Reunion of the 1971 Chemical Engineering graduating class of the National Technical University of Athens (Ethnikon Metsovion Polytechneion, EMP) First row (sitting) from left: Elias Kampakas, Costas Lamnatos, Anna Blatsi, Sokrates Rokotas Second row: Andreas Fintikles, Manolis Kakaroglou, Danae Doulia (now Professor at EMP) Third row: Yorgos Tsoukas, Kyriakos Masavetas (now Professor at EMP), Olga Kitsou, Maria Mandaraka (now Professor at EMP), Angela Ladia, Nikos Peppas, Artemis Bamiha, Costas Kyparissides (now Professor at the University of Thessaloniki), Petros Tzias, Sotiris Papanicholas Fourth row: Yannis Tsoukas, Thanassis Makris (Met Eng), Andreas Andritsos, Vassilis Gekas, Maurice Capuano, Mihalis Attarian, Antonis Zioudas, Nikos Fragiadakis Last left: Antonis Makaronides Present but left early: Yannis Kavallieratos, Nikos Arabatzis Absent: Apostolos Argyriades, Spyros Christodoulou, Petros Eliades, Cosats Ganetsos, Stelios Kanavis, Costas Karetzopoulos, Yannis Kolios, Yannis Kotsimbos, Costas Konstantinoglou, Mihalis Kapellas, Daphne Lipovats, Stelios Lolakas, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Manolis Nomikos, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Yorgos Papathanassiou, Christos Pavlou, Dimitris Samaras, Thodoros Sideropoulos (ExxonMobil USA), Panayiotis Tampakologos, Costas Theologos, Eustathios Triantafyllides, Stelios Tsonis, Dimitra Zerva April 2004 World Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences with Dr Laura Serra (left, now at Baxter) and Dr Kristy Wood (now at Epic) May 2004 With the students and research associates of professor Kozo Takayama’s laboratory at the new facilities of Hoshi University in Tokyo, Japan Among others: Professors Takayama , Peppas and Morishita in the middle and Dr Obata at the extreme right of the first raw. September 2004 Don Miller (PhD ’84) at the award ceremony of the “Heroes of Chemistry Award” of the American Chemical Society with Cavan Redmond, President, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare April 2004 Nicholas Peppas and Jay Blanchette April 2004 Brock Thomas, Kristy Wood, Jay Blanchette and Nicholas A Peppas April 2004 Jay Blanchette, Nicki Bergmann, Nicholas Peppas and Brock Thomas OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA May 2004 Visiting former PhD students in Seoul, Korea From left: Bumsang Kim (now Professor of ChE at Hongik University in Seoul), Myung Cheon Lee (now Professor of ChE at Dongguk University in Seoul) and Dukjoon Kim (now professor of ChE at Sung Kyun Kwan University in Suwon). June 2004 Plenary lecture at the Fourth ASAN-Harvard Joint International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine in Seoul, Korea, June 16, 2004. June 2004 From the Fourth ASAN-Harvard Joint International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine in Seoul, Korea. Professors Nicholas Peppas and Mehmet Toner of Harvard. June 2004 Plenary lecture at the Fourth ASAN-Harvard Joint International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine in Seoul, Korea, June 16, 2004. April 2004 World Congress of Biomaterials in Sydney April 2004 World Congress of Biomaterials in Sydney. Meeting of the Executive Committee of the US Society for Biomaterials From left clockwise: unknown, Tony Mikos (Rice University), Mauli Agrawal (University of Texas at San Antonio), Lynne Jones (Johns Hopkins University), Anne Mayer (State University of New York at Buffalo), Jim Byrnes (Genzyme), Mike Sefton (University of Toronto) May 2004 With the long term Japanese collaborators from Hoshi University in Tokyo Front row: Professor Tsuneji Nagai, then President of Hoshi University Back row: Professors Mariko Morishita and Kozo Takayama of Hoshi University Party at the AIChE meeting in Austin, November 2004 Former lab associates First row (sitting): Kristy Wood (Epic), Tom Dziubla (Univ Kentucky), Balaji Narasimhan (Iowa State Univ), Nicki Bergmann (St Louis Univ) Second row (first raw standing): Mark Byrne (Auburn Univ), Madeline Torres-Lugo (Univ Puerto Rico), Marianthi Ierapetritou and Yannis Androulakis (friends, Rutgers Univ), Esmaiel Jabbari (Univ South Carolina), Chris Bowman (Univ Colorado), Chris Brazel (Univ Alabama) and Surya Mallapragada (Iowa State Univ) Third row: Nicholas Peppas and Lisa Brannon-Peppas (Univ Texas at Austin), Alec Scranton (Univ Iowa), Bob Parker (Univ Pittsburgh), Jay Blanchette (Univ South Carolina), Kim HaydenHenthorn and David Henthorn (Univ Missouri at Rolla), Vanessa and Tom Chiesl Very back: Tony Lowman (Drexel Univ) Party at the AIChE meeting in Austin, November 2004 From the front, clockwise: Kristy Wood (now at Epic, Boston), Zach Hilt (Univ Kentucky), Jay Blanchette (Univ South Carolina), Bob Parker (Univ Pittsburgh), Tony Lowman (Drexel Univ), Mark Byrne (Auburn Univ), Chris Brazel (Univ Alabama), Nicki Bergmann (St Louis Univ) Christmas 2003 N Peppas, Jay Blanchette, Zach Hilt, Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Nikhil Kavimandan, Elizabeth Carroll, Preeti Sood, Don Barad, Terry Farmer, Kate Lee, Laura Serra, Hunter Lauten, Brock Thomas. Tania Betancourt, Kristy Wood, Nicki Bergmann Don Owens, Carolyn Files Christmas 2003 N Peppas, Elizabeth Carroll (BS ’04), Zach Hilt (PhD ’04), Don Barad (in residence ’03 and ’04), Jay Blanchette (PhD ’04), Nikhil Kavimandan (PhD ’05), Terry Farmer (PhD ’07), Laura Serra (PhD ’06), Hunter Lauten (PhD ’07), Brock Thomas (PhD ’06), Kristy Wood (PhD ’06), Nicki Bergmann (PhD ’05), Don Owens (PhD ’07), Preeti Sood (in residence ’04) July 2003 During the CRS Meeting of Glasgow, Scotland, N Peppas visited the ancestral hometown of Crieff, Perthshire, from where his maternal family Murray left after Cromwell’s win in England and Scotland to go to Memel, Germany and then Greece. Dale Wurster Award in Pharmaceutics awarded to N Peppas by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Nov 2002 August 2002 Aaron Foss (PHD ’02) and Nicholas Peppas prepare new oral drug delivery systems. Aaron was the originator of a new class of mucoadhesive carriers for oral delivery of insulin Spring 2002 The last group of graduate students at Purdue University Front: Mark Byrne, Bumsang Kim, Laura Serra, Nicki Bergmann, Ebru Oral, Jennifer Lopez, David Henthorn Back: Nicholas Peppas, Aaron Foss, Nikhil Kavimandan, Zach Hilt, Cristina Donini, Jay Blanchette Of these, Ebru Oral, Jennifer Lopez, Aaron Foss, and Cristina Donini finished at Purdue and the rest moved to the University of Texas at the end of December 2002. Ebru Oral was the very last student in the 26 year history of the lab at Purdue. She recalls printing six copies of her PhD thesis in the lab printer on November 20, 2002. As soon as she had finished, that printer was the last item packed and loaded in two trucks that left for Austin, arriving there on December 3. The Austin labs were operational on January 15, 2003! Mark Byrne and David Henthorn returned to Purdue at the end of 2003 to defend their theses. The rest graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. April 2001 From the retirement party of Professor Robert Greenkorn. From left: GV “Rex” Reklaitis, Rosemary and Bob Greenkorn, and Nicholas Peppas September 2001 Plenary Lecture at the 6th International Symposium on Polymers for Advanced Technologies in Eilat, Israel December 2000 Gavin Sinclair (BS ’83, 1961-2000) in 1999. Gavin W. Sinclair, was born South Bend, IN, but raised in Indianapolis. He enrolled in ChE at Purdue University where he met Jennifer; they were married in 1981. He pursued a double major in industrial management and chemical engineering and finished both of these degrees in four years graduating in May 1983. While at Purdue, he published his first paper in our laboratory, on the analysis of drug release mechanisms from swellable polymers. The paper was published in 1983 in the Journal of Membrane Science and has been cited more than 200 times. In June 1983, Gavin and Jennifer moved to New Jersey where he started work with Air Products and Chemicals in Allentown, PA. In 1990 he left his position as Market Manager for Automotive Applications at Air Products to join PPG Industries in Pittsburgh, PA. There he worked as Business Manager of Process Chemicals until 1997 when he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision as well as the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. As a professor, he was an outstanding teacher. In December 1985, when he was 24 years of age, he was diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live. During most of 1986, he battled cancer and endured very aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, as well as a very extensive surgical operation to remove a huge tumor in his chest, which involved severing one of his vocal chords and removing a lobe of his lung. As a result of the very aggressive cancer treatments which saved his life, he suffered many subsequent health problems including a stroke in 1990, constant pain which necessitated spinal surgery in 1989, and congestive heart failure which limited his physical ability. It was this damage to his heart which eventually resulted in his death. Although he was physically limited due to the many health problems he faced, he completed a Masters degree in Economics at Lehigh University while working full-time at Air Products and completed a PhD in Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon while working full-time at PPG. He also wrote a book entitled "All Things Work for Good" about his cancer experiences. Gavin enjoyed politics, golf and writing. He had a great skill for getting to the heart of an issue and coming up with novel approaches and ideas. His last textbook before his untimely deadth, "Life, Love and Economics" (see above) was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in October 2000 and Newsweek magazine in May 2000. Gavin passed away in Tucson, Arizona during Christmas 2000 at the age of 39. He was mourned by the Chemical Engineering and the whole Purdue University community, where his teaching and educational skills had become legendary. April 2000 A rare occasion of a Laboratory graduate awarding a prestigious award to another one… Here Professor Jennifer Sinclair (BS ’83) awards the 2000 ChE Alumnae Award to Sandy Mui (BS ’00). Sandy worked in the lab in 1999. Jennifer Sinclair Curtis was an important researcher in the lab in the 1981-83 period. She worked on moving boundary value problems during penetrant transport in glassy polymers and analyzed the associated swelling front. She published two very important modeling papers and went on to do her PhD at Princeton. She became a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Arizona and Purdue University. In 2004 she moved to the University of Florida where she is presently the Head of Chemical Engineering. The Winter 2008 issue of Chemical Engineering Education has a wonderful article about Jennifer’s life and accomplishments. October 2000 Herbert McCoy Award, highest research recognition of Purdue University awarded by then President of Purdue University Steven Beering. Prof Peppas was only the second engineer to receive this award (the first one was King-Sun Fu (1930-85), Goss Distinguished Professor of Engineering, in 1977). March 9, 2000 Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof Nicholas Peppas by the University of Athens, March 9, 2000. March 9, 2000 Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof Nicholas Peppas by the University of Athens, March 9, 2000. Doctoral lecture by Prof Nicholas Peppas at the main aula of the historic 1841 central building of the University on Panepistimiou (=University) Street in Athens, Greece. Peppas’s maternal great-grand father, Prof Athanassios Rousopoulos (1823-1898), was Professor of Archeaology at the University of Athens from 1858 to 1885. March 9 2000 Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof Nicholas Peppas by the University of Athens, March 9, 2000. From left: Prof Panos Macheras (promoter), Prof C. Demopoulos and Prof. G. Foscolos March 9 2000 Honorary doctorate awarded to Prof Nicholas Peppas by the University of Athens, March 9, 2000. Investiture of cup and gown of the University by Professors C. Demopoulos and G. Foscolos 1990-1999 October 1999 Todd Gehr (BS ’76, MS ’77) returns to Purdue to receive the OChE Award. Todd was the first graduate student of the laboratory. After his MD, he became a practicing nephrologist. He is now Chief of Nephrology at the Virginia Commonwealth Medical School. December 1998 Front: Nicholas Peppas, Madeline Torres-Lugo, Petr Bures, Bill Leobandung, Sujata Harshvardan, Jing Zhang, Sarah Peck, Jenny Harting Ward, Ebru Oral Back: Hideki Ichikawa, Yanbin Huang, Aaron Foss, David Henthorn, Javier Pacheco-Gomez, Christie Dorski Hassan Summer 1997 Front: Juergen Siepmann, Kelley Keys, Kairali Podual, Jing Zhang Back: Nicholas Peppas, Tony Lowman, Flemming Madsen, Christie Dorski, Rob Scott Nicholas Peppas spent a month as a Visiting Professor in 1996 in the Department of Materials Science of the University of Naples. Here during a visit to the Teatro San Carlo with Prof Paolo Colombo of the University of Parma (May 1996) From the banquet of the 23rd International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Kyoto, Japan, July 9, 1996. Tsuneji Nagai (Hoshi University, 1995-1996 CRS President), Nicholas Peppas (1987-1988 CRS President), Lisa Brannon-Peppas (1995-1997 CRS Secretary) and Susan Cady (2007-2008 CRS President) April 20, 1995 International Symposium on Biomedical Polymers in Honor of the 75th Birthday of prof. Tsuruta Kozo Takayama (Professor at Hoshi University), Nicholas A Peppas, Teiji Tsuruta (Professor at the University of Tokyo and Teruo Okano (Professor at the Tokyo Women’s College) in Tokyo April 1995 Visit to the Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan From left: Prof. Kozo Takayama, Prof. Mariko Morishita, Nicholas A Peppas, Obata-san, Prof. Tsuneji Nagai and Prof. Yoshie Maitani October 1996 Induction of Professor Peppas as an Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Medicine and Natural Sciences. From left: professor Paolo Colombo, Professor Anacleto Peracchia (1929-2000, President of the Society), Professor Tullo Vitali (1925-2007, Dean of the University of Parma) and Professor Peppas March 29, 1994 Israeli Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting, Beer-sheva, Israel From left: Bob Wellek (NSF manager), Nicholas Peppas, Jaime Wisniak (former President of Ben-Gurion University) June 1994 Cygnus dinner hosted at the Controlled Release Society Meeting, Nice, France From left: Lisa Brannon-Peppas (then President of Biogel Technology, and Treasurer of CRS), Nabuko Cleary, Gordon Amidon (CRS President, University of Michigan), Ann Pearlman, Begoña Charro-Guy, Richard Guy (now Professor at the University of Bath, UK), and Rodney Pearlman April 1996 A visit to the University of Parma. Since the late 1970s, PhD students of the Peppas laboratories were doing internships in European and Japanese Universities and companies. Here (from left): Professor Paolo Colombo, Patrizia Santi (now a professor at Parma), Surya Mallapragada (now a professor of chemical engineering at the Iowa State University), Chris Brazel (now professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alabama) and Dr Alessia deAscentiis who did a portion of her PhD in the Peppas laboratories. Alessia was the first one to observe the importance of chain interprenetration as a method to promote mucosal adhesion of polymer carriers. Visit and seminar at Nichiban Co., Hidaka, Japan, February 3, 1994. The School of Pharmacy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hadassah Medical School where Nicholas Peppas took a sabbatical leave in the Spring 1994 (February 1994). October 1, 1993 Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Edward W Merrill of MIT Nicholas Peppas speaking while Clark Colton and Ed Merrill of MIT are attending May 28, 1993 Transdermal Delivery Systems Meeting sponsored by Cygnus and Ichiban, Tokyo, Japan Vince Lee (Dean at the Univ South California), Ross Potts (Cygnus), Nicholas Peppas, Gary Cleary (CTO of Cygnus, now CEO of Corium International), Nabuko Cleary, Nicholas Peppas May 28, 1993 Transdermal Delivery Systems Meeting sponsored by Cygnus and Ichiban, Tokyo, Japan Front row middle: Vince Lee (Dean of Pharmacy at the Univ South California) Back row middle: Gary Cleary (CTO of Cygnus, now CEO of Corium International), Ross Potts, Nabuko Cleary, Nicholas Peppas December 1993 Sitting from left: ?. Rebecca Hays-Jessep (now in Horsell Graphic, UK), Surya Mallapragada (now Professor at Iowa State University), Glenn Fox (now at Ford Motors), Ann Grosvenor (received PhD from Univ Kentucky), Lakshminarayana Achar (Bayer India) Standing: Natalie Wisniewski (received PhD from Duke Univ), Ruggero Bettini (now Professor at the Univ of Parma, Italy), Nicholas Peppas, John and Cristi Bell-Huff, Linda Gudeman (now in Pyatigorsk, Russia), ?, Balaji Narasimhan (now Associate Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University), Chris Brazel (now Professor at the University of Alabama), Dev and Champa Kurdikar (now at Baxter). December 1993 Nicholas Peppas, Matt Helmkamp (now at Rohm and Haas), Becky Ficek-Fredrickson (now ophthalmologist at Northwest Eye Associates, Houston), Amy Ouellette (now at Brown University), Brad Berkowicz (now at Merck), and Mina Mazdai (now at Air Products). Sitting: Jennifer Smith (now at BP). September 1993 The late Nikolai Platé (1934-2006) shown here with Professors Peppas and Delgass at the Purdue ChE Faculty lounge during one of his visits to Purdue was a good friend of the laboratory. This scientific giant and international leader of the field of polymer science was an Academician and Secretary of the Soviet and then Russian Academy of Sciences. We had numerous interactions with his laboratory including the study of Alla Pavlova at Purdue and Chris Brazel and Balaji Narasimhan at the Academy. Professor Nikolai Platé passed away suddenly in October 2006 (September 1993) October 1993 Symposium Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Edward W Merrill (born August 29, 1923 in New Berford, MA) of MIT. Presentation of the Merrill Academic Family tree to Professor Merrill by Professor Clark Colton (October 1993) in a special symposium in his honor held at MIT. That same evening, a gala event was held at the Boston Aquarium in honor of Ed Merrill 70th birthday and 45-year career. A wonderful interview about the early days of biomedical engineering was published soon thereafter by IEEE. Ten years later and on the occasion of the Founders Award of the Society for Biomaterials (April 2003), Ed Merrill received the attached updated academic tree and addendum (October 1993). April 1993 Prof Peppas in a parody of himself (traveling all the time and too many publications) at the 1993 Razz Banquet. From Left Professors GV “Rex” Reklaitis, David Kessler, NAP, John Wiest and Ron Andres. January 30, 1992 CRS Workshop on Biomaterials and Controlled Release, Jupiter Beach, FL, From left: ?, Jindrich Kopecek (Univ of Utah), Nicholas Peppas, Elazar Edelman (MIT HST Program), Jorge Heller (then at SRI International), Allan Hoffman (Univ Washington), Dan Daniels and Robert Levy (then Univ Michigan) December 1992 Celebration of Allan Hoffman’s 60th Birthday with Scientific meeting at the Westin hotel, Maui, HI Front table (from left):Sung Wan Kim (univ Utah), Pavla Kopecková (Univ Utah), Jindrich Kopecek (Univ Utah), Jen Feijen (Twente Inst Technology, Enschede, Netherlands), Jim Anderson (with his back to the camera, Case Western Reserve University) Back table: Allan Hoffman (Univ Washington, standing), Claudio Migliaresi (Univ Trento, Italy), Michel Vert (Univ Montpellier, France) Christmas 1992 Balaji Narasimhan (now Assoc Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University), ?, Deepak Hariharan (Adhesives Research), Amy Ouellette (now at Brown University) January 1992 Mary Rugger- am Ende (PhD ’93) working with a refractometer. Mary was the first graduate student to analyze structural characteristics in solute transport in pH-sensitive materials. Her FTIR-based analysis has received more than 270 citations. Mary is very active in Pfizer in Groton, CT. May 1991 Academie des Alpilles, St Rémy en Provence, France Participants to the meeting including Prof Françoise Falson-Rieg (sitting in the middle, now Professor at the University of Lyon, and Drs Lisa Brannon-Peppas and Nicholas Peppas) December 1991 First US-Japan Drug Delivery Meeting in Maui, HI, at the Royal Lahaina hotel with Bob and Laura Langer Christmas 1991 Front row (from left): Mary Rugger-am Ende (now at Pfizer), Atul Khare (now at Baxter), Jennifer Sahlin (now at 3M), Esmaiel Jabbari (now a Professor at the University of South Carolina), Deb Kurdikar (now at Baxter), Saumitra Bhargava; second row: Jianchu Wu, Nicholas Peppas; third row: Kristi Anseth (now a Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado), Deepak Hariharan (now at Adhesives Research), Lakshminarayana Achar (now at Bayer India Ltd), Cristi Bell-Huff, Ankush Argade (now at Rigel Pharmaceuticals) Christmas 1991 Front row (from left): Mary Rugger-am Ende (now at Pfizer), Atul Khare (now at Baxter), Jennifer Sahlin (now at 3M), Esmaiel Jabbari (now a Professor at the University of South Carolina), Deb Kurdikar (now at Baxter); second row: Jianchu Wu, Nicholas Peppas; third row: Deepak Hariharan (now at Adhesives Research), Lakshminarayana Achar (now at Bayer India Ltd), Cristi Bell-Huff October 1991 Rohit Khanna (BS ’79) returns to campus to accept the OChE award from Prof GV “Rex” Reklaitis for outstanding contributions. After leaving the lab, and after a PhD at CalTech, Rohit started Dynamic Solutions, a computer company that was eventually purchased by Millipore. Rohit is now VP there. May 31, 1991 Lecture at the 25th Journees Galeniques Meeting, St. Rémy, France. Starting in 1967 these meetings http://www.gattefosse.com/internet/gatt-wk3.nsf/TECHDOCPARCLEF/00000332?OpenDocument&Menu=1 of the Académie des Alpilles were organized annually by Gattefossé of Lyon, France. The gracious host of these meetings was Mr Marcel Gattefossé (1918-2003), the visionary leader of the Gattefossé company. Held at the Mas Balille in St Rémy en Provence this exclusively scientific meeting has led to publication of more than 30 booklets (Bulletin Gattefossé) on the future of pharmaceutical sciences. July 1990 From left: Chris Bowman (sitting, now Assoc Dean of Engineering at the University of Colorado), Alec Scranton (now Assoc Dean of Engineering at the University of Iowa), Jennifer Sahlin (now at 3M), Jorge Olivares (now at Eli Lilly), Margaret Janusz-Olivares (now at Eli Lilly) Summer 1990 Esmaiel Jabbari (PhD ’93), Atul Khare (PhD ’92), Chris Bowman (BS ’88, PhD ’91), Cristi Bell-Huff (MS '92, PhD '94), Jennifer Sahlin (MS ’89, PhD ’92), Jianchu Wu (PhD ’92), Deepak Hariharan (PhD ’93), Nicholas Peppas and Mary Rugger-am Ende (PhD ’93). In the early nineties, the research group grew to 25 researchers with typically 11-13 PhD students working in the labs. Most of these students are leaders in the academic and industrial world now. March 1990 Gregg Howsmon (BS ’86, PhD ’90) was the last student to work on the subject of modeling of food packaging, a research that had started in 1977. Subsequently, Gregg did his PhD with Prof Nick Delgass and is now with ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge, LA. April 1990 Cristi Bell-Huff (MS '92, PhD '94) working with Valia-Chen cells. Cristi was a pioneer in solute transport in complexation membranes for biomedical applications. Her work on the mechanisms of protein transport has become the standard of analysis in the field and her review article in Progress in Polymer Science is a highly cited review. June 7, 1990 Three collaborators of the Peppas laboratory at the 10th Advanced Course on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, Bressanone, Italy, June 6, 1990. From left: Lauretta Maggi (now Professor at the University of Pavia), Didi Sangalli (now Professor at the University of Milan) and Patrizia Santi (now Professor at the University of Parma). Sitting at the table behind them is Paolo Giunchedi (now Professor at the University of Sassari). All four spent some time in our laboratories and have written publications with our students or with Dr Peppas. June 6, 1990 10th Advanced Course on Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Italian Chemical Society, Bressanone, Italy. Professors Francesco Veronese (Padova) and Aldo LaManna (Pavia) December 1990 Joint USA/Czechoslovak Workshop on Novel Polymers and Properties for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Prague, Czechoslovakia Plenary lecture by N Peppas December 1990 Joint USA/Czechoslovak Workshop on Novel Polymers and Properties for Biotechnology ad Bioengineering, Prague, Czechoslovakia From left: Drs Vacik, Vondreacek, Brynda, Krotochvil (then Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Sciences of the Czech Academy), Peska, Karel Dusek (grand man of polymer sciences, now professor at Charles University), ?, Chytry, Dan Urry (University of Alabama), Fournier, Ilavsky, Garrell, Kahovec, Stu Cooper (now Ohio State University), Alexander Svec (now University of California at Berkeley), Karel Ulbrech, Nicholas Peppas, Don Lyman (University of Utah), Benes, Bob Lenz (University of Massachusetts), Linda Cima-Griffith (MIT), Ralph Ottenbrite (Virginia Commonwealth University), Rypacek, Cefalin, Houska, Stol and Horak. Absent: David Tirrell (CalTech) 1980-1989 November 25, 1989 From left clockwise: Mike Wellons, Helen Wellons, Steve Lustig, Jerôme van Straaten and Lisa Brannon-Peppas. Mike and Helen Wellons worked with Professor Reklaitis and are now with ExxonMobil. Jerôme van Straaten spent a year as a visiting scientist working on protein adsorption on polymeric surfaces for non-thrombogenic applications. His work was extremely well cited. He is now with C.F.P.O. in Venissieux, France March 1989 Jennifer Sahlin (MS ’89, PhD ’92) working on a 1990s vintage Nicolet FTIR spectrophotometer. Jennifer was an important contributor to the group. In her MS thesis she developed the well-known relaxational/diffusional heuristic model that led to a new method of analysis of drug transport in swellable polymers. This work was published in IJP and has received more than 350 citations. Jennifer is now a manager with 3M in St Paul, MN March 1989 Jennifer Sahlin (MS ’89, PhD ’92) working on a 1990s vintage Nicolet FTIR spectrophotometer. Jennifer was an important contributor to the group. In her MS thesis she developed the well-known relaxational/diffusional heuristic model that led to a new method of analysis of drug transport in swellable polymers. This work was published in IJP and has received more than 350 citations. Jennifer is now a manager with 3M in St Paul, MN March 1989 Jennifer Sahlin (MS ’89, PhD ’92) working on a 1990s vintage Nicolet FTIR spectrophotometer. Jennifer was an important contributor to the group. In her MS thesis she developed the well-known relaxational/diffusional heuristic model that led to a new method of analysis of drug transport in swellable polymers. This work was published in IJP and has received more than 350 citations. Jennifer is now a manager with 3M in St Paul, MN March 1989 Jorge Olivares (MS ’90) working with a goniometer. Jorge had the distinction of being the last graduate student who worked on coal research. Yet, his professional career was in the biomedical field, with Eli Lilly in Lafayette, IN. February 1989 Lyn Eshelmann (BS ’87, PhD ’92) now with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. Lyn worked with Tony Mikos on new methods for hydrophilic polymer particle production. Later she was a PhD student in Dr Nick Delgass’ laboratory. She is now with Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. November 1989 AIChE meeting, San Francisco, CA, 1989 Nicholas Peppas, as Chairman of the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division of AIChE awards the 1989 Charles M Stine Award to Larry Duda of Penn State (1936-2006) and Jim Vrentas of Penn State, while Past Materials Division Chairman and Past AIChE President Sheldon Isakoff of E.I. duPont de Nemours looks on. May 1989 Diffusion ’89 International meeting in Parma, Italy Gala performance at the 16th century Teatro Farnese of Parma (constructed in 1618-1619 by Giovan Battista Aleotti, totally in wood) by the Winds Ensemble of the Arturo Toscanini Orchestra of Emilia-Romagna. From left: Cecile and Patrick Couvreur (University of Paris-Sud), Bob Langer (MIT), Nicholas Peppas and Ping Lee (then Ciba-Geigy). Behind Bob Langer Dick Seagrave of Iowa State University) and his wife. May 1988 APGI 1988 meeting. In front of the building of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry, France: From left: Patrizia Santi (now professor at the University of Parma), Paolo Colombo (now professor at the University of Parma), Robert Gurny (now professor at the University of Geneva), Ferdinando Giordano (now professor at the University of Parma), Ubaldo Conte (now professor at the University of Pavia), Carla Caramella (now professor at the University of Pavia) and Pierluigi Catellani (now professor emeritus at the University of Parma) March 1988 Pilgrimage of two avid operaphiles, Professor Ubaldo Conte (of the University of Pavia, Italy) and Professor Peppas in Puccini/Verdi/Giordano/Cilea/Mascagni/Leoncavallo country… Here in front of the house of Giuseppe Verdi in Roncole Verdi close to Bussetto (province of Parma) Fall 1988 From left: John Klier (now with Dow Chemical), Nancy Loiacono-Klier, Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Lisa Scranton, Alec Scranton (now Assoc Dean of Engineering at the Univ of Iowa) March 1988 Michelle Knight-Bridgewater (BS ’89, now in Akron, OH), Ron Harland, Rick Drummond (BS ’89, now with Nabisco in NJ), Alec Scranton and Lori Keneipp-Schrad (BS ’89) at the diffusion apparatus and the old UV spectrophotometer. Michelle Knight and Rick Drummond discovered an important oscillatory effect of the swelling behavior in pH-sensitive materials. June 1988 Award of the 1988 Curtis W McGraw Award for Outstanding Engineering Research under the age of 40 at the Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) meeting in Portland, OR August 1988 15th International Conference on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Basle, Switzerland, August 1988. Executive Committee, Board of Governors and Awards recipients of the US Controlled Release Society From left: Russell Arnold, Dieter Lohmann, Bob Koestler (Treasurer), Bob Haluska, Jorge Heller (Vice President), Tom Tice, Lynda Sanders (President-elect), Jörg Kreuter, Ping Lee, Ted Roseman (Past President), Tsuneji Nagai, Richard Guy (CRS Young Investigator Award), Robert Gurny (Secretary) and Nicholas Peppas (President) August 1988 15th International Conference on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Basle, Switzerland, August 1988. Awards Gala event held on August 17, 1988 at the Basle Convention Center. From left Nicholas Peppas (CRS President than year), Lisa Brannon-Peppas (Chair of two symposia at that meeting) and Terry Papoutsakis (PhD Purdue ChE ’79, former Professor at Rice University and Northwestern University, now duPont Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, that year one of the two plenary lecturers of the meeting). August 1988 15th International Conference on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Basle, Switzerland, August 1988. At the Exhibition Hall of the Basle Convention Center with (from left) Tiziana Canal (postdoctoral fellow in the Peppas laboratories in 1987-88, now with Actimex SrL, in Basovizza, Trieste, Italy), Terry Papoutsakis (PhD Purdue ChE ’79, now duPont Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, that year one of the two plenary lecturers of the meeting), Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Nicholas Peppas and Mara Lovrecich (postdoctoral fellow in the Peppas laboratories in 1987-88, now at the University of Trieste, Italy) August 1988 15th International Conference on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Basle, Switzerland, August 1988. Executive Committee meeting of the US Controlled Release Society. From left: Robert Gurny (Secretary), Lynda Saunders (President-elect) and Nicholas A Peppas (President) September 1987 Alec Scranton (now Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Iowa, PhD ’88) investigates the particle size distribution of hydrophilic polymer samples using a Coulter counter (September 1987). Alec was only the second PhD student to work on polymerization reaction engineering. The distinguished list of students who worked on polymerization reaction engineering started with Tony Mikos in 1983 (MS thesis) and continued with Alec Scranton, Andy Tsou (PhD ’87), Chris Bowman (PhD ’90), Eric Dietz (PhD ’94), Dev Kurdikar (PhD ’94), Rob Scott (PhD ’98), Jenny Harting-Ward (2000) and David Henthorn (BS ‘2003). The work was supported for almost 20 years by the National Science Foundation. October 1987 Ron Harland (MS ’85, PhD ’88) performing drug delivery studies with a USP dissolution apparatus (October 1987). Ron did valuable research on controlled release from semicrystalline polymers and developed important models for diffusion in composites. Among other things, Ron was the co-author of the 1987 History of ChE at Purdue University. October 1987 From left: Chris Bowman (BS ’88, PhD ’91, now Associate Dean of Engineering at the University of Colorado), Shari Kennett (BS ’88, now with Dow Chemicals Co.), Nicholas Peppas, Amy Curver-Mulesky (BS ’88, now with Bristol-Myers Squibb) and C. Michael Walker (BS ’88). They are shown here as seniors in Chemical Engineering. These four students (all doing honors (BS) theses at that time) created a formidable research team that studied fast polymerization reactions leading to information storage systems October 1987 Our colleague and collaborator at the University of Texas, Jennifer Brodbelt (now Professor of Chemistry) was a graduate student in Chemistry at Purdue working with Professor Graham Cooks (PhD ’89). To her left Ron Harland (MS ’85, PhD ’88, now CEO of PharmSolv LLC in Yardley, PA) October 1987 Two future physicians talk about their future plans, while still seniors in Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Jessica Alameda (now Guingrich, Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois in Peoria) and Waleed Shalaby (Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Riverside Healthcare Center in Wilmington, Delaware). Jessica studied at the University of Illinois medical School. Waleed did first his PhD in the Pharmacy Department at Purdue with Kinam Park. At that time he published a highly successful book on biodegradable hydrogels. He did his MD at the University of Pennsylvania May 15, 1987 First Scientific Meeting of the Industrial Health Group of East-Central France, Dijon, France. At the podium the late Professor Alice Verain (1920-92), Professor Peppas, Professor Pierre Buri (University of Geneva), Professor Yvette Pourcelot (University of Dijon, organizer of the meeting), Professor Francis Puisieux (University of Paris-Sud), and Dr. B Majoie (Laboratories Fournier, Chenôve, France) December 1987 On December 15, 1987 Nicholas Peppas and Lisa Brannon visited the University of Paris-Sud and presented recent work on new methods of delivery of drug and essential oils December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Sentimental departure with Francis Puisieux, Nicholas Peppas and Dominique Duchêne. These three, Patrick Couvreur and their students wrote together 27 original papers and 36 abstracts and preprints December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Professor Dominique Duchêne pours champagne to Nicholas Peppas’ glass as he continues analyzing solute diffusion and release December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). The professorial triumvirate of the University of Paris-Sud Pharmacy Department in the 80s, 90s and 00s consisted of (from left) Dominique Duchêne, Francis Puisieux and Patrick Couvreur. All three are major world figures in pharmaceutical sciences, not only for major contributions in bioadhesion and cyclodextrins (DD), advanced formulations and liposomes (FP) and oral delivery systems, cellular response and gene therapy (PC), but also through numerous leadership positions (President EUFEPS and APGI (DD), cabinet member in French government (FP), President GTV (PC)) and international awards (Janot Award (both FP and PC), CRS Award (PC), Nagai Award (DD), AAPS Fellow (DD and PC). December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Francis Puisieux, Nicholas Peppas and Dominique Duchêne share a joke while PhD student Olivier Saslawski listens. December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Center: Dennis Wouessidjewe (no a professor at the University of Lyon, France) and Professor Peppas December 1986 From the farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Left: Gilles Ponchel (standing), then a PhD student with Dominique Duchene, now professor of pharmacy at the University of Paris-Sud. Gilles, Dominique, Nicholas and Dennis (see next picture) developed the tensiometric technique of mucoadhesive material analysis and published five papers on various aspects of the analysis. Sitting with a red sweater is Serge Segot-Chicq, who did his DEA under Nicholas’ supervision and spent 8 months at Purdue working on novel swellable systems based on ethylene-vinyl alcohol. Serge is now manager of pharmaceutical research with Sanofi-Aventis in Anthony, France. Right: Olivier Saslawski (sitting) who did his doctorate under the supervision of Nicholas and Prof. Patrick Couvreur. Olivier was the first to show that temperature sensitive carriers could be used for therapeutic protein delivery. His 1988 APGI paper on insulin delivery is one of the earliest references in the field Standing at right are Nicholas Peppas (seen partially behind Dominique Duchene), Dominique Duchene, Francis Puisieux and Patrick Couvreur. December 1986 The farewell party for Nicholas Peppas at the end of his sabbatical year at the University of Paris-Sud in Chatenay-Malabry (June-December 1986). Standing in the middle is then graduate student Elias Fattal, now a distinguished Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Paris-Sud and President of APGI November 1986 Lisa Brannon (MS ’86, PhD ’88) runs a thermogravimetric analysis apparatus. Lisa’s PhD was the first major effort of the lab to use pH-sensitive hydrogels in drug delivery. She developed the successful “Brannon-Peppas model” of swelling behavior of ionic hydrogels and published some pioneering and highly cited work in the field (November 1986). Lisa was also the earliest student to work with pH-sensitive hydrogels in drug delivery. After three years at Eli Lilly, Lisa started Biogel Technology of Indianapolis, a company specializing in chemotherapeutic drug delivery (1991-2002). She is presently a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. March 1986 Eric Teillaud and Serge Segot-Chicq run early dissolution studies using a US Pharmacopoieia procedure. Collaboration with French researchers started in 1982. Eric Teillaud was an employee of the company Laboratoires Fournier in Chenôve, France when he started driving to Geneva, Switzerland to take Professor Peppas’ class on drug delivery in the Fall 1982. As a result of this interaction, Eric Teillaud came to our laboratory in 1985-86 and worked as a visiting scientist on drug delivery systems. He is now Head of Pharmaceutical Development at Merck Santé, in Lyon, France. Serge Segot-Chicq was a student of Professor Francis Puisieux at he University of Paris-Sud when he came to Purdue to work as a visiting scientist and get his DEA. He worked on novel swellable systems based on ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers. He is now manager at Sanofi-Aventis in Paris, France. December 1986 Nicholas Peppas and Professor Ubaldo Conte of the University of Pavia in front of the Duomo in the main square of Siena, Italy, after Peppas' seminar at the University of Siena. May 1985 A candid shot from the second Annual Croquet Game of the laboratory with Tony Mikos (left) and Ron Harland (right), two formidable competitors. Tony is now a distinguished professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Rice University, while Ron is President of PharmSolv LLC. October 1985 APV Workshop on Mucoadhesion in Köningswinter, Germany, close to Bonn. The grand master of pharmaceutical sciences Joe Robinson (right, 1936-2006) teaches Nicholas Peppas how to be a good pharmaceutical scientist. November 20, 1985 From left: Bill Padgett (BS ’78), Tom Padgett (BS ’78), Teri Nagel-Carter (BS ’81), Carol Saunders-Harbaugh (BS ’80, now with ExxonMobil) and Steve Padgett (BS ’78, now with East man Kodak) speaking about professional guidance on November 20, 1985. The last three were important contributors to research in our laboratories. Carol Saunders worked on poly(vinyl alcohol) membranes while Steve Padgett (along with Katie Holbeck-Patterson (BS ’78)) was instrumental in analyzing the three-dimensional structure of semicrystalline, plasticized poly(vinyl chloride). This work that was published in 1979 showed that it was possible to use Flory rubber elasticity theories to determine the distance between microcrystallites in slightly crystalline polymers. March 1985 Kent Urdahl (MS ’85) and Steve Lustig (MS ’85, PhD ’89) at the large laminar flow channel of Professor Neal Houze. Kent and Steve contributed significantly to our understanding of penetrant transport in glassy polymers. Kent Urdahl was any early contributor of advanced micrographic studies of cracking and crazing in glassy polymers. His work on penetrant overshoots due to crosslinking is classic. Steve Lustig developed probably the most advanced and molecularly accurate viscoelastic model for non-Fickian transport. February 1985 TWO PICTURES (next to each other?) Barbara Barr-Howell (BS ’82, MS ’85) and Phil Ritger (MS ’85) operate a Cahn microbalance and perform nasty swelling studies on bituminous coals. Phil Ritger developed the general transport theory in glassy polymers for coals. Yet, this work was applied also in drug delivery. The well-known Ritger-Peppas theory was published in two papers in the Journal of Controlled Release in 1987. One of these papers became the most cited paper in JCR’s history. It must be noted that the exponential form of the equation was first developed by Richard Korsmeyer and Nicholas Peppas as early as 1981, although it was Phil Ritger that provided the detailed analysis for all geometries. February 1985 TWO PICTURES (next to each other?) Barbara Barr-Howell (BS ’82, MS ’85) and Phil Ritger (MS ’85) operate a Cahn microbalance and perform nasty swelling studies on bituminous coals. Phil Ritger developed the general transport theory in glassy polymers for coals. Yet, this work was applied also in drug delivery. The well-known Ritger-Peppas theory was published in two papers in the Journal of Controlled Release in 1987. One of these papers became the most cited paper in JCR’s history. It must be noted that the exponential form of the equation was first developed by Richard Korsmeyer and Nicholas Peppas as early as 1981, although it was Phil Ritger that provided the detailed analysis for all geometries. April 1985 Steve Lustig (MS ’85, PhD ’89), Kent Urdahl (MS ’85), Tony Mikos (MS ’85, PhD ’88), Ron Harland (BS '83, MS '85, PhD '88) and Eric Teillaud (visiting scientist ’85-86) July 1985 Tony Mikos (left) and Steve Lustig (right) at the 12th International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Geneva, Switzerland. July 1985 Nicholas Peppas and Tom Haluska receive awards at the 12th International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials, Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting is otherwise known as the Controlled Release Society meeting. The 1985 meeting was the first one organized outside of the USA and it was a great success. The organizers were Professors Peppas and Robert Gurny (University of Geneva) December 1984 On December 19,1984, the Indianapolis Star announced in its first page the first mucoadhesive systems developed in Peppas’ laboratories, through early collaboration of Pierre Buri of the University of Geneva and our group. The very early Purdue researchers in the mucoadhesion field were Jennifer Sahlin, L. Achar, Natalie Wisniewski, Esmaiel Jabbari and Jennifer Bauerle. May 1984 John (BS ’84) and Barbara Howell (BS ’82, MS ’85) were very important contributors to the laboratory in the areas of penetrant transport in glassy polymers, polymer characterization and solvent diffusion in coals. Their work led to a better understanding of penetrant transport of thermodynamically poor solvents in glassy polymers and macromolecular structures. Through their work they were able to advance our understanding of Case II transport. January 1984 Ray Davidson (MS ’82, PhD ’85, now a consultant in Kalamazoo, MI). Ray was the second student (after Todd Gehr) who worked on biocompatible polymers. His work applied to the development of novel artificial kidney membranes. April 1984 Our thermal analysis system (differential scanning calorimeter, thermomechanical and thermogravimetric analyzers) in our laboratory. From left: Phil Ritger (MS ’85), Barbara Barr-Howell (MS ’85), John Howell (BS ’84) and Tony Mikos (MS ’85, PhD ’88). Phil, Barbara and John were main contributors to the research on the macromolecular structure of bituminous coals. In those days, work done by these students as well as Don Hooker, Lucy Lucht, Mary Beth Hill and, later, Jorge Olivares has a significant impact not only on coal but also on the molecular analysis of non-Gaussian networks. Tony Mikos was still doing his MS thesis on polymerization reaction engineering. It was sin his PhD thesis that he started working on biomedical problems. Christmas 1983 Steve Lustig (MS ’85, PhD ’89), Tony Mikos (BS ’85, PhD ’88), Don Miller (PhD ’84) and Eva Swan (later Eva Swan-Miller, MS ‘81). Steve Lustig is a distinguished senior scientist with E.I. du Pont deNemours with exceptional research on glassy polymer behavior. Eva Swan was the first student to analyze the porous structure of ethylene-vinyl acetate-based drug delivery systems for protein release. Working in parallel with Ron Siegel (PhD ’83 with Bob Langer at MIT), she established the definitive models of protein transport from these porous polymers. “Nicholas returned from Geneva in December 1982. From Eric Doelker he had learned to wear “foulards” around his neck. In January he left again for CalTech for the second part of his sabbatical. We were not happy”. Here are four of the first five PhDs of the lab. From left Ray Davidson (retired Upjohn), Don Miller (retired Wyeth and Pfizer), Richard Korsmeyer (retired Pfizer), Lucy Lucht (still active at Lawrence Livermore and now Lucy Hair) A= Glove box! B= The old Blue M oven (still somewhere in the lab not working) C= TGA and behind it DSC (Perkin Elmer at that time) D- Drinking in the lab E- the first Apple computer (not Mac) with soft (paper) floppy discs September 1982 During Peppas’s sabbatical at the University of Geneva in 1982, his three hosts: from left, Robert Gurny (who had been earlier a postdoc at Purdue (1977-79), now Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Geneva), Pierre Buri (then Director of the labs, now retired), and Eric Doelker (then professor, later Vice-rector of the University). November 1982 Chantal Doelker (left, a scientist) and Claudine Leuthold (a PhD student) in the laboratories of Professors Buri and Doelker at the University of Geneva. November 1982 Three Genevois PhD students who did part of their PhD research under the supervision of Prof Peppas. All three spent some time in our laboratories at Purdue. From left: Bruno Gander (now Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Geneva) who worked on poly(vinyl alcohol) micromatrices for drug delivery (co-advisors: Eric Doelker and Robert Gurny), Christian Robert (now with the cantonal government in Geneva) who worked on swellable microparticles for release of poorly soluble drugs (co-advisor: Pierre Buri), and Christian Bindschaedler (now at Merck-Serono in Geneva) who worked on advanced modeling of colloidal structures and their drug partitioning (co-advisors:Eric Doelker and Robert Gurny) December 1982 Upon completion of Prof Peppas’s first sabbatical at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (August-December 1982), a good bye dinner was given in his honor. In that dinner Professor Peppas and Professor Pierre Buri read the beginning of the Iliad of Homer, Nicholas in modern Greek, Pierre in Erasmian Greek. The great collaboration between the Peppas lab and the Buri/Doelker/Gurny labs started in 1978 and continued until 2006 when the last of 37 papers, a highly cited review on chitosans, was published! September 1982 Nicholas Peppas in the new polymer rheology laboratory in the Potter building (September 1982). August 1982 Old and new graduate students pose for a picture. Students who worked in the Peppas labs include: First row from left: Lucy Hair-Lucht (BS ’78, PhD ’83, now with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California) and Katy Reinhart-Stutts (MS ’80, now with Corning in Corning, NY). Second row: Don Miller (PhD ’84, now Director of Oncology at Wyeth) and Ray Davidson (MS ’82, PhD ’85, now a consultant in Kalamazoo, MI). In the middle of the last row, Barbara Barr-Howell (MS ’84, now with Kimberley-Clark in Atlanta, GA). Lucy Hair was the researcher who started the work on the use of macromolecular theories to analyze the swelling behavior of bituminous coals, as subject that continued until the very early 1990s with DOE support. Katy Reinhart was the originator of the Reinhart-Peppas theory of solute diffusion in hydrogels. Don Miller was a pioneer in protein absorption studies on hydrogel surfaces, work that led to improved biocompatible biomaterials. Characteristic of the prevailing climate in chemical engineering those days is that in 1983, while interviewing with a major oil company, Don was scolded by their recruiters that his research was “not chemical engineering”. Don went on to wok with several pharmaceutical companies. He is now Director of Oncology at Wyeth. Don was one of the originators of the Mylotarg® cancer therapy technology and was recognized by the American Chemical Society with its 2004 Hero of Chemistry award. The oil company in question does not exist anymore… Ray Davidson was the second student (after Todd Gehr, MS ‘77) who worked on biocompatible polymers. His work was applied to the development of novel artificial kidney membranes. Finally, Barbara Barr-Howell continued Lucy Lucht’s work in the field of bituminous coals and developed the earliest work on anomalous transport in coals. She determined the relaxational importance in the bituminous coal structure in coal swelling. Barbara is the holder of the record for most publications from a MS thesis. She published 12 papers! August 30, 1982 International IUPAC Macromolecular Symposium, Athens, Greece. First row: Prof. John Vlachopoulos (McMaster University) and Prof. Monty Shaw (University of Connecticut). Second row: Nicholas Peppas and Dr. George Vassilatos (EI duPont de Nemours) March 1980 Our biomedical lab in the Potter building in March 1980. At that time, Dean Hancock had allocated this lab for the biomedical and biomaterials work. Steve Ash, Ron Barile and Nicholas Peppas had their laboratories there, and most of the portable artificial kidney work was done in those labs. August 1980 A corner of our first lab in CMET 210 in August 1980. An early Waters GPC can be seen on the left. In those early days Peppas had two labs (210 and 212) in the second floor of the then CMET building (built in 1938). The benches had been brought from … the salvage rooms of Purdue University as there were no funds for lab building or renovation. But NSF and NIH funding had already started and the labs were very well equipped. Peppas’s office was in room 210A. One had to pass through the lab 210 to enter his office. There was no emergency exit to the corridors. These were truly different days…. April 1980 Spring picnic. From left: Steve Clark (BS '79, MS '82, PhD '85), Richard Korsmeyer (MS ’80, PhD ’83, now Global Head of Licensing, Pfizer, New London, CT), Mary Beth Hill (MS ’91, now with Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY) and Katy Reinhart-Stutts (MS ’80, now with Corning in Corning, NY). Steve Clark was an important contributor is early membrane research in our labs. April 1980 Brian Stutts (a PhD student of Professor Henry Lim), Katy Reinhart-Stutts (MS ’80, now with Corning in Corning, NY) and Mike Cala (a PhD student of Professors KC Chao and Bob Greenkorn) at the Departmental picnic. April 1980 Nicholas Peppas in early pre-Texan activities. Eva Swan and Don Miller in 1980. This photograph was used by Purdue ChE in their early 80s publicity to show the changing chemical engineering world. Don and Eva work now for Wyeth. Don Miller was the winner of the 2004 Heroes in Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society for his invention and production of the Mylotarg system for cancer treatment 1970-1979 October 1979 Ken Zieminski (MS ’80, now at 3M) and Kathy Davidson (BS ’82, English major) in the CMET 312K laboratory. These small laboratories in the third floor were poorly equipped and were disliked by most graduate students… Kathy Davidson was an important member of the 1981 College Bowl team of our laboratory a team that won the University-wide tournament and went to the regionals. The Purdue professors in charge of training the Purdue team were very concerned that the winning team was from Engineering and made every effort to replace some of its members by others! Members of this team included Richard Korsmeyer, Ray Davidson, Kathy Davidson and Jennifer Sinclair. Lucy Hair-Lucht (BS ’78, PhD ’83, now with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California) was the pioneering student who initiated the work on the use of macromolecular theories to analyze the swelling behavior of bituminous coals, a subject that continued until the very early 1990s with DOE support. Lucy was the first to develop a non-Gaussian network theory for tetrafunctional and other crosslinked structure. Application of the Lucht-Peppas theory to highly crosslinked networks gave exact values of the Mc and terms. Application of the same theories to bituminous coals lead to the first accurate analysis of the mesh size in coals. These results contributed to the discovery of better solvents and procedures for coal liquefaction. October 1979 Along with Katy Reinhart, Humphrey Moynihan (MS ’83, then PhD ’87 with Prof Linda Wang, now with Westvaco in Covington, VA) was a very early pioneer of solute diffusion theories in hydrogels. He developed the theory of solute diffusion in highly crosslinked, non-Gaussian networks. His work showed the importance of the network structure and mesh size on solute transport. Until then, it was generally believed that solute transport in gels and hydrogels was only affected by the equilibrium water content, something that Humphrey invalidated. October 1979 Ken Zieminski (MS ’80, the PhD at the University of Tennessee in polymer science, now at 3M) works with the Plasticorder®. Ken was the first graduate student to work on migration of plasticizers from polymers. His pioneering work, published 27 years ago, pointed out for the first time the serious problems with serious migration of phthalate-based plasticizers such as DEHP! Along with research on plastic packaging materials (by Rohit Khanna and others), the laboratory was soon recognized as a leading research laboratory on food packaging. October 1979 Ken Zieminski (MS ’80, now at 3M), Nicholas Peppas, Lucy Hair-Lucht (BS ’78, PhD ’83, now with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California) and Mark Kwoka (a graduate student of Prof. J. Caruthers) October 1979 From left, clockwise: Marianne and Hon Hooker, Don Barar, David Meadows, Don Miller October 1979 From left: Lucy Hair-Lucht (BS ’78, PhD ’83), Mary Beth Hill (MS ’81), Richard Korsmeyer (MS ’80, PhD ’83), Marianne and Hon Hooker (MS ’81), Don Barar (MS ’82 then an MBA at the University of Michigan), David Meadows (MS ’82, then PhD with Jerry Schultz at the University of Michigan), Don Miller (PhD ’84), Kathy Eleutherakis-Napp, Scott Napp (MS ’80. Later PhD with Henry Lim from the University of California at Irvine, Humphrey Moynihan (MS ’83, then PhD ’87 with Linda Wang of Purdue), Nitu Sekhon (BS ’80) and Katy Reinhart-Stutts (MS ’82). Lucy Hair-Lucht (BS ’78, PhD ’83, now with the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California) was the pioneering student who initiated the work on the use of macromolecular theories to analyze the swelling behavior of bituminous coals, a subject that continued until the very early 1990s with DOE support. Lucy was the first to develop a non-Gaussian network theory for tetrafunctional and other crosslinked structure. Application of the Lucht-Peppas theory to highly crosslinked networks gave exact values of the Mc and terms. Application of the same theories to bituminous coals lead to the first accurate analysis of the mesh size in coals. These results contributed to the discovery of better solvents and procedures for coal liquefaction. June 1979 Ray Davidson (MS ’82, PhD ’85) and Nicholas Peppas run a 1970s-vintage artificial kidney in our laboratories (June 1979). In the 1976-1985 period, Peppas had major research on non-thrombogenic biomaterials and artificial kidney membranes. He was a major contributor to the development of one of the earliest completely wearable artificial kidneys December 1979 Nitu Sekhon (BS ’80) runs a protein diffusion experiment using PVA membranes. It was in the late 1970s that a series of models on the effect of mesh size on solute transport was developed by Katy Reinhart-Stutts, Humphrey Moynihan and Nitu Sekhon. Nitu is now a senior engineer with GE Superabrasives in Washington, OH. Christmas 1979 Don Hooker, Don Miller, Connie Moynihan, Humphrey Moynihan and Marianne Hooker Spring 1979 Four young ChE professors at Purdue: Elias Franses, Mike Malone (now Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts), Jim Caruthers and Nicholas Peppas September 1978 One of the earliest pieces of equipment for the lab (September 1978) was a Banbury polymer mixer used in our polymer plasticizer work October 1978 The aftermath of the blizzard of ’78 in front of the Purdue Union October 1978 The blizzard of ’78 in West Lafayette, IN March 1978 Our first Instron apparatus for study of the small deformation mechanical behavior of hydrogels January 1978 The Andrej Potter building was inaugurated in 1978. In this new building named after the Purdue Dean of Engineering of forty years, Purdue created the first biomedical engineering program along with independent laboratories for biomedical and biochemical engineering. In the third floor of this “interdisciplinary engineering building” we had a laboratory for our artificial kidney and biomaterials research. November 1978 Rohit Khanna (middle) and Paula Hansen (right), classmates of the 1979 class, were two of the earliest undergraduates who worked in the laboratory. They made significant research contributions and published 5 papers. Rohit went on to do a PhD with Prof. John Seinfeld at CalTech and is now VP of Waters/Millipore, while Paula did an MS with Prof. Mike Williams at UC Berkeley and is now with Dow Chemicals in California. In those days, undergraduate research assistants were an integral component of the research focus of the laboratory. Many of them did long projects and published original data. More than 580 undergraduates have worked in our laboratories in the past 32 years. Fall 1978 Rohit Khanna (BS ’79) and Nicholas Peppas running a Banbury mixer (Fall 1978). Rohit Khanna was particularly proficient in mathematical modeling. As a junior and senior he was working simultaneously in two different projects with two different professors (NA Peppas and GV Reklaitis). He went on to publish several papers. At the 1979 regional AIChE meeting (in Notre Dame, IN) he presented two papers and received the first prize of the meeting. Also in 1979, he presented a paper at the ANTEC meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineers in New Orleans and received the Best Student Award. Fall 1978 Rohit Khanna (BS ’79) and Nicholas Peppas running a Banbury mixer (Fall 1978). Rohit Khanna was particularly proficient in mathematical modeling. As a junior and senior he was working simultaneously in two different projects with two different professors (NA Peppas and GV Reklaitis). He went on to publish several papers. At the 1979 regional AIChE meeting (in Notre Dame, IN) he presented two papers and received the first prize of the meeting. Also in 1979, he presented a paper at the ANTEC meeting of the Society of Plastics Engineers in New Orleans and received the Best Student Award. December 1977 Prof Peppas in his office when he was assigned to teach ChE 529, a course in Organic Chemical Technology, a course that Norris Shreve had started 40 years earlier… March 1977 Chris Creagan (PhD ’79) and Terry Papoutsakis (PhD ’79) working in the laboratory as graduate students. Professor Peppas was a member of Professor Papoutsakis’ PhD thesis committee. They met for the first time at the National Technical University of Athens in March 1974 when Terry was still a senior and Nicholas was working temporarily at NTU. Their friendship has continued for the past 34 years. Te recipient of numerous international awards including the Alpha Chi Sigma AIChE award, Terry Papoutsakis is now the Dupont Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware. As an undergraduate at Rice University, Professor Lisa Brannon (PhD ’88) worked in Prof. Papoutsakis’ laboratory. November 15, 1977 AIChE Meeting, New York. From left: Professor John O’Connell (now at the University of Virginia), Nicholas Peppas, Don Mohr, Professors GV Reklaitis and D Ramkrishna (in the back, Professors at Purdue), Steve Burdette (now with Corning in Corning, NY), Chris Rhodes (now with UOP in Chicago), Professor KC Chao (now retired from Purdue), Nancy Henkle-Burgess (now with Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, CA) and Mo Sood September 1976 First month at Purdue University. The Engineering complex November 1976 A differential scanning calorimeter (Perkin Elmer DSC-1B) was the first equipment of the Peppas laboratory purchased in October 1976 with $10,500 start-up funds!... December 1976 Linda Russell (BS ’77), 1976-77 President of the AIChE Student Chapter, works in the laboratory. July 4, 1976 (bicentennial) in Boston Back row (from left): Nicholas Peppas, Pepi Klouda, Nanta Papazoglou holding the young Alexander Georgakis, Tina Georgaki, Mihalis Fardis (now Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Greece), Tonia Fardi. Front row: Vassilis Papazoglou (now Professor of Naval Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece), and Christos Georgakis (now Professor of Chemical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA) January 1976 Nicholas Peppas holds a biocompatible poly(vinyl alcohol) membrane developed during his PhD thesis at MIT. It was that month that the first work on the biocompatibility of PVA was published, work that attracted wide scientific interest both in the professional and popular press February 1976 With students and collaborators of the Arteriosclerosis Center of MIT including Bernie Cusack, a lab manager in the Arteriosclerosis Center, Carlos Ramirez (center right, then a PhD student at MIT, now a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez) and Larry Feig (then a MS student at MIT, now a Professor of Biochemistry at Tufts University in Medford, MA). In those days the Arteriosclerosis Center of MIT was a major research center. Chemical engineer such as professors Ken Smith and Clark Colton were associated with the Center. It was also during those days that Professor Peppas met Professor Bob Nerem (see photographs of 2006) who was a young professor at Ohio State university and was working on arteriosclerosis as well. Graduate students and postdocs who passed through the laboratory in those days including Jay Scnhitzer (now Professor at Harvard Medical School), Carlos Ramirez (now a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez), Guy Chisolm (now a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Case Western Reserve University), Bob Bratzler (later Professor of Chemical Engineering at Princeton and now President of a company in Boston), Rena Bizios (now Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio) and George Truskey (now Head of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University). September 1975 Cape Cod, Massachusetts From left: Dr. Petros Antonopoulos (MIT nuclear engineer), Dr Stavros Anagnostopoulos (MIT civil engineer), Professor Elias Gyftopoulos (MIT, Dept of Nuclear Engineering), and Nicholas Peppas. Sitting: Dr Ioannis Constantopoulos (MIT, civil engineer) October 1975 Peppas as a postdoctoral fellow at the Arteriosclerosis Center of MIT. It was during this period at MIT that Nicholas got into biomedical engineering. June 1975 Peppas (very top, left, leaning towards the blackboard) as a postdoctoral fellow in the Arteriosclerosis center of MIT of Prof Robert Lees. Among others, Larry Feig (just in front of N Peppas, now Professor of Biochemistry at Tufts University), Rena Bizios (left of L Feig, now Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio), Jay Schnitzer (left and behind Rena Bizios, now Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School) and Guy Chisolm (next to Jay Schnitzer, now Vice Chairman of the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic) August 1974 Dr Nicholas Peppas served in the Greek Army. He graduated as a second Lieutenant in the School of Officers of the Ordnance Corps of the Greek Army. As the leader of his class, he represented his class of officers at the graduation ceremony in Lamia, Greece in August 1974 August 1974 Peppas (right) at the Ordnance Corps School for Officers of the Greek Army in Lamia, Greece July 1973 The first paper of Prof Peppas. It was published in the AIChE Journal and reported results of his studies on the thermodynamics of multivalent polyelectrolytes. This was the result of work he had done under the supervision of Prof. Herman “Fritz” Meissner while he was a teaching assistant in the spring 1972! Fritz Meissner was Peppas’ academic grandfather as he was the supervisor of Prof Merrill in 1945-47. The paper shown here is part of a series of papers published on this subject by Fritz Meissner and his then graduate students including C Cusik and Jeff Tester, now an MIT ChE professor. April 1973 Peppas sailing at Charles river (MIT, Cambridge, MA) as a graduate student March 1972 The MIT Cobalt-60 (gamma irradiation unit) was the only equipment in the small building E-66 that year. The building was demolished at the end of 1972 and became the site of the new Chemical Engineering building (E66) that was inaugurated two years later… January 1972 Nicholas Peppas as a first year graduate student in Ed Merrill MIT laboratories of biomaterials. The samples in the jars are semicrystalline poly(vinyl alcohol) gels. January 1972 The MIT electron beam irradiation unit at the Van de Graaf generator laboratory July 1970 IAESTE internship at the Shell company in Pernis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Here with NTU Athens classmate Costas Lamnatos (left, now Director of NewCo Ferronikeli Complex L.L.C), Pre-1970 May 11, 1969 Classmates at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (class of 1971) at an excursion to Aegina. Clockwise from top left: Antonis Makaronides, Maria Mandaraka, Costas Cavalieratos (with a portable 45 rpm player!), Artemis Bamiha, C. Karkasinas, Demetra Zerva, Anna Blatsi, Zerva’s sister, Costas Theologos, Mihalis Kapellas, Costas Lamnatos (compare to June 2005 picture above) August 1969 Nicholas Peppas during his first summer internship in a well known food company. Along with chemists Elias Stroumbos and Costas Mavroukakis he is seen at the BESO Winery in Patras, Greece as the first grapes arrive for fermentation. BESO was a major food products company, a good way for an intern to learn a number of processes from fermentation to distillation and chemical reactions such as saponification… Note the tie worn by Nap on the field. May 1967 Peppas as a freshman in the Analytical Chemistry laboratory at NTU Athens. The white bench covers were pure asbestos (for fire prevention)… June 1955 N Peppas at the age of seven in a summer camp in the island of Aegina, Saronic Gulf, Greece Skip back to main navigation
