Joseph DeSimone

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joseph DeSimone
Occupation	Engineer
Date Of Birth	May 16, 1964(1964-05-16)
Age	60
Birthplace	Norristown
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Taurus

Joseph DeSimone Biography

Joseph DeSimone is one of the most popular and richest Engineer who was born on May 16, 1964 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States. Joseph M. DeSimone (born on May 16 1964) is an American inventor, chemist and entrepreneur. He is best known for being the 2008 recipient of the Lemelson- MIT Prize worth $500,000 as well as co-founder and the CEO of Carbon Carbon, the American technological company.

DeSimone is the winner of the 2015 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine; the 2014 IRI Medal; the 2014 Dickson Prize in Science; the 2014 American Chemical Society Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success; the 2012 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation, given through Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society to recognize and foster innovation in engineering and science; the 2010 AAAS Mentor Award to honor his efforts to increase the diversity of the Chemistry PhD research workforce; the 2009 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award; the 2009 North Carolina Award, the highest award the State of North Carolina can bestow to honor significant accomplishments from North people in the areas of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts and Public Service; the 2008 Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News & Observer; the 2007 Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research; the 2005 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention; the 2002 John Scott Award given to the Board of Directors of City Trusts, Philadelphia, presented in recognition of “the most deserving” men and women who’s inventions have contributed in an extraordinary ways towards the “comfort, welfare and happiness” of the world; the 2002 Engineering Excellence Award from DuPont; the 2002 Wallace H. Carothers Award from the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society; and the 2000 Oliver Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina. For 2019, DeSimone won the Wilhelm Exner Medal for Polymer Manufacturing.

DeSimone’s academic laboratory and the PRINT technology became a foundation for the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by the National Cancer Institute. DeSimone also co-founded Liquidia Technologies in 2004 based on PRINT.

In recent years DeSimone’s academic research group has been heavily focused on learning how to bring the precision, uniformity and mass production techniques associated with the fabrication of nanoscale features found in the microelectronics industry to the nanomedicine field for the fabrication and delivery of vaccines and therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of diseases. Developed in the DeSimone laboratory, the PRINT technology (Particle Replication in Non-Wetting Templates) is central to the group’s work.

DeSimone is a part of the National Academy of Medicine (2014), National Academy of Sciences (2012) as well as The National Academy of Engineering (2005). DeSimone is also an associate participant in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005).

Joseph DeSimone Net Worth

Joseph DeSimone is one of the richest Engineer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph DeSimone 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joseph DeSimone received his BS in Chemistry in 1986 at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1990 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

In the 1990s , he created an environmentally friendly manufacturing method that uses supercritical carbon dioxide in place water, and bio-persistent surfactants in the production of fluoropolymers, or high-performance plastics such as Teflon. In 2002, DeSimone together with the Dr. Richard Stack, a cardiologist at Duke University, co-founded Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS) to develop a fully bioabsorbableand drug-eluting stent. BVS was purchased from Guidant during 2003. The technology is currently being promoted via Abbott Vascular for the treatment of coronary arteriac disease.

DeSimone was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor in the U.S. for achievements related to technological progress, by President Barack Obama at the White House in May 2016. In 2017, Dr. DeSimone received the 22nd Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Employment.

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