Alexander V. Kabanov, PhD, DrSci, a UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy professor and director of the school’s Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, has been honored by the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Kabanov has been inducted into the institute’s College of Fellows – an honor that serves to recognize accomplished and distinguished engineering and medical school chairs, research directors, professors, innovators, and successful entrepreneurs.
Kabanov was nominated, reviewed, and elected to the college by peers and members of the college because of his work in the field of nanomedicine, according to the institute. In particular, he is being recognized for work on polymeric nanosystems for drug delivery.
In addition to serving as director of the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, Kabanov is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member, the Mescal Swaim Ferguson Distinguished Professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and co-director of the Carolina Institute for Nanomedicine.
A formal induction ceremony was held March 16 at the institute’s 2015 annual meeting for the 150 members of the College of Fellows Class of 2015.