Biography:

Vladimir Torchilin got his M.S, Ph.D., and D.Sc. from the Moscow State University and serves currently as a University Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston. He has published more than 400 papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 13 books, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 60,000 citations of his papers with H-index of 111. He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies and Drug Delivery, Co-Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and on the Editorial Boards of many journals. He received more than $30 M from the government and industry in research funding. He has multiple honors and awards and in 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.