Rate My Professor W. Mark Saltzman

Saltzman's research in biomedical engineering centers on drug delivery, biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering, developing biocompatible polymeric materials for controlled release of drugs, proteins, and genes to improve medical therapies, including treatments for brain tumors, skin cancer, reproductive health protection, and gene editing. He has authored three influential textbooks: Drug Delivery: Engineering Principles for Drug Therapy (Oxford University Press, 2001), Tissue Engineering: Engineering Principles for the Design of Replacement Organs and Tissues (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology, second edition (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His over 350 research papers include highly cited works such as "Synthetic DNA delivery systems" (Nature Biotechnology, 2000) and "MicroRNA silencing for cancer therapy targeted to the tumour microenvironment" (Nature, 2015). Saltzman's contributions have advanced clinical translations in organ transplantation and nanoparticle therapies. He has received the Founders Award from the Controlled Release Society (2017), election to the National Academy of Engineering (2018) and National Academy of Medicine (2014), Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (2010), and numerous other honors including the Sheffield Teaching Prize from Yale (2009).