The biennial Cecil
L. Brown Lectureship was established by NJ-ACS in 1969 to bring a
distinguished chemist to a local university in the North Jersey
area. Past recipients of this lectureship include seven Nobel
laureates as well as many other towering figures in chemistry.
Past Recipients
2009 Robert Langer
2006 Robin Hochstrasser
1998 Ronald Breslow
1996 Peter B. Dervan
1994 Dudley Hirschbach
1992 Kyriacos Nicolaou
1990 Joseph Laskowski
1988 Paul Bartlett
1986 Sir John Vane
1984 Alexander Rich
1982 Herbert C. Brown
1980 Melvin Calvin
1979 Leo Sternbach
1978 Robert Lawrence & Kurt Frisch
1976 Max Tischler -- Fall
1976 James Roth -- Spring
1975 Anthony M. Trozzolo
1974 Burt Christensen
1973 Linus Pauling
1972 Robert Reid
1970 Vladimir Prelog
1969 Paul Flory
The 2009 Lecturer is
Professor Robert Langer,
Institute Professor at MIT. His research spans a range of areas including drug delivery,
tissue engineering, stem cell research, biomaterials, and angiogenesis
inhibition. He has served as Chairman of the Food and Drug
Administration's SCIENCE Board, the FDA's highest advisory board.
He is also a member of both the National Academy of Science and the
National Academy of Engineering, and has received over 160 major
awards including the 2006 U.S. Medal of Science, the Charles Stark
Draper prize, and the 2008 Millennium Prize. In 2006, he was
inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; with over 600
issued and pending patents, he is one of the most prolific inventors
in the history of medicine.
The 2009 Cecil L. Brown Lecture will be held at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at the Biomedical Engineering Building Auditorium on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University, Piscataway.
The 2009 lecture is being presented in conjunction with
the Annual Chemistry Graduate Student Association Lecture of Rutgers University.
“Novel Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering”
by Professor Robert Langer
Abstract:
Approaches involving the synthesis and application of bioerodible
polymers to serve as implantable scaffolds for mammalian cells to
create new tissues and organs are being studied. This talk will
discuss the design of new materials in particular synthetic polymers
with specific ligands attached to them, photopolymerized materials,
shape memory degradable polymers, rubbery polymers and materials
with reversibly switching surfaces that may have applications in
these areas. We will also examine the use of materials coupled
with human embryonic stem cells or other cells, and the application
of these approaches to the creation of new tissues. This approach
has been used to create a variety of tissues such as liver, skin,
nerves, blood vessels, cartilage, heart muscle, and other tissues
in animals and humans.
There will be a reception following the lecture.
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Cecil L. Brown
This lectureship was named after Cecil L. Brown, who spent his
entire professional career at Esso (which later became Exxon) and
chaired NJ-ACS as well as the Petroleum Division of national ACS
in the 1950s. He was also the Chairman of the Esso Research Contributions
and Research Grants Committee. During his chairmanship some 400
grants were made to 60 colleges and universities. As an administrative
member of the Esso Education Foundation, he helped carry out a
special $1.5 million program for the improvement of science and
engineering teaching in New Jersey. He was a strong a proponent of
having world-class chemists visit and work with students. Through
the Cecil L. Brown Lecture, it is fitting that his name continues
to be associated with excellence in chemical education in our area.
Photos from the Cecil Brown Lecture of Feb 3, 2009
1. Bill Suits organizing the registration
2. NoJ-ACS Chair Joseph Potenza [right] with Cecil Brown Lecturer Robert Langer
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