Quick Facts
Biography
Vladimir Petrovich Torchilin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Торчилин, born 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and American biochemist, pharmacologist , and an expert in medical nanotechnology.
Since 1991 lives in the USA. Since 1993-1999 he was with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 he is with Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1998-2008 as Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and as of 2005, Distinguished Professor and as of 2013, University Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine of Northeastern University.
PhD, DSc, MS, Moscow State University
Scientific work
V.Torchilin has published over 350 original papers, over 150 reviews, wrote and edited 10 books and holds over 40 patents. According to Google Scholar, his H index is 84 with more than 35,000 citations. Times Higher Education ranked V.Torchilin as #2 among world top scientists in pharmacology for the years 2001-2010.
Awards
- 1982 Lenin Prize in Science and Technology
- 2002 Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
- 2002 Member, European Academy of Science
- 2003 Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
- 2005 Research Achievements in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Award from the AAPS
- 2007 Research Achievements Award from the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress
- 2009 International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award
- 2010 Founders Award, Controlled Release Society
- 2010 Fellow, Controlled Release Society
- 2012 Alec Bangham Life Achievement Award
- 2013 Journal of Drug Targeting Life Achievement Award
- 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal in Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences
Prose
In addition to his scientific work, Torchilin publishes essays and short stories in Russian and American magazines and newspapers.
Books
- 1991: Там, где кончается наука ("Where the Science Ends", about pseudoscience)
- 1995: Странные рассказы, Moscow (short stories)
- 1996: Повезло, New York (short stories)
- 2000: Время между, St. Petersburg, Пушкинский Фонд (Pushkin Foundation), ISBN 5-89803-044-1. (short stories and essays)
- 2006 Кружок друзей Автандила, Moscow, Наука-Культура (hard cover; novels, short stories)
- 2012 Лабух, Moscow, Аграф, ISBN 978-5-7784-0429-8 (hardcover; novels, short stories)