Joseph DeSimone

Joseph M. DeSimone (born May 16, 1964) is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon,[2] of which he served as CEO from 2014 until November 2019.[3]

Joe DeSimone
DeSimone, 2008
Born (1964-05-16) May 16, 1964
NationalityUnited States
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUrsinus College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
AwardsHeinz Award in Technology, Economy & Employment (2017)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013)
Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine (2015)
Lemelson–MIT Prize (2008)
AAAS Mentor Award (2010)
IRI Medal (2014)
Dickson Prize in Science (2014)
Harvey Prize (2020)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University
ThesisSynthesis of well-defined single and multiphase polymers using various living polymerization methods (1990)
Doctoral advisorJames E. McGrath
Notable studentsAndrew Ian Cooper (postdoc)[1]

Currently, DeSimone is the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine[4][5] in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University, where he is also Professor of Chemical Engineering.[6] He joined the faculty at Stanford in 2020.[7] In 2020, he was also elected to the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society.[8] DeSimone previously held a joint appointment as the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.[9]

DeSimone has published over 350 scientific articles and has over 200 issued patents in his name with over 200 patents pending. He was awarded the 2020 Harvey Prize for "significant contributions to materials science, chemistry, polymer science nano medicine, and 3D printing".[10]

Education

Joseph DeSimone received his BS in Chemistry in 1986 from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1990 from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.[11][12]

Career

DeSimone is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (2014),[13] National Academy of Sciences (2012),[14] and the National Academy of Engineering (2005).[15] He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005).[16]

External video
Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster?, TED Talks

In the 1990s, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he developed an environmentally friendly manufacturing process that relies on supercritical carbon dioxide instead of water and bio-persistent surfactants for the creation of fluoropolymers or high-performance plastics, such as Teflon.[17][18] In 2002 DeSimone, along with Dr. Richard Stack, a cardiologist at Duke University, co-founded Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS) to commercialize a fully bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent for the treatment of coronary artery disease.[19] BVS was acquired by Guidant in 2003.[20]

As a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, DeSimone and members of his academic laboratory also developed the nanoparticle fabrication technology, PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-Wetting Templates), leading DeSimone and students to co-found the company, Liquidia Technologies in 2004.[21] Liquidia develops PRINT particle-based medical treatments and became a publicly traded company in 2018.[22] At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the PRINT technology also became a foundation for the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by the National Cancer Institute.[23]

In 2015, DeSimone and colleagues published a paper in Science Magazine on their invention of a rapid polymer 3D printing technology, Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP).[24] The company, Carbon, which DeSimone co-founded, now develops printers with the CLIP technology.[25][26] The printers are used to make end-use parts and products in several industries,[27] including by the companies Adidas,[28][29] Resolution Medical,[30][31] and Ford.[32]

Awards and honors

DeSimone is the recipient of the 2000 Oliver Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina; the 2002 Engineering Excellence Award by DuPont; the 2002 Wallace H. Carothers Award from the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society; the 2002 John Scott Award presented by the Board of Directors of City Trusts, Philadelphia, given to "the most deserving" men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare and happiness" of mankind;[33] the 2005 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention; the 2007 Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research; the 2008 Lemelson–MIT Prize,[34] the 2009 North Carolina Award; the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award;[35] the 2010 AAAS Mentor Award in recognition of his efforts to advance diversity in the chemistry PhD workforce;[36] the 2012 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation;[37] the 2014 American Chemical Society Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success;[38] the 2014 Dickson Prize in Science;[39] the 2014 IRI Medal; and the 2015 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.[40]

DeSimone was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor in the U.S. for achievements related to technological progress, by President Barack Obama at the White House in May 2016.[41] In 2017, Dr. DeSimone received the 22nd Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Employment.[42] In 2019, DeSimone received the Wilhelm Exner Medal in Polymer Manufacturing.[43] Also in 2019, he was named the U.S. Entrepreneur Of The Year, National Overall Award winner by Ernst & Young.[44] For the years 2019-2020 he was awarded the Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel.[45] In 2021, he received the Charles Goodyear Medal[46] from the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.

References
  1. DeSimone, J. M.; Cooper, A. I.; Londono, J. D.; Wignall, G.; McClain, J. B.; Samulski, E. T.; Lin, J. S.; Dobrynin, A.; Rubinstein, M.; Burke, A. L. C.; Fréchet, J. M. J. (1997). "Extraction of a hydrophilic compound from water into liquid CO₂ using dendritic surfactants". Nature. 389 (6649): 368–371. Bibcode:1997Natur.389..368C. doi:10.1038/38706.
  2. Joseph DeSimone at TED
  3. Kolodny, Lora (2019-11-21). "Ellen Kullman takes the reins as CEO of Carbon, a 3D printing start-up worth over $2.5 billion". CNBC. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  4. University, Stanford (2020-10-09). "Report of the president: Appointments and promotions". Stanford News. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  5. "Stanford names first recipient of professorship dedicated to late radiologist Sanjiv 'Sam' Gambhir". www.healthimaging.com. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  6. University, Stanford (2020-10-09). "Report of the president: Appointments and promotions". Stanford News. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  7. "Carbon co-founder Dr. Joseph DeSimone joins Stanford University faculty » 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry". 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry. 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  8. "National Geographic Society Names Three New Trustees: Ellen Stofan, Joseph M. DeSimone and Rajiv Shah". National Geographic Society Newsroom. 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  9. "DeSimone Elected into National Academy of Sciences". NC State News. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  10. "Technion Harvey Prize: Honoring Pioneers in Chemical Engineering and Medical Sciences". Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
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  13. Institute of Medicine Elects 70 New Members, 10 Foreign Associates (October 20, 2014) Archived February 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  14. National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected (May 1, 2012)
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  18. Clabby, Catherine; October 3, North Carolina Health News; 2017 (2017-10-03). "What if DuPont Had Gone Green in North Carolina?". North Carolina Health News. Retrieved 2021-02-04.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  22. "Successful IPO Highlights Liquidia Technologies' Ambitious Upcoming 18 Months". BioSpace. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  23. JULIANO, R.L.; SUNNARBORG, S.; DESIMONE, J.; HAROON, Z. (January 2011). "The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence: Past Accomplishments and Future Perspectives". Nanomedicine (London, England). 6 (1): 19–24. doi:10.2217/nnm.10.142. ISSN 1743-5889. PMC 3712343. PMID 21182415.
  24. Tumbleston, John R.; Shirvanyants, David; Ermoshkin, Nikita; Janusziewicz, Rima; Johnson, Ashley R.; Kelly, David; Chen, Kai; Pinschmidt, Robert; Rolland, Jason P.; Ermoshkin, Alexander; Samulski, Edward T. (2015-03-20). "Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects". Science. 347 (6228): 1349–1352. doi:10.1126/science.aaa2397. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25780246.
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  33. "John Scott Award Recipients". John Scott Award Advisory Committee. Archived from the original on July 1, 2010. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
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  37. "Walston Chubb". www.sigmaxi.org. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
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  39. Dickson Prize in Science 2014
  40. Joseph DeSimone Receives $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.
  41. Ray Gronberg (2016-05-19). "Chemist DeSimone feted at White House". The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina). Retrieved 2016-05-25.
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  43. Bringing the Digital Revolution to Polymer Manufacturing, retrieved: 11. Sep. 2019 in Wilhelmexner.org.
  44. "Carbon Inc CEO Named Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 National Overall Award Winner". www.ey.com. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  45. Harvey Prize 2019-2020
  46. "Joseph DeSimone Is 2021 Charles Goodyear Medalist". IEC Daily. Lippencott and Peto. 19 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
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