Nanotech Seminar Series

Ruth Duncan is Professor of Cell Biology and Drug Delivery at the Welsh School of Pharmacy Cardiff University where she directs the Centre for Polymer Therapeutics. She established the UK Cancer Research Campaign's Polymer Controlled Drug Delivery Group at Keele University, UK in the 1980's before joining Pharmacia, Milan as Head of New Technologies. On returning to academia she established the Centre for Polymer Therapeutics at the London School of Pharmacy and relocated to Cardiff in 2000. Throughout she has maintained an interest in the rational for design of polymer therapeutics suitable for transfer into clinical testing. She has produced more than 250 articles, reviews and patents, and her work has been recognised via awards including the Pfizer Prize, Hlasek Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Controlled Release Society Young Investigator Award, The Royal Society for Chemistry Interdisciplinary Award and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Monika-Kutzner Prize for Innovation in Cancer Research. She is also an elected member of the Mainz Academy for Science and Literature and in 2004 was Chair of the Steering Committee responsible for the European Science Foundation's Forward Look on Nanomedicine.