Dr. Yoon Yeo is a Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy) at Purdue University. Dr. Yeo earned a B.S. in Pharmacy and an M.S. in Microbial Chemistry from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from Purdue University. Dr. Yeo was awarded the 2011 NSF CAREER Award and the 2009 AAPS New Investigator Grant Award in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technologies. Dr. Yeo's research focuses on nanoparticle engineering for drug delivery to solid tumors, intracellular delivery of peptide antibiotics and gene therapeutics, functional biomaterials for immunomodulation, and local drug delivery. Dr. Yeo is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the Controlled Release Society. She is also a deputy Editor in Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release.
