Yoon Yeo, Ph.D.

Prof. Yoon Yeo is the Lillian Barboul Thomas Professor and Associate Department Head of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics at Purdue University. She built expertise in pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery through Ph.D. training in protein microencapsulation at Purdue University (2003) and post-doc training in hydrogel-based biomaterials at MIT (2004-2006). As a faculty member at Purdue, Prof. Yeo leads a research program specializing in immunomodulatory formulations for cancer immunotherapy and anti-inflammatory applications, intracellular delivery of gene therapeutics and peptide antibiotics, new methods of delivering anticancer drugs, and long-acting drug delivery systems, with the support of the NIH, NSF, and industry. She has authored 128 peer-reviewed papers, which have received >12000 citations. She received the NSF CAREER award (2011), New Investigator Awards from the AAPS (2009), and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2008). Prof. Yeo is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS, 2019) and the Controlled Release Society (CRS, 2022) and currently serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release and for the CRS Board of Directors (2023-2026).