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 and post-doc training in hydrogel-based biomaterials. At Purdue, Prof. Yeo leads a research program specializing in immunomodulatory formulations for antiinflammatory applications and cancer immunotherapy, 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 135 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 68 and 14000 citations. She received the NSF CAREER award (2011), New Investigator Awards from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS, 2009), and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2008). Prof. Yeo is a Fellow of the 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).
Yoon Yeo, PhD
