Sullivan Wins NSF Career Award for Research on Therapeutic Drug Carriers
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 12:28
in Biology & Nature
Millicent Sullivan was a born engineer. As a youngster, she had a fascination with shapes and loved building things with Tinker Toys. Today, Sullivan, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware and Merck Faculty Fellow, is applying her knowledge and talents to an area critical to human health--she's building new materials for delivering healing drugs and gene therapies to diseased and damaged cells in the human body.