Andrew Tsourkas

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Andrew Tsourkas is a Professor and undergraduate chair of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997 from Cornell University, Master’s degree in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University joint PhD program in 2002. He has then conducted a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship in Cellular and Molecular Imaging in the Department of Radiology at Harvard University, before joining Penn in 2004. He is currently the Associate Director for the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine. He has over 80 peer-reviewed and invited publications and was a recipient of the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award and the National Science Foundation Career Award. In 2015, he was also elected as a Fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is an Inventor on over a dozen patents and has founded four biotechnology companies.