Volkmar Weissig
Midwestern University, USA
Biography
Volkmar Weissig is a Tenured Full Professor of Pharmacology and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Co-Director of the Nanomedicine Center of Excellence in Translational Cancer Research at Midwestern University Glendale, AZ, USA. Dr. Weissig holds 16 patents and he has published over 100 research papers, review articles and book chapters, mostly in the area of nanodrugdelivery systems. He also edited and published 8 books. Since the late 1990s he has pioneered the development of vesicular nanocarriers for the delivery of biologically active molecules to mitochondria within living mammalian cells in vitro and in vivo. In 2009 he was inducted into the World Technology Network as a Fellow and in 2014 Dr. Weissig was elected Inaugural President of the World Mitochondria Society.