Professor Peixuan Guo
Sylvan Frank Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
The Ohio State University
Dr. Peixuan Guo, a pioneer of RNA nanotechnology, has held three endowed chair positions at three different prestigious universities, and currently is the Sylvan G. Frank Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and the director of the Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine at The Ohio State University. He is the president of the International Society of RNA Nanotech and Nanomedicine. He received his Ph.D. from U Minnesota in 1987 and conducted his postdoc at NIH under Bernard Moss. He joined Purdue University in 1990, tenured in 1993 and became a full professor in 1997, honored as a Purdue Distinguished Faculty Scholar in 1998. He served as the Director of the NIH Nanomedcine Develoment Center (NDC) from 2006-2011, was the Director of NCI Cancer Nanotech Platform Partnership Program from 2012-2017. To date, Dr. Guo invented 70 patents (13 granted and 57 in Provisional and PCT).