Siegwart Research Group

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Dr. Daniel J. Siegwart

Daniel Siegwart is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Biochemistry.

His research program is focused on developing advanced polymeric systems with precise control over macromolecular architecture, order, and responsiveness for applications in drug delivery, bioengineering, and cancer.

Daniel was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sponsored by a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award in the labs of Institute Professor Robert Langer and Associate Professor Daniel Anderson.

He obtained a B.S. in Biochemistry from Lehigh University in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). During his doctoral thesis work, supervised by Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, he studied Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) for the synthesis of functional polymers for various applications. He received the Joseph A. Solomon Memorial Fellowship in Chemistry at CMU and was a National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellow at The University of Tokyo in 2006, working in the laboratory of Professor Kazunori Kataoka.


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