Joseph DeSimone
2012 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation

Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive the 2012 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation. DeSimone is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is also an adjunct member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. DeSimone has published over 260 scientific articles and has over 115 issued patents in his name with over 120 patents pending. In 2005 DeSimone was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. DeSimone has received 40 major awards and recognitions including the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award; the 2009 North Carolina Award; and the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation.