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Jan 27, 1940 84 years old
Czech chemist
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About Jindich Kopeek
- Jindrich (Henry) Kopecek (born January 27, 1940, in Strakonice, Czech Republic) is a polymer chemist and pharmaceutical scientist notable as one of the pioneers in drug delivery He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah in Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Bioengineering, and has been an editorial board member of 16 international scientific journals, and a fellow of several scientific societies.Dr.
- Kopecek has made significant contribution to the developments of biomedical applicable hydrogels and polymeric drug conjugates.
- He was a member of the research group at Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences where polymeric soft contact lenses were invented.
- His lab designed and developed N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymer-drug conjugates as a lysosomal delivery vehicle to cancer cells.
- The concept of using poly(HPMA) as polymeric drug carriers has opened a new perspective in modern pharmaceutical science, and developed into the first polymer-drug conjugates entering clinical trials.
- For these contributions, he was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
