COLLEGE STATION, Texas— Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering Dr. G. Kemble Bennett has appointed holder of the Charles D. Holland ’53 Professorship in Chemical Engineering.

Pishko is head of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and also heads the Chemical Engineering Division of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, the engineering research agency of the State of Texas and a member of The Texas A&M University System.

Pishko, a former faculty member at Texas A&M, returned after serving at Pennsylvania State University for six years. At Penn State, he was a Distinguished Professor of chemical engineering, with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Over the past 15 years, Pishko has co-authored more than 90 peer-reviewed research publications and developed 19 U.S. patents. Pishko’s research interests include microfabricated biosensors, neovascularization of implanted biomaterials and “smart” drug delivery systems. His research with the Materials Research Institute (MRI) at Penn State centered on the integration of biological sensing tools in medical, pharmaceutical, defense and food safety fields. An implanted glucose sensor developed by Pishko is currently undergoing FDA trials for approval in the management of diabetes.

For his research, he has received an NSF CAREER award, was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and was elected to the College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has also received the Mary Jane Kugel award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and the Outstanding Young Scientist award from the Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology. Since 2003, Pishko has served as an associate editor and a member of the editorial board for the IEEE Sensors Journal. Pishko has previously served on the editorial boards for Sensor Letters and Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology.

Pishko holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Contact: Dr. Michael Pishko at mpishko@tamu.edu, or Lauren Kern at laurenkern@tees.tamus.edu.

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