Justin Hanes, Ph.D.

Professor
Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery and Oncology
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Director, Center for Nanomedicine at Johns Hopkins

After losing his grandmother to cancer when he was 10, Dr. Justin Hanes has dedicated his life to discovering better ways to deliver medicine to effectively treat disease. As faculty member with appointments in the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Public Health, he has been able to make significant strides toward his goals.
 
Several products have been tested in human clinical trials based on his colleagues and his drug delivery inventions. He has given more than 100 invited lectures and has received numerous honors and awards, including being named among the “World’s Top 100 Young Innovators and Leaders in Technology and Business,” by the MIT Technology Review in 2003. He was also one of two academicians selected by the US National Academy of Sciences to represent the United States in the Global Conference of Young Leaders at the World Economic Forum in 2008. Recently, Dr. Hanes founded Kala Pharmaceuticals, where he serves on the board of directors and as chair of the scientific advisory board.

He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from UCLA in 1991 and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT in 1996. He did postdoctoral training in oncology and neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1996 to 1998.

He is a professor of ophthalmology in the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, with secondary appointments in biomedical engineering, chemical & biomolecular engineering, environmental health sciences, neurosurgery and oncology. He is the director of the Center for Nanomedicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and serves on the executive committee for the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins.

He will discuss Nanotechnology: The Small Science with Big Expectations for Medicine at A Woman's Journey in Session I, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.