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Kam W. Leong

Kam W. Leong PhD, BSCHE

Biotechnology, Neuroscience
New York, New York, United States of America

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Kam W. Leong holds the James B. Duke Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Pratt School of Engineering of Duke University, at which he also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his PhD, also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Pennsylvania. He then ventured into drug delivery research as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Robert Langer at MIT, where he helped develop the biodegradable polyanhydrides as a drug carrier for brain tumor therapy.
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