Mark R. Prausnitz PhD

Mark Prausnitz is Regents’ Professor and J. Erskine Love, Jr. Chair of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned a BS degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. degree from MIT, both in chemical engineering. Dr. Prausnitz and colleagues carry out research on drug delivery using microneedles, lasers, ionic liquids, and other microdevices for transdermal, ocular, and intracellular delivery of drugs and vaccines. Dr. Prausnitz teaches courses on engineering calculations and pharmaceuticals. He has published almost 300 journal articles and has co-founded five start-up companies including Micron Biomedical and Clearside Biomedical.