W. Mark Saltzman
Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering; Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Departments & Organizations
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Developmental Therapeutics
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program
Global Health Initiative: Information & Biotechnology
Center for RNA Science and Medicine, Yale
Cellular & Molecular Physiology: Physiology and Integrative Medical Biology Track | Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Liver Center
Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center
T32 Mentors
Developmental Therapeutics
Research Interests
Bio-compatible polymers, drug delivery systems more...
Selected Publications
- Woodrow KA, Cu Y, Booth CJ, Saucier-Sawyer J, Wood MJ, and Saltzman WM. Intravaginal gene silencing using biodegradable nanoparticles densely loaded with small-interfering RNA, Nature Materials 8:526-533 (2009).
- Liu J, Jiang Z, Zhang S, and Saltzman WM. Poly(omega-pentadecalactone-co-butylene-co-succinate) nanoparticles as biodegradable carriers for camptothecin delivery, Biomaterials 30:5707-5719 (2009).
- Cartiera MS, Johnson KM, Rajendran V, Caplan MJ, and Saltzman WM. The uptake and intracellular fate of PLGA nanoparticles in epithelial cells, Biomaterials 30:2790-2798 (2009).
Articles
Autumn 2007
A generational divide, biomedical engineering and a new chapter in organ transplantation
When we were looking for a writer to explore a generational trend—the desire of young doctors to balance their personal...
Autumn 2007
DNA Vaccines: Methods in Molecular Medicine
edited by W. Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and...
Summer 2002
Yale sets its sights on biomedical engineering
In 1996, when President Richard C. Levin laid out his vision for the University’s future in an essay titled “Preparing...
Winter 2007
University hopes to build on success in campaign for “Yale Tomorrow”
Nearly a decade after the close of its last major fund-raising campaign, Yale has begun a five-year drive to raise $3...
Spring 2004
Biomedical engineering becomes a department, uniting several disciplines
In eight years, biomedical engineering at Yale has grown from a fledgling undergraduate major to the university’s...
Spring 2012
Gene therapy takes a step forward with a synthetic nanoparticle
The particles injected into the tail of a lab mouse course through the animal’s veins, eluding immune surveillance as...
Autumn 2009
Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., Michael Levene, Ph.D.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation awarded $125,000 in April to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman, Ph.D., chair and...
Spring 2012
Tissue from the lab mends a broken heart
Angela Irizarry was still in her mother’s womb when tests revealed that one of her heart’s two ventricles wasn’t...
Autumn 2007
The gospel according to Langer
Three Yale faculty members learned bioengineering by working alongside a legendary MIT professor who believes in...
Autumn 2009
Nanoparticles loaded with siRNAs are new vehicle for silencing genes in pathogens
During the past 10 years researchers have puzzled over how best to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules,...
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