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BOSTON — Consumers have environmentally friendlier plastics, patients in clinical trials have a new device to treat clogged arteries and we all might get disease-treating nanoparticles inside our bodies, thanks in part to the work of one man, the winner of this year’s Lemelson-MIT Prize.
The $500,000 prize to chemistry professor Joseph DeSi mone was to be announced today at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The prize recognizes people who turn their ideas into inventions that help change the world.
DeSimone, 44, has appointments as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina State University.
