Vladimir Torchilin

Vladimir Torchilin
Born1946 (age 79–80)
Moscow, Soviet Union
EducationMoscow State University (MSc 1968; PhD 1971; DSc 1981)
Known forLiposomes, polymeric micelles and pharmaceutical nanocarriers; drug delivery and targeting
AwardsLenin Prize (1982); Blaise Pascal Medal (2013); Clarivate Citation Laureate (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry; pharmacology; medical nanotechnology; drug delivery
WorkplacesNortheastern University (1998–2026; Professor Emeritus from 2026); Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital

Vladimir Petrovich Torchilin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Торчилин; born 1946) is a Soviet-born American biochemist, pharmacologist and expert in medical nanotechnology. He was University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine at Northeastern University in Boston, where he served from 1998 to 2026, and has been Professor Emeritus since 2026. Before joining Northeastern he was an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School.

Torchilin has published more than 650 scientific papers and reviews, written and edited 15 books and holds more than 40 patents. According to Google Scholar, his papers have received more than 105,000 citations, with an h-index of 142; these figures change over time.

In 2011 Times Higher Education ranked him second among the world's top scientists in pharmacology and toxicology for 2000–2010, a list based on publication counts and citation data. In 2021 an Elsevier/Stanford analysis ranked him as the highest-cited of more than 130,000 researchers ranked in pharmacology and pharmacy. He was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2023 and an inaugural Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS in 2024. He is also a writer and a member of the Union of Moscow Writers.

Early life and education

Torchilin was born in Moscow, then in the Soviet Union, in 1946. He received a Master of Science from Moscow State University in 1968, and his PhD in 1971 and DSc in 1981 from the same university. In the Soviet Union he worked at the Institute of Experimental Cardiology of the National Cardiology Research Center, on the polymeric modification of thrombolytic enzymes. In 1982 he received the Lenin Prize of the USSR in science and technology. He emigrated to the United States in 1990.

Career

In 1991 Torchilin joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as head of the Chemistry Program at the Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research and associate professor of radiology. From 1998 he was at Northeastern University, where he chaired the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1998–2008), was Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (from 2012) and directed the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine (from 2005). He retired from the directorship and became Professor Emeritus in 2026.

Torchilin also led Northeastern's Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine, which was funded by a five-year, $13.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. His work helped Northeastern become the first non-Ivy League university to receive a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence grant.

Research

Torchilin's research concerns liposomes, lipid-core micelles, biomedical polymers, drug delivery and targeting, pharmaceutical nanocarriers and experimental cancer therapy and immunology. His most-cited papers include a 2005 review of liposomes as pharmaceutical carriers in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and later reviews of micellar and multifunctional nanocarriers.

Editorial and professional service

Torchilin is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. He is also Editor of the Jenny Stanford Series on Biomedical Nanotechnology, Co-Editor of the Wiley series Advances in Pharmaceutical Technologies and Associate Editor of Biomedical Microdevices. He serves on the editorial boards of Bioconjugate Chemistry, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews and other journals in drug delivery, nanomedicine and pharmaceutical sciences. He was Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery from 2003 to 2023 and Review Editor of the Journal of Controlled Release from 2010 to 2023. He was President of the Controlled Release Society in 2005–2006, and has mentored more than 50 PhD students.

Awards and honours

Literary work and collecting

Torchilin is a member of the Union of Moscow Writers. His short stories have been published in literary magazines in the USSR since the early 1980s and, after 1990, in Russian-language literary magazines in Russia and the United States. He is the author of nine books of short stories in Russian, published in Russia and the United States, and of a book of verse published in Germany in 2026. His first book in English, The Netsuke from San Francisco, was published by Austin Macauley Publishers in 2024. He is also an art and book collector, and paintings from his collections have been shown at multiple exhibitions.

Personal life

Torchilin lives in Boston with his wife, Vera. They have one daughter and three grandchildren.

Books

Scientific books

Literary works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Vladimir P. Torchilin Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine. Boston: School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Health Sciences. "Vladimir Torchilin". Faculty directory.
  3. 1 2 3 Torchilin, Vladimir P. (2024). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Northeastern University School of Pharmacy.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Interview with a Luminary: Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc". Controlled Release Society.
  5. 1 2 "Vladimir Torchilin". Google Scholar (Author profile).
  6. ↑ Times Higher Education. "Top scientists in pharmacology and toxicology" (Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators data, 2000–2010).
  7. 1 2 Northeastern University. "Torchilin among most-cited world scientists". Northeastern News.
  8. ↑ "Bouvé College Distinguished Professor Recognized as Top-Cited Researcher in Category". Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences. 10 December 2021. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  9. 1 2 Clarivate (19 September 2023). "Clarivate Unveils Citation Laureates 2023 – Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class".
  10. 1 2 ScholarGPS. "Vladimir P. Torchilin" (Scholar profile).
  11. 1 2 3 4 AbeBooks. "The Netsuke from San Francisco" (author biography and publication details).
  12. 1 2 "The Lenin Prizes for 1982". The Current Digest of the Soviet Press. 34 (16). University of Virginia: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies: 14. 1982.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Northeastern Global News (16 August 2023). "Biochemist, author, art collector, Soviet émigré. How Vladimir Torchilin became a renowned scientist on both sides of the Iron Curtain".
  14. 1 2 3 "Vladimir Torchilin Review Editor". Journal of Controlled Release. Boston: Elsevier.
  15. ↑ Bentham Science. "Current Drug Discovery Technologies: Editorial Board".
  16. ↑ Bentham Science. "Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Editorial Board".
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Torchilin, Vladimir P. Short biography and lists of awards and books, supplied by the subject; unpublished.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 HSTalks. "Prof. Vladimir P. Torchilin".
  19. ↑ "Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc". AIMBE Fellowship director. Washington: The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2002. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  20. ↑ "Member Profile". European Academy of Sciences. Brussels: European Academy of Sciences 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  21. ↑ "AAPS Announces 2005 Award Winners". Nashville: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Pharmaceutical Online. 8 November 2005. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  22. ↑ "Founders Award Recipients". Controlled Release Society. Mount Laurel: Controlled Release Society 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  23. ↑ Akhtar, Saghir (December 2013). "In honour of Professor Vladimir Torchilin, Recipient of the Journal of Drug Targeting's Life-Time Achievement Award for 2013". Journal of Drug Targeting. 21 (10): 885. doi:10.3109/1061186X.2013.837621. PMID 24033001. S2CID 9332515.
  24. ↑ Materials Research Society of Serbia (15 February 2024). "Nomination for the 2024 MRS-Serbia Award: Dr Vladimir Torchilin" (PDF).
  25. ↑ "Blaise Pascal Medals EURASC Awardees". European Academy of Sciences. Liège: European Academy of Sciences 2022. 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  26. ↑ Materials Research Society of Serbia. "2024 MRS-Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering".
  27. ↑ "Владимир Торчилин".
  28. 1 2 Hoopla / library catalogue (2024). "The Netsuke From San Francisco". Austin Macauley Publishers.
  29. ↑ Torchilin, Vladimir; Amiji, Mansoor M (2011). Handbook of materials for nanomedicine. Pan Stanford series on biomedical nanotechnology. Vol. 1. Singapore: Pan Stanford. ISBN 9789814267557. OCLC 770813246.
  30. ↑ Torčilin, Vladimir P, ed. (July 2020). Handbook of materials for nanomedicine : polymeric nanomaterials. Jenny Stanford series on biomedical nanotechnology. Vol. 1. Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing. ISBN 9781003045113. OCLC 1226113508.
  31. ↑ Torčilin, Vladimir P, ed. (2020). Handbook of materials for nanomedicine : metal based and other. Jenny Stanford series on biomedical nanotechnology. Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781000067132. OCLC 1145591940.
  32. ↑ Torčilin, Vladimir P (2020). Torčilin, Vladimir P (ed.). Handbook of materials for nanomedicine : lipid-based and inorganic nanomaterials. Jenny Stanford series on biomedical nanotechnology. Vol. 6. Singapore: Jenny Standord Publishing. ISBN 9789814800914. OCLC 1263215249.
  33. ↑ Torchilin, V. P. (1991). Tam, gde konchaet︠s︡ia nauka. Besedy o mire i cheloveke (in Russian). Moskva: Izd-vo polit. lit. ISBN 9785250012300. OCLC 28484727.
  34. ↑ Torchilin, V. P.; Торчилин, В. П. (2012). Labukh : povesti i rasskazy (in Russian). Moskva: Agraf. ISBN 9785778404298. OCLC 815723847.