Editor’s Biography
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Marc A. Ilies Dr. Marc A. Ilies is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, USA. His research interests lie in the broadly defined area of bio-organic and medicinal chemistry/chemical biology at membrane interfaces, where he combines heterocyclic chemistry and drug design, materials sciences and pharmaceutical sciences to generate novel therapeutic entities with a high therapeutic index. Dr. Ilies is particularly interested in pyridinium derivatives, their synthesis, physicochemical and biological properties, with a focus on their use in drug and gene delivery systems and towards the generation of novel biomarkers and theranostic systems. Towards supra-molecular chemistry, materials sciences, and nanotechnology, his group is active towards synthesis, self-assembling, physicochemical and biological properties of assemblies of amphiphilic molecules of different molecular weights and packing parameters (surfactants, gemini surfactants, lipophilic oligomeric surfactants, lipids, dendrons, polymers) and in their interfacial engineering for controlling the above-mentioned properties, drug and gene loading and delivery, enzymatic degradation and toxicity. Other interests include tumor biochemistry and impact of hypoxia in tumor development and invasiveness. Dr. Ilies authored more than 65 publications, which have been cited over 2200 times, with an H index of 25. He teaches graduate-level courses in Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Advanced Drug and Gene Delivery Systems, and he is a member of the editorial board of four peer-reviewed journals on these topics. Dr. Ilies chaired several sessions dedicated to different aspects related with the use of self-assembled systems in drug and nucleic acid delivery systems within the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Besides ACS, he is an active member of AAPS, AACP, ASGCT and Rho Chi Honor Society.
© 2017 American Chemical Society Ilies; Control of Amphiphile Self-Assembling at the Molecular Level: Supra-Molecular Assemblies with Tuned ... ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2017.
