Joseph DeSimone
{{Short description|American chemist, inventor and entrepreneur}}
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| workplaces = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University
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| alma_mater = Ursinus College, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
| thesis_title = Synthesis of well-defined single and multiphase polymers using various living polymerization methods
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| awards = Heinz Award in Technology, Economy & Employment (2017)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2013)
Lemelson–MIT Prize (2008)
IRI Medal (2014)
Dickson Prize in Science (2014)
Harvey Prize (2020)
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Joseph M. DeSimone (born May 16, 1964) is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon, of which he was CEO from 2014 until November 2019.{{Cite web|last=Kolodny|first=Lora|date=November 21, 2019|title=Ellen Kullman takes the reins as CEO of Carbon, a 3D printing start-up worth over $2.5 billion|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/21/ellen-kullman-named-ceo-of-3d-printing-company-carbon.html|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=CNBC|language=en}}
Currently, DeSimone is the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine{{Cite web|last=University|first=Stanford|date=October 9, 2020|title=Report of the president: Appointments and promotions|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/09/report-president-appointments-promotions-5/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Stanford News|language=en}} in the department of radiology at Stanford University, where he is also professor of chemical engineering.{{Cite web|last=University|first=Stanford|date=October 9, 2020|title=Report of the president: Appointments and promotions|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/09/report-president-appointments-promotions-5/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Stanford News|language=en}} He joined the faculty at Stanford in 2020.{{Cite web|date=September 2, 2020|title=Carbon co-founder Dr. Joseph DeSimone joins Stanford University faculty |url=https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/carbon-co-founder-joseph-desimone-stanford/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry|language=en-US}} In 2020, he was also elected to the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society.{{Cite web|date=August 11, 2020|title=National Geographic Society Names Three New Trustees: Ellen Stofan, Joseph M. DeSimone and Rajiv Shah|url=https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2020/08/11/national-geographic-society-names-three-new-trustees-ellen-stofan-joseph-m-desimone-and-rajiv-shah/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=National Geographic Society Newsroom|language=en-US}} DeSimone previously held a joint appointment as the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.{{Cite web|title=DeSimone Elected into National Academy of Sciences|url=https://news.ncsu.edu/2012/05/wms-desimone-nas/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=NC State News|language=en-US}}
Education
DeSimone received his BS in chemistry in 1986 from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and his PhD in chemistry in 1990 from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.{{Cite web |url=http://desimone-group.chem.unc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=65 |title=DeSimone Research Group: People: DeSimone |access-date=May 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313235850/http://www.desimone-group.chem.unc.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=65 |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/desimone/ |title=UNC Faculty: DeSimone |access-date=January 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510040605/http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/desimone/ |archive-date=May 10, 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Career
DeSimone is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (2014),[http://www.iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/2014-New-Members.aspx Institute of Medicine Elects 70 New Members, 10 Foreign Associates (October 20, 2014)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214173610/http://iom.edu/Global/News%20Announcements/2014-New-Members.aspx |date=February 14, 2015 }} National Academy of Sciences (2012),[https://web.archive.org/web/20120504002407/http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2012_05_01_NAS_Election.html National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected (May 1, 2012)] and the National Academy of Engineering (2005).{{cite web |url=http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/30179.aspx |title=NAE Members Directory – Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone |publisher=U.S. National Academy of Engineering |access-date=September 16, 2011}} He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005).{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter D |url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterD.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=September 16, 2011}}
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In the 1990s, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he developed an environmentally friendly manufacturing process that relies on supercritical carbon dioxide instead of water and bio-persistent surfactants for the creation of fluoropolymers or high-performance plastics, such as Teflon.{{Cite web|last=EarthSky.org|date=September 12, 2011|title=Joseph DeSimone, The Inventor Of Clean Teflon, On Invention In The 21st Century|url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1779648/joseph-desimone-inventor-clean-teflon-invention-21st-century|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Fast Company|language=en-US}}{{cite web | title=What if DuPont Had Gone Green in North Carolina? | website=North Carolina Health News | date=October 3, 2017 | url=http://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2017/10/03/what-if-dupont-had-gone-green-genx-north-carolina/ | access-date=December 13, 2021}} In 2002 DeSimone, along with Richard Stack, a cardiologist at Duke University, co-founded Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS) to commercialize a fully bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent for the treatment of coronary artery disease.{{Cite web|date=August 18, 2016|title=Dr. DeSimone Receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation |url=https://www.cbe.ncsu.edu/blog/2016/08/18/dr-desimone-receives-the-national-medal-of-technology-and-innovation/|access-date=February 4, 2021}}
As a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, DeSimone and members of his academic laboratory also developed the nanoparticle fabrication technology, PRINT (Particle Replication in Non-Wetting Templates), leading DeSimone and students to co-found the company Liquidia Technologies in 2004.{{Cite web|title=Joseph DeSimone |url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/joseph-desimone|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=lemelson.mit.edu}} Liquidia develops PRINT particle-based medical treatments and became a publicly traded company in 2018.{{Cite web|title=Successful IPO Highlights Liquidia Technologies' Ambitious Upcoming 18 Months|url=https://www.biospace.com/article/successful-ipo-highlights-liquidia-technologies-ambitious-upcoming-18-months/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=BioSpace|language=en-US}} At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the PRINT technology also became a foundation for the Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by the National Cancer Institute.{{cn|date=October 2024}}
In 2015, DeSimone and colleagues published a paper in Science Magazine on their invention of a rapid polymer 3D printing technology, Continuous Liquid Interface Production (CLIP).{{cn|date=October 2024}} The company, Carbon, which DeSimone co-founded, now develops printers with the CLIP technology.{{Cite web|date=June 19, 2020|title=DLS 3D Printing Technology |url=https://www.carbon3d.com/3d-printer-models-carbon/our-technology/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Carbon3D|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=June 18, 2019|title=How Continuous Liquid Interface Production is Speeding Up the 3D Process|url=https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=18176|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=AZoM.com|language=en}} The printers are used to make end-use parts and products in several industries,{{Cite web|title=New Technology Transforms 3D Printing|url=https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/new-clip-technology-transforms-3d-printing|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=www.asme.org|language=en}} including by the companies Adidas,{{Cite web|title=Adidas Uses Carbon's 3D Printing to Mass-Produce Futurecraft 4D Shoes by MichaelMH|url=https://www.engineering.com/story/adidas-uses-carbons-3d-printing-to-mass-produce-futurecraft-4d-shoes|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Engineering.com}}{{Cite web|date=March 28, 2019|title=adidas unveils Carbon 3D printed shoe in collaboration with Stella McCartney|url=https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/adidas-unveils-carbon-3d-printed-shoe-in-collaboration-with-stella-mccartney-152262/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=3D Printing Industry|language=en-US}} Resolution Medical,{{Cite web|date=September 26, 2018|title=Resolution Medical adopts Carbon 3D printing tech for medical device production » 3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry|url=https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/resolution-medical-carbon-medical/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=3D Printing Media Network - The Pulse of the AM Industry|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=April 8, 2020|title=Carbon partners with Adidas, Resolution Medical on COVID-19 response|url=https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/carbon-partners-with-adidas-resolution-medical-on-covid-19-response/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=Medical Design and Outsourcing|language=en-US}} and Ford.{{Cite web|date=January 17, 2019|title=Carbon and Ford Expanding Collaboration for Automotive 3D Printing Solutions|url=https://3dprint.com/234137/carbon-ford-expand-collaboration/|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=3DPrint.com }} Recently, DeSimone has also been involved in the digital fabrication space using computational design to speed up the former method.{{Cite web|date=September 28, 2022|title=Injection continuous liquid interface production of 3D objects|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3917|access-date=January 22, 2023|website=science.org {{!}} The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing|language=en-US}}
= Awards and honors =
DeSimone is the recipient of the 2002 John Scott Award presented by the Board of Directors of City Trusts, Philadelphia, given to "the most deserving" men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare and happiness" of mankind;{{cite web|url=http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/johnscottaward%28full%29.html |title=John Scott Award Recipients |publisher=John Scott Award Advisory Committee |access-date=March 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701201455/http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/johnscottaward%28full%29.html |archive-date=July 1, 2010 }} the 2008 Lemelson–MIT Prize,{{Cite web|date=June 27, 2008|title=Winners' Circle: Joseph DeSimone|url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-desimone.html|access-date=February 4, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627200028/http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-desimone.html|archive-date=June 27, 2008}} the 2009 North Carolina Award; the 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award;{{cite web |title=2009 Pioneer Award Recipients |url=https://commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients09.aspx |work=NIH Director's Pioneer Award Program |publisher=National Institutes of Health |access-date=September 16, 2011 |archive-date=July 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729150924/https://commonfund.nih.gov/404 |url-status=dead }} the 2014 Dickson Prize in Science;[https://www.cmu.edu/dickson-prize/past-winners/index.html Dickson Prize in Science 2014] and the 2014 IRI Medal.
DeSimone was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor in the U.S. for achievements related to technological progress, by President Barack Obama at the White House in May 2016.{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com/news/chemist-desimone-feted-at-white-house/article_6f498d4e-1e10-11e6-91d3-fb50290c8a24.html|title=Chemist DeSimone feted at White House|author=Ray Gronberg|date=May 19, 2016|newspaper=The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)|access-date=May 25, 2016}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2017, Dr. DeSimone received the 22nd Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Employment.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Heinz Awards - Joseph DeSimone|url=http://www.heinzawards.net/recipients/joseph-desimone|access-date=|website=}} In 2019, DeSimone received the Wilhelm Exner Medal in Polymer Manufacturing.[https://www.wilhelmexner.org/exner-lectures/exner-lectures-2019/ Bringing the Digital Revolution to Polymer Manufacturing], retrieved: 11. Sep. 2019 in Wilhelmexner.org. Also in 2019, he was named the U.S. Entrepreneur Of The Year, National Overall Award winner by Ernst & Young.{{Cite web|title=Carbon Inc CEO Named Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 National Overall Award Winner|url=https://www.ey.com/en_us/news/2019/11/carbon-inc-ceo-named-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2019-national-overall-winner|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=www.ey.com|language=en-US}} For the years 2019-2020 he was awarded the Harvey Prize of the Technion in Israel.[https://www.newswise.com/articles/technion-harvey-prize-honors-pioneers-in-chemical-engineering-and-medical-sciences Harvey Prize 2019-2020] In 2021, he received the Charles Goodyear Medal{{cite news |title=Joseph DeSimone Is 2021 Charles Goodyear Medalist |url=https://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=63867&i=676923&p=2 |access-date=October 19, 2020 |work=IEC Daily |publisher=Lippencott and Peto |date=October 19, 2020}} from the American Chemical Society Rubber Division.
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External links
- [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/47029 Oral history interview transcript with Joseph DeSimone on 24 May 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives]
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