Louisiana Board of Regents

Dr. Yuri Lvov, Tolbert Pipes Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems at Louisiana Tech’s Institute for Micromanufacturing has pioneered the delivery of medicine to diseased human cells via tiny vessels smaller than a cell and is an internationally recognized expert in nanotechnology. And it’s about to get better. Dr. Lvov and his team of researchers have a patent pending for a novel nano-encapsulation technology system that may be used to substantially enhance the ability to treat cancers and their metastases.

Dr. Yuri Lvov (right) and LA Tech biomedical engineering graduate student Shantanu Balkundi.

“The novel system has several advantages over current chemotherapy approaches,” says Dr. Lvov. “These include minimal side effects for the immune system, high specificity and selectivity for target cells, and easy administration of the nanometer-sized particles.”

Dr. Lvov has made impressive use of the many resources Louisiana offers to support his cutting-edge research and promote educational development. Recruited to Louisiana Tech as an endowed chair established through the BoRSF Eminent Scholars program, he has been a highly productive member of the faculty and a model of scholarly and academic collegiality.  Already the recipient of six U.S. and Japanese patents, Dr. Lvov has another five pending. Two of those five were funded in part by LA EPSCoR. In addition, Dr. Lvov has served as co-PI on several BoRSF research awards, including junior faculty members’ Research Competitiveness Subprogram (RCS) projects and a large Post-Katrina Support Fund Primarily Research partnership with UNO’s Advanced Materials Research Institute. Dr. Lvov’s engagement, moreover, stretches beyond the lab to the classroom: he has served as PI on a BoRSF Enhancement award supporting curriculum development for nanosystems engineering, molecular science and nanotechnology programs.

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