Clemson professor named Avis Distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Tennessee

Published: March 19, 2013

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie image by: Clemson University

CLEMSON — Clemson University bioengineering professor Anthony Guiseppi-Elie has been named the 2013 Kenneth E. Avis Distinguished Visiting Professor in the department of pharmaceutical sciences of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Guiseppi-Elie is director of the Center for Bioelectronics Biosensors and Biochips at Clemson and holds appointments in electrical and computer engineering, bioengineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering. He is being recognized for his pioneering work in biologically responsive drug-delivery systems.

Guiseppi-Elie researches engineered bioanalytical systems related to human health and medicine.  Of particular interest are sense-and-release devices that emulate the body’s natural control systems. He studies bioelectrochemistry and bioelectronic devices, implantable biologically responsive hydrogels for the healing of chronic wounds, the development and clinical deployment of in vivo biosensors for the management of trauma-induced hemorrhage and the development of DNA biochips for biomedical diagnostics and prognostics.

His research has been supported by the U.S. Department of Defense through its Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs under a grant to Clemson University.

The pharmaceutical sciences department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is located in Memphis and has 20 faculty members. It offers Ph.D. degrees through the College of Graduate Health Sciences. Graduates are prepared to assume positions of responsibility in academia, government, pharmaceutical industry and other health-related organizations and institutions.

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Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips
The Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips at Clemson University focuses on the development of platform technologies that are of mutual interest to the industrial consortium members and faculty while providing education and training opportunities for science, technology engineering and mathematics-oriented high school students, science teachers, undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral trainees.

The Kenneth E. Avis Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Avis Visiting Professorship was named for Dr. Kenneth Avis, whose major interests were in manufacturing, processing and control of sterile parenteral medications.  He developed the post-graduate course in this area at the University of Tennessee and established UT’s Sterile Products Laboratory. Avis served the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical industry with research on good manufacturing practices and the development of dosage forms. His honors include the Schaufus Patenteral Technology Achievement Award, the Parenteral Drug Association Research Award, the UT National Alumni Association Public Service Award and the FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 1986.