David Edwards (engineer)
David A. Edwards is a Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University.Education
Edwards studied chemical engineering at Michigan Technological University as an undergraduate, receiving a B.S. in 1983, and going on to a Ph.D. in 1987 in the same subject from the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a brief postdoctorate and lecturership at the Technion in Israel, he taught for four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and for three more at Pennsylvania State University before leaving academia in 1998. In 2002, he was hired as the McKay Professor of the Practice at Harvard.Research
Edwards' scientific work concerns the research and development of drug delivery platforms for treating infectious diseases in the developing world. He is a founder of Advanced Inhalation Research, or AIR, now part of Alkermes, Inc., of Pulmatrix, and of Medicine in Need, an international non-governmental organization aimed at developing new drugs and vaccines for diseases of poverty, such as tuberculosis.Publications
