Oklahoma State University's Josh Ramsey earns prestigious NSF award
Friday, May 2, 2014
Ramsey, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, will focus on discovering
and characterizing new materials to help in the transition to a new delivery system
for gene therapy. “We hope our work will provide incremental steps to transition from
virus-based delivery to a synthetic particle-based method and ultimately help transform
the field of gene therapy from a fringe medical treatment to a common way to prevent
and treat disease,” said Ramsey.
As an education component to his research, Ramsey will be working with high school
teachers to integrate biomedical engineering principles into their current curriculum
to train the next generation of scientists and engineers. The project will also involve
a two-week summer research experience intended to give Native American, African American
and home-schooled high school students the opportunity to work in a university research
laboratory.
Ramsey is the third consecutive chemical engineering faculty member at OSU to receive
the CAREER Award, a major point of pride for both the School of Chemical Engineering
and the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology at OSU.
Ramsey received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from OSU, and a master’s
from the University of Illinois. He received a doctorate in chemical and biomolecular
engineering from the University of Illinois in 2006, and served as a PhRMA Foundation
Fellow at the University of Kansas in 2007.