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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum vitae Date Prepared: October 11, 2018 Name: Daniel J. Siegwart, Ph.D. Office Address: Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Biochemistry 6001 Forest Park Road, ND2.210E Dallas, TX 75390-8807 Work Phone: 214-645-6354 Work E-Mail: [email protected] Work Fax: 214-645-6347 Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, PA Education Degree Field of Study Year Institution (Honors) (Thesis advisor for PhDs) 2003 B.S. Biochemistry Lehigh University Chemistry 2005 M.S. Carnegie Mellon University (Krzysztof Matyjaszewski) Chemistry 2008 Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University (Krzysztof Matyjaszewski) Postdoctoral Training Specialty/Discipline Year(s) Titles Institution (Lab PI for postdoc research) Postdoctoral Chemical Engineering, Cancer Massachusetts Institute of 2008 – 2012 Fellow (Robert Langer) Technology Current Licensure and Certification Honors and Awards Year Name of Honor/Award Awarding Organization Chemistry Department Research 2003 Lehigh University Honors The Joseph A. Solomon Memorial 2005 – 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Fellowship in Chemistry 1 East Asia and Pacific Summer 2006 National Science Foundation (NSF) Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship Ruth L. Kirschstein National 2010 – 2012 Research Service Award (NRSA) National Institutes of Health (NIH) F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas 2012 – 2016 CPRIT Scholar Award (CPRIT) 2014 Award in Cancer Research Friends of the Comprehensive Cancer Center 2017 Research Scholar American Cancer Society 2018 Young Innovator Award in 2018 Editorial Board of Nano Research Nanobiotechnology Faculty Academic Appointments Year(s) Academic Title Department Academic Institution Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center (primary); 2012 – 2018 Assistant Professor UT Southwestern Medical Center Department of Biochemistry (secondary) Simmons Comprehensive Associate Professor Cancer Center (primary); 2018 – UT Southwestern Medical Center (with tenure) Department of Biochemistry (secondary) Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions Other Professional Positions Year(s) Position Title Institution Eli Lilly and Company 2002 Intern Indianapolis, IN Research Fellow University of Tokyo 2006 Department of Materials Engineering Tokyo, Japan InVivo Therapeutics 2010 – 2013 Consultant Cambridge, MA Mirna Therapeutics 2014 – 2016 Consultant Austin, TX ReCode Therapeutics 2015 Co-founder Dallas, TX ReCode Therapeutics 2017 – Present Consultant Dallas, TX 2017 Consultant Back Bay Life Sciences 2017 Consultant Schlesinger Associates Consulting 2017 Consultant Boston Consulting Group 2 2018 Consultant AlphaSights Major Administrative/Leadership Positions Committee Service Year(s) Name of Committee Institution/Organization UTSW Faculty level committees Chemical Safety Advisory Subcommittee 2013 – Present UTSW (CSAS) Committee on Graduate School Awards Representative of the Organic Chemistry 2016 – Present Graduate Program UTSW (Ida M. Green Award, Kirpatrick Endowment, Nominata Award, etc.) Review Committee 2017 – Present Brown-Goldstein Excellence Award for Postdoc UTSW Research Student education level committees Participated in attainment and proposal exams UTSW Cancer Biology Program 2012 – Present (various) UTSW Organic Chemistry Program Student Thesis Committee (Chair): 2013 – 2016 UTSW Organic Chemistry Program Yang Li (PI: Jinming Gao) Qualifying Exam Committee (Chair): 2015 UTSW Organic Chemistry Program Aaron Coffin (PI: Joseph Ready) Student Thesis Committee (Member): UTSW Biological Chemistry 2015 – 2017 Austin Gay (PI: Arun Radhakrishnan) Program Student Thesis Committee (Chair): 2015 – 2018 UTSW Cancer Biology Program Brandt Nichols (PI: Angelique Whitehurst) Student Thesis Committee (Member): 2015 – Present UTSW Cancer Biology Program Ning Zhang (PIs: Jerry Shay, Gaudenz Danuser) Student Thesis Committee (Member): UTSW Biological Chemistry 2017 – Present Anam Shaikh (PI: John MacMillen) Program Professional Societies Dates Society Name, member American Chemical Society (ACS) Society for Biomaterials (SFB) American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Controlled Release Society (CRS) 3 Committees 2013 – 2015 Society for Biomaterials Nanomaterials Special Interest Group (SIG), Treasurer 2015 – 2017 Society for Biomaterials Nanomaterials Special Interest Group (SIG), Chair 2017 – Present Society for Biomaterials Nanomaterials Special Interest Group (SIG), Vice Chair ACS Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) Selection Committee for the “2017 2017 Talented 12” Founding Chair of the Board, Controlled Release Society, Gene Delivery and Editing 2018 Focus Group Grant Review Activities Year(s) Name of Review Committee Organization Biotechnology and Biological 2014 Grant Peer Review Committee Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), United Kingdom Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 2014 Reviewer Office of Research and Innovation Agency for Science, Technology and 2014 Joint Council Office (JCO) Research (A*STAR), Singapore 2015, 2016, Petroleum Research Foundation (PRF) American Chemical Society (ACS) 2017 2015 Reviewer Ohio Cancer Research Associates 2016 Review Committee Mary Kay Foundation Natural Sciences and Engineering 2017 Reviewer Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 2017 Review Committee (Onsite Panel) National Science Foundation (NSF) 2017 Review Committee (Mail Reviewer) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Editorial Activities Year(s) Journal Name Ad Hoc Reviewer (Note: all reviewing activity below occurred from 2012 – Present while at UTSW) ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering ACS Books ACS Macro Letters ACS Nano Acta Biomaterialia Advanced Materials Advanced Science Angewandte Chemie Bioengineering and Translational Medicine Bioconjugate Chemistry 4 Biomacromolecules Biomaterials Biomaterials Science Cancer Research Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Chemical Communications Chemical Science Chemistry - A European Journal ChemMedChem Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research Colloid and Polymer Science Drug Delivery European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics Experimental Biology and Medicine Gastroenterology Integrative Biology Journal of the American Chemical Society Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology Journal of Controlled Release Journal of Materials Chemistry B Journal of Visualized Experiments Langmuir Macromolecular Bioscience Macromolecular Rapid Communications Macromolecules Microscopy and Microanalysis Molecular Pharmaceutics Molecular Therapy Molecular Therapy – Gene Therapy Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids Nano Letters Nano Research Nanoscale Nature Communications Nature Nanotechnology Nature Reviews Materials Nucleic Acids Research Physiological Reviews Polymer Polymer Chemistry Polymer International Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Progress in Polymer Science Science Advances Scientific Reports WIREs Invited Lectures 5 Year(s) Title Location International 2014 4th Zing Polymer Chemistry Conference Cancun, Mexico 2016 World Biomaterials Congress Montreal, Quebec, Canada University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, 2017 Department of Biochemistry Canada European Cystic Fibrosis Society (ECFS) 2017 Albufeira, Portugal Basic Science Conference Beijing Symposium 2017: 2017 Suzhou, China Polymeric Biomaterials 2018 Nano Korea Conference Seoul, Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology 2018 (POSTECH) Pohang, Korea Department of Chemistry Korea Advanced Institute for Science and 2018 Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Korea Department of Chemistry National Gordon Research Conference 2013 West Dover, VT on Cancer Nanotechnology 2014 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting Denver, CO “Polymers in Medicine”, American Chemical 2015 Santa Rosa, CA Society Polymer Division Workshop “Macromolecular Engineering Symposium Honoring the Impact and 65th Birthday of 2015 Pittsburgh, PA Krzysztof Matyjaszewski”, Carnegie Mellon University 2015 American Chemical Society National Meeting Boston, MA 2015 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting Charlotte, NC US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery 2015 Lahaina, HI Systems Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Conference: 2016 New Technologies Advancing Toward a One Savannah, GA Time Cure “microRNAs: A Gene Silencing Mechanism 2016 with Therapeutic Implications” conference New York, NY hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences Nanomedicines Symposium: Advances in 2016 Materials, Manufacturing & Therapeutic Seattle, WA Applications 6 American Chemical Society National Meeting, invited lecturer in the “Polymeric Materials as 2016 Philadelphia, PA Imaging Agents & Theranostics” special symposium. Gordon Research Conference on 2016 Waterville Valley, NH Drug Carriers in Medicine & Biology 2017 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting Minneapolis, MN 2017 Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting Boston, MA Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research 2017 Stevenson, WA Conference: Pushing the Frontiers Oregon Health Sciences University 2017 Portland, OR College of Pharmacy Iowa State University 2017 Department of Materials Science and Ames, IA Engineering University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Pharmacy 2017 Omaha, NE 4th Annual Biopharmaceutical Research and Development Symposium (BRDS) US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery 2017 Lahaina, HI Systems 2018 Foundations of Nanoscience Conference Snowbird, Utah University of Notre Dame 2018 South Bend, IN Department of Chemistry “Advancing Gene Editing Technologies for the Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis Lung Disease” 2018 Bethesda, MD workshop co-sponsored by the NIH and Cystic Fibrosis
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