Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Department
Project Title: Tolerance-Programming Biomaterial-Based Intranasal ASIT for the Treatment of Autoimmunity
Award Year: 2021
Biography
Scott Wilson earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he worked with Dr. Niren Murthy developing drug delivery platforms for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, cranial re-synostosis, acute lung injury, and osteoarthritis. As a postdoc in Professor Jeffery A. Hubbell’s Laboratory (École olytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Dr. Wilson’s research focused on the synthesis and preclinical validation of biomaterials-based subunit vaccines that elicit cellular immunity against infections and malignancy, as well as disease-modifying inverse vaccines for autoimmunity. In 2020, Dr. Wilson joined the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Department as an assistant professor. Dr. Wilson’s Lab utilizes organic chemistry to synthesize biomaterials-based immunomodulatory therapies that bias the adaptive immune response towards antigen-specific immunity or tolerance.