Thorpe, Philip Edward Professor Pharmacology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
EDUCATION/TRAINING University of Liverpool, UK B.Sc. 1972 Pharmacology Clinical Research Centre, London, UK Ph.D. 1976 Immunology
Positions and Employment 1975-1981 Medical Research Council Fellow, Chester Beatty Research Institute, London, U.K. 1981-1991 Director, Drug Targeting Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, U.K. 1991-1998 Professor of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,Texas 1998-1999 Associate Director, Center for Molecular Medicine, Maine Medical Center, ME 1999-Present Serena Simmons Distinguished Chair in Cancer Immunopharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Other Experience and Professional Memberships 1998 Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology, Ventura, CA 2002 Chairman, 1st International Symposium on Vascular Targeting, Boston, MA 2004 Chairman, 2nd International Symposium on Vascular Targeting, Miami, FL 2004-Present American Cancer Society Institutional Review Group
Honors 1972 1st Class honors (summa cum laude), Bachelor of Science Degree 1988 1st recipient of Pierce Immunotoxin Award (awarded every two years for outstanding contributions to immunotoxin research) 1997 Texas State Legislature Award for Research Excellence 1999 American Cancer Society Award of Excellence
Patents 252 issued and pending worldwide patents (including 74 in the US)
Publications 180 publications in fields of drug targeting, angiogenesis, antibody-based therapeutics.
