Tim Deming

Timothy J. Deming

Timothy J. Deming received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine in 1989, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. After a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with David Tirrell, he joined the faculty in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995. Here he held appointments in the Materials and Chemistry Departments where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2003. His appointment is now as Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California Los Angeles. He served as the Chairman of the Bioengineering Department at UCLA from 2006 to 2011. He is a leader in the fields of polypeptide synthesis, self-assembly of block copolypeptides, and use of polypeptides in biology, for which he has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the Materials Research Society, and the IUPAC Macromolecular Division. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and recently received the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award.

Employment History

7/15 – 1/16 Vice-Chair, Undergraduate affairs, Department of Bioengineering, UCLA

7/05 – present Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

7/04 – present Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UCLA

7/06 – 6/11 Chairman, Department of Bioengineering, UCLA

7/06 – 12/08 Chairman, Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Graduate Program, UCLA

7/03 – 6/04 Professor, Materials and Chemistry Departments, Interdepartmental Program of

Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UCSB

7/99 – 6/03 Associate Professor, Materials and Chemistry Departments, Interdepartmental Program

of Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UCSB

1/96 – 6/99 Assistant Professor Materials and Chemistry Departments, UCSB

3/95 – 1/96 Assistant Professor, Materials Department, UCSB

11/93-3/95 Postdoctoral research associate with Professor David A. Tirrell, Polymer Science and

Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Education

8/89 - 10/93 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA

9/85 - 6/89 BS in Chemistry (magna cum laude), University of California, Irvine, CA

Honors and Fellowships

Fulbright Scholar - Fulbright-Toqueville Distinguished Chair Award 2015-2016.

Professeur Invit�, University of Bordeaux, France 2012.

Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2010.

Herbert Newby McCoy Award (UCLA Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.) 2008.

IUPAC Macromolecular Division, Samsung-IUPAC Young Scientist Award 2004.

Materials Research Society Young Investigator Award 2003.

Rothschild and Mayent Foundation Fellow, Institut Curie, Paris 2002.

Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2000.

3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 1999.

Beckman Young Investigator Award 1998.

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow 1998.

National Science Foundation CAREER Award 1997.

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator 1996.

University of California, Regents Junior Faculty Fellow 1996.

Unilever Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry 1994.

Professional Activities and Service

2019, Organizer, Symposium on Design, Synthesis, and Engineering of Polypeptides for Biological and Biomedical Applications, PMSE Division, ACS National Meeting, San Diego.

2017, Organizer, Biomacromolecules round table discussion, ACS National Meeting, Washington DC.

2017, Organizer, Symposium on Polymers at the Interface with Biology, POLY Division, ACS National Meeting, Washington DC.

2016, Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials, Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

2015, Organizer, Symposium on Synthetic Biopolymers, Pacifichem, Hololulu.

2014-present, Associate Editor, Biomacromolecules.

2014, Organizer, Symposium on Polypeptides in Nanomedicine, POLY Division, ACS National Meeting, Dallas.

2014, Vice-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials, Maine.

2014, International Advisory Committee member, IUPAC World Polymer Congress, Thailand.

2013-present, External Advisory Board member, NSF-PREM center, Texas State University San Marcos

2012, Organizer, Symposium on Glycopeptide Polymers, POLY Division, ACS National Meeting, San Diego.

2011, Head of Steering Committee and Lead Organizer, 6th DFG-NSF Research Conference on Bioinspired Design and Engineering of Novel Functional Materials, New York.

2010-present, Faculty Advisor, Los Angeles Student Chapter of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers.

2010-present, Editorial Advisory Board, Biomacromolecules.

2009, Program Chair, First International Conference on multifunctional, hybrid, and nanomaterials, Tours, France.

2007, Organizer, Symposium on Polypeptide and Protein Materials, PMSE Division, ACS National Meeting, Boston.

2006, Technical Program Chair, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) National Meeting, Los Angeles.

2006-present; member, Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA.

2005-2009, Editorial Advisory Board, Soft Matter.

2004-2011, member, Materials Creating Training Program, NSF IGERT.

2002-present, Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecular Bioscience.

2003-2006, Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules.

2000-2005, Editorial Advisory Board, Biopolymers.

2003, Organizer, Symposium on Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials Assembly, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston.

2003, Polymer Science demonstrations for Washington School students (5^th and 6^th grade, SB, CA).

2001, Presentation and Polymer Science demonstrations for Redwood Middle School students (7^th and 8^th grade, Thousand Oaks, CA).

2000, Organizer, ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry Symposium, ACS National Meeting, San Diego.