Biography
Dr. William G. Pitt received his BS degree from Brigham Young University in Chemical Engineering in 1983. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1987. He then accepted a faculty position at Brigham Young University (BYU) in the Chemical Engineering Department, where he has served since 1987. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. His research and publications are in the areas of drug and gene delivery, ultrasonic-enhanced drug delivery, polymer synthesis, polymer surface chemistry and modification, novel biomedical materials, biofilms, and most recently the rapid separation of bacteria from blood. He has more than 159 peer-reviewed publications, which have been cited over 7,900 times, and his h-index is 51. He holds 9 patents with others pending. He has supervised over $4.9 million in external research funding, serving as principal research advisor to 37 graduate students. He is on the Editorial Board of 2 major journals in the area of biomedical and biological materials.
At BYU he has taught many of the undergraduate chemical engineering classes, and graduate classes on transport phenomena, polymer science and biomedical engineering.
He is Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and a member of the Society for Biological Engineering, Society for Biomaterials, and Controlled Release Society. In AIChE he is actively involved in the Student Chapters Committee, serving on subcommittees for the National Student Paper Competition, and Regional Student Conferences.
Research Interests
Biomedical PolymersDrug Delivery
Controlled Drug Release
Colloid and Surface Chemistry
Cancer
Teaching Interests
Materials SciencePolymer Science
Transport Phenomena
Biomedical Engineering
Honors and Awards
- Harvey Fletcher Professorship, Fulton College of Engineering (2019 - Present)
- Elected a Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2016 - Present)
- Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education, Brigham Young University (2016 - 2017)
- Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award, BYU (2013 - 2014)
- Pope Professorship, ChEn Department of BYU (2007 - 2012)
- BYU Sponsored Research Award, the ORCA office of BYU (2007 - 2008)
Memberships
- Society for Biological Engineering (1995 - Present)
- Society for Biomaterials (1989 - Present)
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1987 - Present)
- American Society for Microbiology (2016 - 2019)
- Controlled Release Society (1999 - 2019)
Professional Citizenship
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACS Omega (Journal) (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Journal of Pharmacy and Biopharmacy (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Polymer Engineering (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Opinions in Electrochemistry (journal) (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Process Biochemistry (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Clinical Ophthalmology Reviews (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2022 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ocular Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Analytica Chimica Acta (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, New Journal of Chemistry (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Nanotechnology (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Eye Research (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, AIChE Journal (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Transactions on NanoBioscience (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Biotechnology (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Materials Science and Engineering Journal (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Heliyon Journal (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Acta Biomaterialia Journal (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Clinical and Experimental Optometry (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (2019 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics (2019 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, French National Research Agency (2019 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, New Microbiologica (journal) (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Small (journal) (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Infection and Drug Resistance (journal) (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Communications (journal) (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology (2017 - Present)
- Other, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2016 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry (2015 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2015 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2011 - Present)
- Board Member, 2ft Prosthetics (2011 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Editorial Board of Colloids and Surface B: Biointerfaces (2010 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (2010 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biomaterials (2009 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Controlled Release (2004 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Biomaterials Science: Polymer Edition (2003 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Colloids and Surface B: Biointerfaces (2003 - Present)
- Conference-Related Role, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2000 - Present)
- Committee/Council Chair, AIChE Student Chapters Subcommittee on Regional Conferences (1995 - Present)
- Committee/Council Member, AIChE Student Chapters Committee (1992 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition (1989 - Present)
- Committee/Council Chair, AIChE National Student Technical Presentation Competition (1988 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Talanta (journal) (2018 - 2023)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Open Biotechnology Journal (2017 - 2023)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Reviews in Colloids and Surfaces (2017 - 2023)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nanoscale (2017 - 2023)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Applied Surface Science (2015 - 2023)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, RSC Advances (2017 - 2022)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease (2017 - 2022)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Theranostics (2017 - 2022)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2022 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation (2018 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Advances Healthcare Materials (2017 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACS Applied Materials (2015 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Nanomedicine (2015 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Biotechnolgoy (2009 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biomacromolecules (2007 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Langmuir (2004 - 2021)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Scientific Reports (2017 - 2020)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Reviews in Drug Discovery (2016 - 2020)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, ACS Nano (2016 - 2020)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Engineering Education (2016 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Advances in Colloids and Surfaces (2016 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Applied Biomedicine (2016 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ultrasonics Journal (2016 - 2019)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Eye and Contact Lens (2013 - 2019)
- Committee/Council Member, University of Melbourne, Australia (2018 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, National Science Organization of the Netherlands (2018 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Cluster Science (2016 - 2018)
- Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, Singapore Technology and Research (2008 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, National Institutes of Health (2007 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Engineering Journal (2013 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Dental Research (2013 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Molecular Microbial Science (2015 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Physics in Medicine and Biology (2011 - 2018)
- Conference-Related Role, AIChE (2014 - 2015)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Bioconjugate Chemistry (2010 - 2013)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2009 - 2013)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Royal Chemistry Society (2007 - 2013)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Expert Opinions in Drug Delivery (2005 - 2013)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Expert Opinions on Therapeutic Patents (2005 - 2013)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemical Engineering and Processing (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Medicinal Chemistry (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Molecular Pharmaceuticals (2009 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2004 - 2012)
- Officer, Biomedical Engineering Club Advisor (2002 - 2012)
- Conference-Related Role, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Drug Delivery Letters (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Applied Microbiology (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biofouling (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chemotherapy (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of Hyperthermia (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Molecular Microbial Science (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Dairy Journal (2010 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Medical Hypotheses (2010 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Chile National Research Council (2011 - 2011)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Current Drug Delivery (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Pharmaceutical Research (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, State of North Carolina (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Colloid and Surface Science A (2008 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment (2004 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Welcome Trust (2004 - 2010)
- Other, Norwegian Technical University - Trondheim (2010 - 2010)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biochemical Engineering Journal (2009 - 2009)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Biomaterials (2009 - 2009)
- Committee/Council Chair, AIChE Student Chapters Subcommittee on Regional Conferences (2008 - 2008)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (2008 - 2008)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Nature Reviews in Drug Discovery (2005 - 2005)