Paula Hammond

Paula Hammond is an Institute Professor at MIT and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering — one of the most powerful positions in chemical engineering globally. She is also a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Hammond is a pioneer of Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembly — a technique for building nanoscale multilayer films on surfaces and nanoparticles with molecular precision. Her LbL nanoparticles can sequentially deliver multiple drugs with programmed timing, enabling combination cancer therapies that would be impossible with conventional formulations. She has developed LbL nanoparticles for co-delivery of siRNA silencing oncogenes combined with chemotherapy, for ovarian cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, and other difficult-to-treat malignancies. She is the first Black woman to receive tenure in MIT's School of Engineering.

Paula Hammond 是麻省理工学院的学会教授，也是化学工程系主任——这是全球化学工程领域最具影响力的职位之一。她还是MIT科赫综合癌症研究所的成员。 Hammond 是逐层（LbL）组装技术的先驱——一种在表面和纳米颗粒上以分子精度构建纳米级多层薄膜的技术。她的LbL纳米颗粒可以按程序时序依次递送多种药物，实现传统制剂无法实现的联合癌症治疗。