Denis Wirtz

DENIS WIRTZ, Johns Hopkins University professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and director of the Engineering in Oncology Center, has been named the Theophilus Halley Smoot Professor of Engineering Science in the Whiting School of Engineering.

Dr. Wirtz is the founding associate director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology. He was named a 2009 fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in the Engineering Section for his contributions to cell micromechanics, cell adhesion, and for the development and application of particle tracking methods that probe the micromechanical properties of living cells.

He is on the editorial boards of Biophysical Journal, Cell Adhesion and Migration and Physical Biology. In 2005, he was named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Wirtz won the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1996 and the Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Foundation Award in 1997.