Millicent O. Sullivan

Millicent O. Sullivan

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware

Affiliated withUniversity of Delaware

Research Area

Biography

Millicent Sullivan is the Alvin B. and Julie O. Stiles Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, and she also is a Professor in Biomedical Engineering at UD. Millie graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. degree in Chemical Engineering and a Certificate in Engineering Biology in 1998. Subsequently, she attended Carnegie Mellon University as a Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellow, where she earned her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering with Professor Todd Przybycien in 2003. As a Ruth L. Kirchstein NIH postdoctoral fellow, Millie worked with Professor E. Helene Sage in the Matrix Biology/Hope Heart Program of the Benaroya Research Institute. In 2006, Millie moved to the University of Delaware. Her laboratory develops new biomaterials for drug delivery, gene delivery, and tissue engineering, with specific therapeutic targets including metastatic breast cancer, bone repair, wound healing, and cardiovascular repair. Additionally, her lab recently began working in synthetic cell design using engineered polypeptides. Specific fundamental foci include de novo peptide design, peptide and polymer self-assembly, and subcellular processing mechanisms. Sullivan is Core Director in the Delaware COBRE Center for Musculoskeletal Research, a member of the Penn Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine (CT3N), and an Affiliate Member of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. She is an AIMBE fellow, past Standing Member of the Gene and Drug Delivery (GDD) study section at NIH, and Honorary Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, and she has been the recipient of awards and honors including a Fulbright Future Award, the Centennial Professorship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Merck Faculty Fellow Award.

JoVE Journal Publications

ArticleTotal : 2
Year
Predicting Gene Silencing Through the Spatiotemporal Control of siRNA Release from Photo-responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers
Publication title

Cited by 6

2017
2022

Other Publications

Article
Year
Formulation of a peptide nucleic acid based nucleic acid delivery construct.

Bioconjugate chemistry| PubMed ID: 20131756

2010
2010
Surface immobilization of plasmid DNA with a cell-responsive tether for substrate-mediated gene delivery.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids| PubMed ID: 21323317

2011
2012
2012
2012
2012
2013
2013
2011
2014
2014
2015
2014
2015
2015
2015
2016
2015
2016
2016
2017
2017
2017
2017
2018
Polymers at the Interface with Biology.

Biomacromolecules| PubMed ID: 30099879

2018
2018
2019
Gene delivery by peptide-assisted transport.

Current opinion in biomedical engineering| PubMed ID: 30906908

2018
2020
Hybrid hydrogels for biomedical applications.

Current opinion in chemical engineering| PubMed ID: 31844607

2019
2020
Targeted Drug Delivery via the Use of ECM-Mimetic Materials.

Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology| PubMed ID: 32133350

2020
2014
2020
2020
2020
Mechanistic Design of Polymer Nanocarriers to Spatiotemporally Control Gene Silencing.

ACS biomaterials science & engineering| PubMed ID: 33440593

2016
Engineering bionanoparticles for improved biosensing and bioimaging.

Current opinion in biotechnology| PubMed ID: 34157601

2021
2021
2021
Inhalable mRNA vaccines for respiratory diseases: a roadmap.

Current opinion in biotechnology| PubMed ID: 34894574

2021
2022