Vanderbilt School of Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet and Director Emeritus of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Harold L. Moses have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
Fauchet is a successful entrepreneur and co-founder of SiMPore Inc., a nanotechnology company that designs and produces membranes and membrane-enabled products based on its silicon nanomembrane technologies. He has more than 30 years of experience in silicon photonics, nanoscience and nanotechnology with silicon quantum dots, biosensors, electroluminescent materials and devices, and optical diagnostics.
Moses is the Director Emeritus of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, professor of Cancer Biology, Medicine and Pathology, and the founding and current director of the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories. Moses is well known for his work on the transforming growth factor-beta family of growth regulatory peptides. He was the recipient of two Outstanding Investigator Awards from the National Cancer Institute, the Ester Langer Award from the University of Chicago for meritorious cancer research, the Outstanding Alumnus of Kentucky Award, the John Exton Award for Innovative Research from Vanderbilt University and the Rous-Whipple Award for outstanding research accomplishments from the American Association of Pathologists.
Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
