1. Mark Robert Prausnitz is an American chemical engineer, currently Regents' Professor, Regents' Entrepreneur and J Erskine Love, Jr.
13 Facts About Mark Prausnitz
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Mark Prausnitz is known for pioneering microneedle technology for minimally invasive drug and vaccine administration, which has found applications in transdermal, ocular, oral, and sustained release delivery systems.
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Mark Prausnitz has published almost 350 research papers in collaboration with over 100 different senior collaborations in universities, industry partners, and government.
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Mark Prausnitz's publications have been cited more than 63,000 times with an h-index of 123 as of March 2025.
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Mark Prausnitz is inventor on more than 70 US patents.
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Mark Prausnitz joined ALZA corporation as junior chemical engineer where he worked on transdermal drug delivery systems.
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Mark Prausnitz then pursued graduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Robert S Langer and James Weaver, and received his Ph.
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Mark Prausnitz is best known as the founder of Microneedle drug delivery, having published the first paper on microneedle use for drug delivery in 1998, conducted the first clinical trials of drug and vaccine delivery using microneedles, founded ten companies based on the technologies.
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In 2007, Mark Prausnitz published the first paper on ocular drug delivery using microneedles.
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Mark Prausnitz has collaborated at Emory University and elsewhere to develop hollow and solid microneedle systems to target drug delivery to sites of action within the eye in both the posterior and anterior segments.
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Mark Prausnitz published the first paper on skin electroporation and demonstrated its feasibility for transdermal drug delivery in 1993.
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Mark Prausnitz has studied mechanisms of creating transient pores in cell membranes to promote intracellular delivery of biomolecules using electroporation, ultrasound-mediated cavitation, and laser-activated nanoparticles.
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Mark Prausnitz is the son of University of California, Berkeley professor John Prausnitz.