10:09 a.m., April 10, 2009----Matthew DeLisa, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell University, will deliver the Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture at 10 a.m., Friday, April 24, in 102/103 Colburn Laboratory.

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DeLisa will speak on the topic “Manipulating Quality Control Mechanisms in Bacteria for Preclinical Development of Protein Therapeutics.”

His research focuses on understanding and controlling the molecular mechanisms underlying protein biogenesis -- folding and assembly, membrane translocation and post-translational modifications -- in the complex environment of a living cell.

He has invented numerous commercially important technologies for facilitating the discovery, design and manufacturing of human drugs and seminal discoveries in the areas of cellular protein folding and protein translocation.

DeLisa has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) Watson Young Investigator Award, the Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and the NYSTAR Faculty Development Award. He was named one of the top 35 young innovators by MIT's Technology Review in 2005.

DeLisa received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Maryland. After postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Austin, he joined Cornell University in 2003 as assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

The lecture is sponsored by the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and the University of Delaware's Department of Chemical Engineering. It honors Allan P. Colburn, who was chairperson of chemical engineering and provost of the University.