S. Patrick Walton
Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Engineering Dean's Office, College of Engineering
C Robert and Kathryn M Weir Endowed Professorship - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (ChEMS) in the College of Engineering
Associate Professor - Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (ChEMS) in the College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 3249
Biography
Biomolecular engineering, thermodynamic and kinetic design of biomolecules, nucleic acid biotechnology, genomics and proteomics, RNA interference, nanobiotechnology, polymeric nanoparticles.
Education
Sc.D., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2002
M.S., Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000
B.ChE., Chemical Engineering,, Georgia Institute of Technology 1994
Awards
C. Robert and Kathryn M. Weir Endowed Professorship, 2017
Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor of the Year, 2017
MSU RCPD Outstanding Faculty and Staff Award, 2012
College of Engineering Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, 2012
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Lawson, H.D., Walton, S.P., and Chan, C. 2021. Metal-Organic Frameworks for Drug Delivery: A Design Perspective. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 13(6): 7004-7020.
Nath, A., Oak, A., Chen, K.Y., Li, I., Splichal, R.C., Portis, J., Foster, S., Walton, S.P., and Chan, C. 2021. Palmitate-induced IRE1-XBP1-ZEB signaling represses desmoplakin expression and promotes cancer cell migration. Molecular Cancer Research. 19(2): 240-248.
Splichal, R.C., Gredell, J.A., Vogel, E., Malefyt, A.P., Comiskey, G.A., Smith, M.R., Chan, C., and Walton, S.P. 2020 (online). Modulating Polymer-siRNA Binding does not Promote Polyplex-Mediated Silencing. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics.
Vocelle, D., Chesniak, O.M., Smith, M.R., Chan, C., and Walton, S.P. 2020. Kinetic Analysis of the Intracellular Processing of siRNAs by Confocal Microscopy. Microscopy (Oxf). 69(6): 401-407.