Liquidia Technologies co-founder Awarded the "Oscar for Inventors"
This week Joseph DeSimone, co-founder of Liquidia Technologies, was awarded the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize in recognition of his inventions and innovations that improve the world in which we live. DeSimone's most recent invention, the PRINT® (Particle Replication in Non-wetting Templates) platform utilizes techniques from the microelectronics industry to design and manufacture highly-precise shape and size-specific nanomaterials. .
Liquidia has been a CED member since 2004. DeSimone presented at CED's Venture Conference in 2001, 2003 and again in 2005. Since participating in CED's Venture Conference, Liquidia Technologies has raised two rounds of venture capital totaling $22 million.