Samir Mitragotri, from the University of California, Santa Barbra’s (UCSB) department of chemical engineering, will host a seminar on “Innovative Systems for Effective Delivery of Therapeutics” from 11 to 11:40 a.m. Thursday in 171 Durham Center. The lecture is free to the public.

A reception will take place before Mitragotri’s lecture at 10:30 a.m. in 2061 Sweeney Hall. 

Mitragotri has played many rolls, such as founding director of UCSB’s Center for Bioengineering, and received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published approximately 150 scientific journals and books and is the creator of almost 80 pending or issued patents.

Mitragotri will discuss a few of the present techniques for breast cancer treatments and vascular bleeding post trauma during the lecture.