Prof. Yoon Yeo is the Lillian Barboul Thomas Professor and Associate Department Head of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics at Purdue University. She has built expertise in pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery through Ph.D. training in protein microencapsulation and post-doc training in hydrogel-based biomaterials. At Purdue, Prof. Yeo leads a research program specializing in immunomodulatory formulations for anti-inflammatory applications and cancer immunotherapy, intracellular delivery of gene therapeutics and peptide antibiotics, new methods of delivering anticancer drugs, and long-acting drug delivery systems, with the support of the NIH, NSF, and industry. She has authored 130 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 61 and >12000 citations. Prof. Yeo is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS, 2019) and the Controlled Release Society (CRS, 2022) and currently serves as a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Controlled Release and for the CRS Board of Directors (2023-2026). She received the NSF CAREER award (2011), New Investigator Awards from the AAPS (2009), and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2008).