Patrick Couvreur, born 1950 in Schaerbeek (Brussels),[1] is a French pharmacologist who specialises in medical nanotechnology and is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud.
[2] Couvreur was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for advances in nanomedicine and commercialization of targeted nanotechnology systems for cancer treatment.
[2] He received a Doctorate in pharmaceutical science in 1975 from the same university,[2] where he worked in the laboratory next door to the Belgian Nobel Prize winner,[4] Christian de Duve, who was an inspiration for his subsequent career.
[6] In 2009–2010, he held the Liliane Bettencourt Chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France.
[9] In the same year he received 2,2 million euros of funding from the European Research Council (ERC).