Judit E. Puskas

Professor
The University of Akron
Dept of Polymer Science
Akron, OH
USA 44325
Email: jpuskas@uakron.edu

Biographical Sketch: Puskas was Group Leader of Butyl Technology in the Rubber Division of Bayer Inc. (now LANXESS Inc.) before she left industry. From 1998 to 2003 she held the Bayer/NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Industrial Research Chair in Elastomer technology, and was the Director of the Macromolecular Engineering Research Centre at the University of Western Ontario in Canada from 1996 to 2004. In August of 2004, she joined the Faculty in the Department of Polymer Science of the University of Akron, where she held the LANXESS (previously Bayer) Chair in polymer science until 2008. She has been awarded her third NSF grant in 2008. As a coinventor of the polymer used on the Taxus® coronary stent, she helped the University of Akron to generate more than $5 million in license fees. Her expertise includes biomaterials, rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers and controlled polymerizations.

Papers:
5 Novel Method for the Preparation of Disulfide Polymers and Gels 26 PLENARY SPEAKER-Unraveling the Mystery of Natural Rubber Biosynthesis