Kathryn Whitehead

Kathryn Ann Whitehead
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Alma materUniversity of Delaware
University of California, Santa Barbara
Scientific career
InstitutionsKoch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Carnegie Mellon University
ThesisSafe and effective methods for improving the oral delivery of macromolecules (2007)
Websitehttp://whitehead.cheme.cmu.edu

Kathryn Ann Whitehead (born 1980) is an American chemical engineer who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on the engineering of nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems for gene therapy, oral macromolecular delivery systems, and maternal and infant therapeutics. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 and as Fellow of the Controlled Release Society.