Vladimir Petrovich Torchilin (; born 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and American biochemist, pharmacologist, and an expert in medical nanotechnology. Torchillin is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University. He also serves as a director at both the Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine and at the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine at Northeastern University.
Torchillin researches topics like liposomes, lipid-core micelles, biomedical polymers, drug delivery and targeting, pharmaceutical nanocarriers and experimental cancer immunology.
Torchilin was awarded a Master of Science in Polymer Chemistry from Moscow State University in 1968. In 1971 and 1980, he went on to receive his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Doctor of Science in Polymer Chemistry and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds, respectively.
In 1991, Torchillin became the head of the chemistry program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and associate professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. From 1998 to 2008, he served as the chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University. In 2012, Torchillin became a distinguished professor at Northeastern University.
In addition to his scientific work, Torchilin publishes essays and short stories in Russian and American magazines and newspapers.
In 2021, Torchilin was acknowledged as the top-cited researcher, amongst 131,000 researchers, in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy, Clinical Medicine Category, according Elsevier.com. Torchilin has published over 400 papers, 150 reviews and written and edited 10 books. <br>
Torchilin has published the following short stories for children:
The following is a series of academic handbooks by Torchilin, published at Jenny Stanford Publishing, on biomedical nanotechnology: