Henry Daniell is W. D. Miller Professor and Vice Chair, School of Dental Medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from M.K. University in 1980 and completed a Post-Doctoral at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign (Biochemistry) in 1980-1983. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 2007), a foreign member of the Italian National Academy of Sciences (since 2004, the 14th American to be inducted in the past 240 years), and the Founding Editor, Editor in Chief and Editor Emeritus of the Plant Biotechnology Journal, Oxford, UK. He has been honored for his groundbreaking work by organizations including the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the recipient of the Bayer Healthcare Global Award. He pioneered chloroplast genetic engineering as a new platform to produce and orally deliver low-cost vaccines and biopharmaceuticals bioencapsulated in plant cells. Scholar GPS ranks Dr. Daniell the #1 scientist globally in several fields, including genetic engineering, plant breeding, and general dentistry, and #4 in Biopharmaceuticals. He is a Fellow of the Environmental Innovations Institute at Penn and a featured speaker at TEDxPenn in 2023.
