Judit Puskas
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Judit Puskas is a Distinguished Ohio State University professor noted as co-inventor of the polymer used on the Taxus-brand coronary stent.[1][2] She is the first woman to win the Charles Goodyear Medal,[3] the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society's Rubber Division. Her research focuses on polymer engineering for breast reconstruction in cancer treatment,[4] green polymer chemistry, biomimetic processes, biomaterials, living polymerization,[5] polymerization mechanisms and kinetics, thermoplastic elastomers, polymer structure/property relationships, and polymer-bio interfaces.
She received her Ph.D. in Plastics and Rubber Technology/M.E. Organic and Biochemical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest in 1985.[6] She completed a postdoc under Joseph Kennedy at the University of Akron.[7]
