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David Needham

Professor Emeritus in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
3391 Fciemas Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708-0300
3391 Fciemas Building, Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


How to Reverse Engineer Anything as an Invention and Innovation Generator: Anti-cancer treatments from bench-to-bedside and bench-to-kennels - Symposia: Scientific Excursions and Diversions series (moderator, Mike Smith) · April 6, 2021 Invited Talk Duke Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI) , zoom
The Primacy of Learning: A “Brief” overview of my evolving educational pedagogy - Graduate Student Seminar Series · February 21, 2020 Invited Talk Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
Reverse Engineering: How did Nature Solve the “deliver fats in the body” problem? and How can we use this in drug delivery? - Graduate Student Seminar Series · November 15, 2019 Invited Talk Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
Endogenous-Inspired Anti-Cancer Therapeutics: “Make the drug look like the cancer’s food” - DCI Prostate and Urologic Cancers forum · September 10, 2019 Invited Talk Duke University Medical School, Snyderman Genome Research Sciences Building
Endogenous-Inspired Anti-Cancer Therapeutics: The twists and turns of the design process when one attempts to “make the drug look like the cancer’s food” - Department of Biological Sciences Seminar series · April 15, 2019 Invited Talk California State University, Los Angeles,