Bob received his BS from the University of Rochester in 1994 and his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1999, both in Chemical Engineering. He is also a member of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and serves as the faculty advisor to Order of the Engineer Link #23. Prof. Parker won the NSF CAREER Award in 2002 and the Carnegie Science Center Award for Excellence in Higher Education in 2008 for the Pitt Pillars Curriculum. The Parker lab works primarily in the area of systems medicine - the integration of systems engineering and biology/medicine to aid the human condition - with disease foci in cancer chemotherapy, diabetes, and inflammation.