Jindřich Henry Kopeček, received his Ph.D. in Macromolecular Chemistry from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and D.Sc. in Chemistry from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. His postdoctoral studies were done at the National Research Council of Canada. Before joining the University of Utah in 1986 Kopeček served as Principal Investigator and Laboratory Head in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah.  He served as President of the Controlled Release Society (1995-1996), Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (1999-2004), Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology (2004), and Chair of the Biomaterials and Interfaces Study Section at the National Institutes of Health (2003-2006).  Prof. Kopeček serves on Editorial Boards of 14 international scientific journals. His awards include the Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society (1999), Millennial Pharmaceutical Scientist Award (2000), Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award (2001), Distinguished International Scientist Award of the Japanese Biomaterials Society (2006), Honorary Professorship, Sichuan University, China (2007), Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journal of Drug Targeting (2011), Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa degree from the University of Helsinki, Finland (2014), and T. & A. Higuchi Memorial Lectureship Award, Academy of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Japan (2018). Kopeček is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering (2011). His research interests are focused on biorecognition of macromolecules, bioconjugate chemistry, drug delivery systems, self-assembled biomaterials, and drug-free macromolecular therapeutics. Hydrogels from his laboratory have been in clinical use and HPMA copolymer - anticancer drug conjugates in clinical trials.  Kopeček is a coauthor of more than 430 scientific papers; his Hirsch index is 91 and his publications have been cited 28,651 times (Google Scholar 04/29/2018).

• Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics, University of Utah, 2002 to present
• Chairman, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, 1999 to 2004
• Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Utah, 1989 to 2002
• Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, 1987 to 2010
• Co-Director, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, 1986 to 2017
• Director, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, 2017 to present
• Visiting Professor: Université Paris-Nord, 1983, 2000; University of Utah 1986-1988; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1995; Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 2000.
• Head, Laboratory of Biodegradable Polymers, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1980-1988
• Member, Committee on New Polymers, Ministry of Health, Czechoslovakia 1976-1986 (approval of clinical uses of polymeric materials)
• Head, Laboratory of Medical Polymers, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1972-1980
• Research Scientific Officer, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 1965-1967 and 1969-1972