William G. Pitt is a Professor of Chemical Engineering Faculty at the Brigham Young University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is noted for research in the areas of polymeric biomedical materials and drug delivery, ultrasonically triggered drug delivery, which may permit the delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs to the sites of cancerous tumors without affecting the rest of the body. His recent activity is in rapid antibiotic susceptibility diagnostics in microfluidic devices. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a member of that Institute, and also of the Society for Biological Engineering, Society for Biomaterials, and the Controlled Release Society.