Edward Sacher was educated in the New York City school system, graduating from Stuyvesant High School. He received a BS in Chemistry from CCNY and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Penn State, followed by three years of postdoctoral study at Ohio State and the University of Ottawa. Subsequently, he was a Research Chemist at the Dupont Experimental Station, then an Advisory Chemist at the IBM Materials Laboratory. At Polytechnique Montréal, his rank was Chercheur III (equivalent to Full Professor of Research in an English-speaking university); he is presently an Adjunct Professor (a “retired” professor doing full time research). His present interests are in nanoparticle characterization, functionalization and cytotoxicity. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and of the IEEE.