Vladimir Petrovich Torchilin (Russian: Владимир Петрович Торчилин, born 1946) is a Soviet, Russian and American biochemist, pharmacologist , and an expert in medical nanotechnology. Since 1991 lives in the USA. Since 1993-1999 he was with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 he is with Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1998-2008 as Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and as of 2005, Distinguished Professor and as of 2013, University Distinguished Professor and Director of Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine of Northeastern University.