Chad Mirkin
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Chad A. Mirkin is a Northwestern University professor. He is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director of the International Institute forNanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern. He received his B.S. degree from Dickinson College in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Penn State University in 1989. Professor Chad Mirkin is also the founder of NanoInk, a Chicago based nanoscale-manufacturing company. He is also the driving force behind NanoSphere, another nanotechnology start-up company [1].
The focus of his research is on developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the 1 - 100 nm length scale, and on utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools that can be used in the areas of chemical and biological sensing, lithography, catalysis, and optics. Mirkin has pioneered the use of biomolecules as synthons in materials science and the development of nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics.
On April 28, 2009, it was announced that Mirkin was appointed to President Barack Obama's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. [2]
Chad Mirkin's Most Significant Awards Include
- 2009 Lemelson-MIT Prize
- 2007 Elected Alumni Fellow, Penn State University
- 2004 NIH Director's Pioneer Award
- 2004 Collegiate Inventors Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2004 Pennsylvania State University Outstanding Science Alumni Award
- 2004 Dickinson College Honorary Degree
- 2004 ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award
- 2003 Collegiate Inventors Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2003 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize
- 2002 Feynman Prize
- 2001 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award
- 1999 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry