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Chad Mirkin,
Ph.D.
Northwestern University
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Chad A. Mirkin, is the George B. Rathmann Professor
of Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Nanotechnology
and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly
at Northwestern University. His research interests
include bio-inspired materials chemistry, nanoparticles,
surface chemistry, synthetic organometallic chemistry,
electrochemistry, coordination chemistry, atomic force
microscopy, synchrotron x-ray methods, and high resolution
lithography.
Mirkin earned his BS degree in chemistry (1986) from
Dickinson College and his PhD degree in chemistry
from Pennsylvania State University (1989). He was
a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow
in chemistry from 1989 to 1991 at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Mirkin has authored over 120 manuscripts, co-authored
20 patents, and won several awards for his contributions
to chemistry, including the Discover 2000 Innovation
Award, the MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award,
the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the PLU Fresnius
Award, the E. Bright Wilson Prize, the BFGoodrich
Collegiate Invertors Award, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher
-Scholar Award, a Beckman Young Investigator Award,
and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Dupont
Young Professor Award, an NSF Young Investigator Award,
a Naval Young Investigator Award, and a Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award. Mirkin
also consults for several major chemical companies
and is on the board of directors and scientific advisory
boards of Nanosphere Inc. and NanoInk Inc. He also
serves on the advisory board of several scholarly
journals, including Advanced Materials, Biomacromolecules,
Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry: A New European
Journal, Chemistry of Materials, Sensors and Journal
of Cluster Science.
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