Professor Thomas O’Halloran has been named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI fellow status is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.
O’Halloran is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and a professor of medicine in the hematology and oncology division in the Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the founding director of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), the director of the Center for Developmental Therapeutics, and the director of Quantitative Bio-element Imaging Center.
“It is a wonderful honor, and a tribute to the teams with whom I have worked, to be selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors,” O’Halloran said. “It is quite rewarding to see that our discoveries regarding the inorganic chemistry of living organisms have led to the development of new medicines and diagnostic tools. I am particularly looking forward to working with my colleagues at NAI to educate and mentor the next generation of inventors.”
Learn about O’Halloran’s research in this Northwestern Now story.
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