Professor John A. Rogers was named a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Rogers is a professor of Chemistry and the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at the McCormick School of Engineering and at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also is the founding director of the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics (QSIB).
“This wonderful recognition belongs to a broad, talented collection of students and collaborators over the years — my name just happens to be attached,” said Professor John Rogers said. “At a personal level, this fellowship has deep significance because my mother won a Guggenheim nearly 40 years ago as a poet, for creative writing.”
Rogers will use the fellowship to continue developing wireless, bioresorbable stimulators as bioelectronic medicine.
This year, the Foundation awarded 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists from across the United States and Canada. Selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants, the fellows were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.