Four Weinberg College faculty at Northwestern are among the 2024 Guggenheim Fellows recently named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The faculty members are Mike Cloud, Chad Mirkin, Teri Odom, and Krista Thompson.
This year, the foundation awarded 188 …
The King Faisal Foundation has awarded the 2023 King Faisal Prize in Medicine and Science to Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin for his work in chemistry. The King Faisal Prize, established in 1979 by the King Faisal Foundation and …
Northwestern researchers recently discovered that colloidal crystals, three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles, can revert to their original structure after breaking apart.
In the study, scientists dehydrated the strands of DNA, causing them to crumple, but quickly regained their previous shape when …
Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 Faraday Medal from The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). According to the IET’s official statement, Mirkin was honored “for inventing and developing many of the tools, techniques, and materials that have …
A team of Northwestern researchers, led by Professor Chad Mirkin, have created a system for gene editing that may help future scientists develop CRISPR-based therapeutics.
The research, titled “CRISPR Spherical Nucleic Acids,” was published last week in the Journal …
Northwestern professor Chad Mirkin was awarded the 2022 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences for his work with spherical nucleic acids (SNAs). The honor is granted to researchers “who have made significant efforts through scientific research …
Chad Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, will be presented the 2022 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Award for his outstanding scientific contributions and engineering of biomaterials. The award is presented annually by Acta Materialia, …
Chad Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, was presented the G.M. Kosolapoff Award for outstanding scientific achievement for his work on vaccine design and his other advances in the science industry. The award is presented …