January 24, 2018
A past CBC awardee Chad Mirkin, NU, to add prestigious 2018 Remsen Memorial Lecture Award to the fast growing list of his accolades
Congratulations to Chad Mirkin, NU, for being recognized with prestigious 2018 Remsen Memorial Lecture Award for his outstanding discoveries in chemistry. Chad Mirkin is a co-recipient of a CBC Lever Award (2010) for the project: “Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics.”
Chad Mirkin to receive prestigious Remsen Memorial Lecture Award
With recognition, Mirkin joins list of scientific luminaries, including 17 Nobel laureates
Northwestern Now | by Megan Fellman | January 11, 2018
Chad Mirkin, NU
EVANSTON – Northwestern University’s Chad A. Mirkin will receive the prestigious Remsen Memorial Lecture Award for his outstanding discoveries in chemistry. The award is presented annually by the American Chemical Society Maryland Section, in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins department of chemistry.
Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern.
The Remsen Award was created in 1946 in honor of Ira Remsen, the first chairman of the chemistry department and the second president at Johns Hopkins University. The honor recognizes chemists of outstanding achievements, mirroring Remsen’s long career as a professor and researcher. Remsen awardees include scientists Edward Teller, Willard Libby, R.B. Woodward, Charles Townes, Roald Hoffman and Robert Grubbs. To date, 17 Nobel laureates have received Remsen Awards.
“It is a tremendous privilege to receive the Remsen Award and to know that I share this honor with the world’s most accomplished chemists, in some cases, historical icons who have inspired aspects of my work,” Mirkin said. “I sincerely thank the ACS Maryland Section and the Johns Hopkins department of chemistry for this extraordinary honor.”
Mirkin will give the 73rd Remsen Memorial Lecture on Nov. 15 in Baltimore. Following his remarks, he will receive a plaque and $2,500 honorarium.
Mirkin is a world-renowned chemist and expert in nanotechnology, primarily noted for his invention of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) used in materials and colloidal crystal engineering, extracellular and intracellular molecular diagnostics, gene regulation and immune modulation. Currently, SNAs are the basis for more than 1,600 commercial products, including four drugs undergoing human clinical trials.
Mirkin is a professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering. He is one of very few scientists, engineers and medical doctors to be elected to all three branches of the U.S. National Academies — the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.
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Adapted (with modifications) from Northwestern Now, by Megan Fellman, posted on January 11, 2018.
See also:
CBC Awards:
CBC Lever Award (2011):
PIs: Chad Mirkin and Milan Mrksich (NU), David Eddington (UIC) and Joel Collier (UChicago) for the project:
▸ Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics