CHAD MIRKIN ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

6 February 2009

CHAD MIRKIN ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

CHAD MIRKIN ELECTED TO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University researcher Chad A. Mirkin, 
one of the world's leaders in the research and application of 
nanotechnology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of 
Engineering.

Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg 
College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and 
biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science 
and engineering, was cited for development of DNA-programmable 
inorganic materials and Dip-Pen Nanolithography.

Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at 
Northwestern, is renowned for his invention and development of 
biological and chemical diagnostic systems based upon nanomaterials. 
He is the inventor and chief developer of Dip-Pen Nanolithography, a 
groundbreaking nanoscale fabrication and analytical tool, and is the 
founder of Nanosphere and NanoInk, two Chicago-based companies.

He also invented On-Wire Lithography, a process for fabricating and 
structuring nanowires. It allows individuals to construct 
nanostructures that are useful in many important fields, ranging from 
medical diagnostics to highly miniaturized electronics and 
computational devices.

Mirkin has been recognized with more than 50 national and 
international awards for his advances. Last year he was selected by 
the U.S. Department of Defense as an inaugural fellow in the 
department's new National Security Science and Engineering Faculty 
Fellows (NSSEFF) Program. Mirkin also received, in 2004, the 
Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, an 
honor on par with the NSSEFF Program. He is the only person to 
receive both awards.

Other honors include the Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public 
Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical 
Society (ACS); the Havinga Medal 2009 from the University of Leiden 
in the Netherlands; the Inorganic Nanoscience Award from the ACS; the 
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences; the ACS 
Nobel Laureate Signature Award; Discover 2000 Innovation of the Year 
Award; the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology; and the Leo Hendrick 
Baekeland Award.

He is the author or coauthor of more than 360 refereed publications 
and 350 patents and applications. Mirkin serves or has served on the 
editorial advisory board of more than 22 chemistry journals and is 
founding editor of Small, one of the premier international journals 
of nanotechnology.

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