Tom Meade Named iCON Innovator Awardee

30 September 2009

Tom Meade Named iCON Innovator Awardee

Tom Meade has been named the 2009  iCON Innovator Award (University Level)  winner.  The iCON Award was developed to recognize the important role of education, research, and training in fostering growth and in building the next generation of Midwest biotechnology and life sciences innovators and leaders. This award celebrates the achievements of leaders who nurture education, training, and scholarship in the life sciences in Illinois. The award will be presented to Tom on October 15th, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. Past award winners include Chad Mirkin.

 Dr. Meade is The Eileen M. Foell Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Physiology and Radiology at Northwestern University. His revolutionary research focuses on coordination chemistry and its application in bioinorganic problems that include biological molecular imaging, electron transfer processes and the development of electronic biosensors for the detection of DNA and proteins. Dr. Meade joined Northwestern University in 2002 and is the only professor to have four different faculty department appointments. Dr. Meade is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record. He has founded four successful start-up companies based on his research at Caltech and Northwestern; Clinical Micro Sensors (CMS), which is involved in the electrochemical detection of nucleic acids, and Metaprobe (now Alerion Biomedical), which focuses on in vivo biochemically-activated magnetic resonance contrast agents. CMS was sold to Motorola in 2000 for more than $300 million. Dr. Meade is currently the inventor on more than 70 patents and patent applications.

Previous honors, awards, or recognition he has received: Miller Professor, University of California Berkeley (2009), Northwestern University Excellence in Teaching Award (2008), Beaumont Award, Wayne County Medical Society (2007), Eileen Foell Chair in Cancer Research, Northwestern University (2005), Founder, Ohmx Inc., Evanston IL (2005), Founder, PreDx Corp., Evanston IL (2005), Elected President – Society of Molecular Imaging – Membership >1,000 (2004), FMC Award, Princeton University (2004), Elkin Distinguished Investigators Cancer Lecturer, Emory University (2003), Neuroscience Award Lecture, Society for Neuro-Oncology (November 2002), National Academy of Engineering Lecturer, Cleveland OH (2000), Founder, Imaging in 2020 conference (1999-2009).