Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern Universi
pharmaceutical sciences
SAMDI Tech
United States of America
Biography
Milan Mrksich joined Northwestern University in 2011, after fifteen years at the University of Chicago. He currently holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Cell & Molecular Biology. Dr. Mrksich has held advisory positions on the Board of Governors of Argonne National Laboratory, the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and several academic and editorial boards. He has received many honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers, the Arthur Cope Scholar Award, the TR100 Young Innovator Award, and to the list of the top 100 high-impact chemists. He is also a Founder of Arsenal Medical and 480 Biomedical. Dr. Mrksich received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1994 and then served as an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University prior to starting his independent career.
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