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Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D., is the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern&#;s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Mirkin also is a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science & engineering, and medicine at Northwestern University.

Mirkin is a chemist and world-renowned nanoscience expert who is known for his discovery and development of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs) and the many medical diagnostic, therapeutic, and materials applications that have derived from them; Dip-Pen Nanolithography (recognized by National Geographic as one of the &#;top scientific discoveries that changed the world&#;) and related cantilever-free systems that are useful in tip-based chemical synthesis and materials discovery; and numerous contributions to nanoparticle synthesis and supramolecular chemistry.

Mirkin is the author of more than manuscripts, o