Category: Awards/Honors

Dr. neda Bagheri, The Center for Synthetic Biology Faculty member, has received a Faculty Early Career Devolpment Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). More info:  https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/february/neda-bagheri-receives-prestigious-honor-for-young-faculty

Prof. Michael Jewett has been awarded the ACS Biochemical Technology Young Investigator Award and will deliver a keynote lecture at the Annual ACS Meeting in Spring 2017.   http://www.acsbiot.org/index.php/meetings/2017-meetings/

Center Director Milan Mrksich has received the iCON Innovator Award. He will be recognized with fellow awardees Mayor Richard Daley and pharmaceutical executive Norbert Riedel at the Awards Banquet at the … Continued

The national award honors young faculty members in the chemical sciences who demonstrate leadership in research and education.

Keith Tyo is one of five McCormick faculty members to have received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Keith Tyo has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 ISEN Early Career Investigator Award.

A team of McCormick students took top honors last month at a regional competition for iGEM, an undergraduate synthetic biology competition.

Jewett will use the award to advance his research on developing cell-free synthetic biology for biomanufacturing new classes of life-saving drugs, sustainable fuels and novel materials from renewable resources.