People
The Center’s faculty hold interdisciplinary backgrounds from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Feinberg School of Medicine.
Faculty Awards
The faculty at the Center for Synthetic Biology hold a number of awards both at the University and at the National levels.
- ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award (Julius Lucks)
- Air force Young Investigator (Neha Kamat)
- Agilent Early Career Professor Award (Michale Jewett)
- Alfred P Sloan Award (Julius Lucks), Pew Scholar (Arthur Prindle)
- American Chemical Society Biological Technologies Division Young Investigator Award (Michael Jewett)
- Army Research Office Young Investigator (Arthur Prindle)
- Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award (Michael Jewett)
- Blavatnik Fellow in the Life Sciences (Michael Jewett)
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (Milan Mrksich, Michael Jewett, Julius Lucks)
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (Milan Mrksich)
- Charles Deering McCormick Professor Teaching Excellence (Joshua Leonard, Michael Jewett)
- DARPA Young Investigator (Michael Jewett, Julius Lucks)
- iBIO iCON Innovator Award (Milan Mrksich)
- NIH New Innovator Award (Julius Lucks)
- NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Michael Jewett)
- NSF Career Award (Neda Bagheri, Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Keith Tyo, Julius Lucks)
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (Julius Lucks)
- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (Arthur Prindle, Michael Jewett)
- Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award (Milan Mrksich)
- Searle Scholar Award (Milan Mrksich)
- TR100 Young Innovator Award (Milan Mrksich)
- 3M Non-tenured Faculty Grant (Joshua Leonard, Michael Jewett)