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 Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation (Neil Kelleher)
- ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award (Julius Lucks)
- Air Force Young Investigator (Neha Kamat)
- Agilent Early Career Professor Award (Michael Jewett)
- Alfred P Sloan Award (Neil Kelleher, Julius Lucks)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (Linda, Broadbelt, Michael Jewett, Amy Rosenzweig)
- American Chemical Society Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry (Amy Rosenzweig)
- American Chemical Society Biological Technologies Division Young Investigator Award (Michael Jewett)
- American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow (Linda Broadbelt, Michael Jewett)
- Army Research Office Young Investigator (Arthur Prindle)
- Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award (Michael Jewett, Danielle Tullman-Ercek)
- Blavatnik Fellow in the Life Sciences (Michael Jewett, Julius Lucks)
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (Milan Mrksich, Michael Jewett, Neil Kelleher, Julius Lucks, Amy Rosenzweig)
- Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award (Neil Kelleher, Milan Mrksich)
- Charles Deering McCormick Professor Teaching Excellence (Joshua Leonard, Michael Jewett)
- Crain's 2020 Notable Women in STEM (Linda Broadbelt)
- DARPA Young Investigator (Michael Jewett, Julius Lucks)
- Early Career Award: Institute for Substainability and Energy at Northwestern (Keith Tyo)
- Ernest W. Thiele Award, Chicago Section, AIChE (Linda Broadbelt)
- E. V. Murphree Award In Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, ACS (Linda Broadbelt)
- Exxon Knowledge Build Award (Danielle Tullman-Ercek)
- Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award (Linda Broadbelt)
- Gaden Award, Biotechnology and Bioengineering (Linda Broadbelt)
- H Foundation Intra-Programmatic Synergy Award (Arthur Prindle)
- Hans Neurath Award (Amy Rosenzweig)
- Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Scholar Award (Arthur Prindle)
- iBIO iCON Innovator Award (Milan Mrksich)
- Ivano Bertini Award (Amy Rosenzweig)
- MacArthur Fellow (Amy Rosenzweig)
- National Academy of Engineering (Linda Broadbelt)
- National Academy of Sciences (Amy Rosenzweig)
- National Academy of Inventors (Michael Jewett)
- NIH New Innovator Award (Julius Lucks, Gabriel Rocklin)
- NIH Pathway to Independence Award (Michael Jewett)
- NSF Career Award (Neda Bagheri, Linda Broadbelt, Neil Kelleher, Danielle Tullman-Ercek, Keith Tyo, Julius Lucks)
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (Julius Lucks)
- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (Arthur Prindle, Neil Kelleher, Michael Jewett, Amy Rosenzweig)
- Pew Scholar (Arthur Prindle)
- Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award (Milan Mrksich)
- Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (Neil Kelleher)
- Royal Society of Chemistry Joseph Chatt Award (Amy Rosenzweig)
- Searle Scholar Award (Neil Kelleher, Milan Mrksich)
- TedX Speaker (Joshua Leonard)
- TR100 Young Innovator Award (Milan Mrksich)
- 3M Non-tenured Faculty Grant (Joshua Leonard, Michael Jewett)