Milan Mrksich
Education:
| 1989 |
B.S. in Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois |
| 1994 |
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
Research Experience and Positions:
| 1987-1989 |
Undergraduate Research Assistant with Professor Steven C. Zimmerman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois |
| 1989-1994 |
Graduate Research Assistant with Professor Peter B. Dervan California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
| 1994-1996 |
Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor George M. Whitesides Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1996-2000 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago |
| 1997- | Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago |
| 2000-2003 | Associate Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago |
| 2001- | Associate Director, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Northwestern |
| 2003- | Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago |
| 2005- | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Research Interests: Biomaterials and interfaces; Cell adhesion and migration; Electroactive interfaces; Physical organic chemistry of interfacial reactions; Bio-Inspired Nanostructured Materials; Biochips. |
Honors:
| 1989 | University of Illinois Marvel Undergraduate Research Award |
| 1990-1993 | National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award |
| 1993-1994 | Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Graduate Fellow |
| 1994-1996 | American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 1996-1999 | Searle Scholar Award |
| 1996-2001 | Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award |
| 2000 | Sloan Research Fellow |
| 2000 | Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award |
| 2000 | Sara Jane Rhoads and Rebecca Raulins Lecturer, University of Wyoming |
| 2002 | TR100 Young Innovator Award |
| 2002 | R.C. Fuson Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois |
| 2003 | ACS Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award |
Service and Advisory Positions:
| 1996- | DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council (2004-, Vice-Chair) |
| 1997- | Editorial Board of Langmuir |
| 1999- | Scientific Advisory Board of ChemoCentryx |
| 1999- | Scientific Advisory Board of Surface Logix |
| 2000 | WTEC Panel for International Evaluation of Tissue Engineering Programs |
| 2001 | Extramural Chair for NIH/BECON Symposium on Biosensors |
| 2002- | National Institutes of Health EBT Study Section |
| 2002 | International Panel for Review of Materials Research in United Kingdom |
| 2002 | WTEC Panel for International Evaluation of Biosensor Programs |
| 2002- | Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc. |
| 2002-2003 | Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Argonne National Laboratory |
| 2003- | Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory |
| 2003- | Scientific Advisory Board of Helicos |
| 2004- | Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience |
| 2004- | Editorial Board of Chemistry & Biology |
| 2004- | Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program |
| 2004- | Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical Society Reviews |