Faculty Awards

Professor Julius Lucks was named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read about it here. (April 2023)

Professor Guillermo Ameer was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2023)

Professor Neha Kamat received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Read about it here. (December 2021)

Professor Guillermo Ameer was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Read about it here. (October 2021)

Professor Chad Mirkin will receive the 2022 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal. Read about it here. (June 2021)

Professor Linda Broadbelt was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2021)

Professor Erica Hartmann received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Read about it here. (April 2021)

Professor Shelby Blythe has been named a 2020 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Read about it here. (June 2020)

Professor Julius Lucks was named a finalist for the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists. Read about it here. (June 2020) 

Professor Andrew Miri was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Read about it here. (February 2020)

Professor Guillermo Ameer was named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Read about it here. (December 2019)

Professor Chad Mirkin won the Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine from Northwestern. Read about it here. (July 2019)

Professor Guillermo Ameer received the Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern. Read about it here. (June 2019)

Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Read about it here. (March 2019)

Professor Guillermo Ameer has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read about it here. (November 2018)

Professor Amy Rosenzweig was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Read about her election here. (April 2018)

Professor Christian Petersen was awarded the Elizabeth D. Hay New Investigator Award. Read about it here. (January 2018)

Professor Andrew Miri was selected as a Next Generation Leader by the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Read about it here. (November 2017)

Professor Heather Pinkett received a Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award. Read about it here. (May 2017)

Professor Julius Lucks was selected to receive a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Read about it here. (May 2017)

Professor Marco Gallio has been selected as a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Read about it here. (June 2016)

Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Read about it here. (February 2016)

Professor Chad Mirkin has been recognized with the Dan David Prize in the Future Time Dimension. Read about it here. (February 2016)

Professor Evan Scott has received the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. Read about it here. (October 2015)

Professor Chad Mirkin has been awarded the Sackler Prize in Convergence Research from the National Academy of Sciences. Read about it here. (September 2015)

Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy has been named a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Read about it here. (August 2015)

Professor Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy has been named a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar. Read about it here. (July 2015)

Professors Evan Scott and Keith Tyo have received Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation. Read about it here. (March 2015)

Professor Neil Kelleher has been named an Allen Distinguished Investigator. Read about it here. (April 2014)

Professor Amy Rosenzweig has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2014)

Professor Christian Petersen has received the National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. Read about it here. (October 2013)

Professor Richard Morimoto has received the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his work in expanding Franco-American cooperation in the sciences. Read about it here. (June 2013)

Professor Chad Mirkin has been named 2013 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Read about it here. (May 2013)

Professor Sadie Wignall has been chosen as a recipient of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Read about it here. (April 2013)

Professor Luis Amaral has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read about it here. (November 2012)

Professor Vadim Backman has received a 2012 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health. Read about it here. (September 2012)

Professor Kelly Mayo has been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read about it here. (January 2012)

Professors Chad Mirkin and Richard Morimoto were elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2011)

Professor David McLean was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. Read about it here. (February 2011)

Professor Chad Mirkin was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is the first at Northwestern and in the Midwest and the 10th in the world to be elected to all three branches of the National Academies. Read about it here. (September 2010)

Professor Heather Pinkett was named a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Read about it here. (June 2010)

Professor Chad Mirkin was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Read about it here. (April 2010)