Tales from the Trenches: Dr. Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University

Dr. Chad Mirkin is a world-renowned chemist who has taken an entrepreneurial approach to his nanotechnology research. He is the director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry. He is also a professor of chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science and engineering and medicine at Northwestern University. Dr. Mirkin is known for the invention of the spherical nucleic acid and its development in b...