2025 Nadrian C. Seeman Nanoscience Prize – Prof. Chad A. Mirkin

Chad A. Mirkin is the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is known for his invention and development of spherical nucleic acids, a foundation of the field of structural nanomedicine; his invention and development of Dip-Pen Nanolithography and related cantilever-free nanopatterning and materials discovery methodologies; the delineation of the concept of the nanoparticle “atom” and the nucleic acid “bond” that underpins colloidal crystal engineering with DNA; and contributions to nanoparticle synthesis and supramolecular chemistry.  He has authored >900 papers and >1,200 patents and applications worldwide (>430 issued) and founded 11 companies. Prof. Mirkin has been recognized with over 250 national and international awards, including the Wilhelm Exner Medal, the Dan David Prize, the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, and the King Faisal Prize from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He served for eight years on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, and he is one of few scientists to be elected to all three US National Academies.