About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
Milan Mrksich, Ph.D.
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago
Milan Mrksich and the research group he leads work at the interface between a material and a biological environment. They use self-assembled monolayers to design and synthesize surfaces with well defined structures and properties in programs that are largely problem-driven, address both fundamental and applied questions and generally operate at the nanoscale.
Mrksich, who is also Associate Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Northwestern University, joined the faculty at the University of Chicago as an assistant professor of Chemistry in 1996 after two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
He is Vice Chair of the DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council and a member of the editorial boards of Langmuir, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Chemistry & Biology and Chemical Society Reviews. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of ChemoCentryx, Surface Logix, and Helicos, and on the advisory board of the Searle Scholars Program and the National Institutes of Health EBT Study Section. He has served on World Technology Evaluation Center panels for International Evaluation of Tissue Engineering Programs and for International Evaluation of Biosensor Programs, the International Panel for Review of Materials Research in the United Kingdom and the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Inc. He was named to Argonne 's Board of Governors in 2003.
In addition to a range of undergraduate and graduate fellowships and awards, his honors include the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2000), the TR100 Young Innovator Award (2002) and the ACS Arthur C. Cope Young Scholar Award (2003).
