Henry Wade Rogers Professor
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Milan Mrksich
Vice President For Research
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Milan Mrksich
Publications
Patents
Graduated PhD Students
Previous Postdocs
Academic Employment History
Vice President for Research, Northwestern University
2020-2023
Milan was appointed Vice President for Research at Northwestern in May 2020. He previously served as Interim Vice President for Research from October 2019 to April 2020.
Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology
Northwestern University
2011-Present
After departing the University of Chicago, Milan was named the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern. He also has appointments in Chemistry and Cell & Developmental Biology.
Professor of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
1996-2011
Milan’s first professorial position was at the University of Chicago. He was named Associate Professor of Chemistry in 2000 and Full Professor of Chemistry in 2003.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
1994-1996
After getting his PhD at Caltech, Milan was employed as a postdoc at Harvard University in George Whitesides’ laboratory.
Education
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
1994-1996
Milan received an ACS Fellowship for his work in the George Whitesides Group at Harvard.
PhD in Organic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
1989-1994
Milan completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry at Caltech. His advisor was Peter B. Dervan, an internationally-renowned organic chemist.
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1985-1989
Milan completed his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. His advisor was organic chemist Steven C. Zimmerman.
Other Major Academic Positions
Interim Vice President FOR Research, Northwestern University
2019-2020
Director, Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University
2016-2019
Associate Director for Technology, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University
2015-2019
Associate Director, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Northwestern University
2001-2015
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2005-2013
Service and Advisory Positions
DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council
1996-2015; 2006-2008, Chair
Editorial Board of Langmuir
1997-2012
Scientific Advisory Board of Cellomics
1998-2000
Scientific Advisory Board of ChemoCentryx
1999-2007
Scientific Advisory Board of Surface Logix
1999-2005
Editorial Board of E-Biomed: The Journal of Regenerative Medicine
2000-2003
WTEC Panel for International Evaluation of Tissue Engineering Programs
2000
Chair for NIH/BECON Symposium on Biosensors
2001
National Institutes of Health BECM Study Section
2002-2007; 2005-07, Chair
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.
2002-2005
Science and Technology Advisory Committee for Argonne National Laboratory
2002-2003
Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
2003-2008
Scientific Advisory Board of Helicos
2003-2008
Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience
2004-2010
Editorial Board of Chemistry & Biology
2004
Editorial Board of Chemical Society Reviews
2004-2007
Advisory Board of the Searle Scholars Program
2004-2009; 2007-Present, Chair
Founder and Scientific Advisory Board of WMR Biomedical, Inc (NASDAQ:LYRA)
2005-2010
Scientific Advisory Board of NanoInk, Inc.
2007-2011
Editorial Advisory Board of Small
2008-Present
Editorial Board of Disruptive Science and Technology
2011-2013
Editorial Board of Disruptive Science and Technology
2011-2013
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAMDI Tech, Inc
2011-2023
National Institutes of Health Tr01 Study Section
2010-2014; 2013-14, Chair
Advisory Professor, Institute of Chemical Biology and Nanomedicine, Hunan University (China)
2014-2018
Visiting Professor, Institute for Nanomedicine at NTU, Singapore
2015-2019
Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Biology
2016-Present
External Advisory Board for the Center for Nano-Biotechnology at CWRU
2017-2019
External Advisory Board for the Cancer Center at the University of Illinois
2017-2020
Advisory Board for the NewCores Accelerator Program
2017-Present
Scientific Advisor for SLAS Technology
2018-Present
External Advisory Board for the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the City of Hope
2018-2020
Scientific Director of the Searle Scholars Program
2019-Present
Founder and Director, ModuMab Therapeutics, Inc.
2019-Present
Board of Directors, Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
2022-Present
Consultant, Charles River Laboratories, Inc.
2023-Present
Scientific Advisory Board, Tasca Therapeutics, Inc.
2024-Present