Arrowhead Research
Corporation (Nasdaq: ARWR) today announced that the Company's Scientific
Advisory Board member Dr. Chad Mirkin has been appointed to the President's
Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST is part of the
Executive Office of the President and is administered by the Office of Science
and Technology Policy.
PCAST was established in 1990 to enable the President of the United States
to receive advice from the private sector and academic community on issues related
to technology, scientific research priorities and math and science education.
President Obama announced the new membership of PCAST on April 27, 2009, which
includes 20 of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers.
Dr. Christopher Anzalone, Arrowhead’s President and CEO, stated, “We
congratulate Dr. Mirkin on this distinguished honor which recognizes a career
of outstanding accomplishments both as a leading nanotechnology researcher and
successful entrepreneur in the field. Dr. Mirkin has been a valuable advisor
to Arrowhead, and we view this appointment as an endorsement of his key role
in making nanotechnology a driving force for innovation. We wish him the very
best as he contributes his extraordinary knowledge and perspectives to President
Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.”
More information about PCAST is available at http://www.ostp.gov/cs/pcast.
Dr. Chad Mirkin - Biography
Dr. Chad Mirkin has been recognized for his accomplishments with over 50 national
and international Awards. These include a iCON Innovator of the Year Award (2007),
NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the Collegiate Inventors Award (2002, 2004),
an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Dickinson College, the Pennsylvania State
University Outstanding Science Alumni Award, the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature
Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, a Dickinson College Metzger-Conway
Fellowship, the 2003 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences,
the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the Leo Hendrick Baekeland Award, Crain’s
Chicago Business “40 under 40 Award,” the Discover 2000 Award for
Technological Innovation, I-Street Magazine’s Top 5 List for Leading Academics
in Technology, the Materials Research Society Young Investigator Award, the
ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, the PLU Fresenius Award, the Harvard University
E. Bright Wilson Prize, the BF Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, the Camille
Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, the DuPont
Young Professor Award, the NSF Young Investigator Award, the Naval Young Investigator
Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and the Dreyfus Foundation New
Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of over twenty scholarly
journals. At present he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of Accounts
of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, BioMacromolecules,
Macromolecular Bioscience, SENSORS, Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,
Chemistry-A European Journal, Chemistry & Biology, Nanotechnology Law &
Business, The Scientist, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and Journal of Cluster
Science, Plasmonics. Dr. Mirkin is the founding editor of the journal Small,
one of the premier international nanotechnology journals, and he has co–edited
two bestselling books on the field of nanobiotechnology.
Dr. Mirkin holds a B.S. degree from Dickinson College (1986, elected into Phi
Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University
(1989). He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology prior to becoming a chemistry professor at Northwestern University
in 1991.