iCon Award to Chromatin's Preuss

October 15, 2008
iBIO Institute
iCON Innovator Award (University Level) - Dr. Daphne Preuss, Chromatin Inc.

Daphne Preuss, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer), is co-founder of Chromatin, Inc. and an inventor on Chromatin’s patented mini-chromosome technology. Dr. Preuss received her doctorate from MIT, and performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University. She is on leave of absence from the University of Chicago where she is the Albert D. Lasker Professor of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology. She also serves on the Board of Governors at Argonne National Laboratory, was listed by Discover Magazine as one of twenty outstanding young American scientists in 2000, and named to Chicago Crain's Business Review's "40 under 40" list of promising Chicago citizens in 2001. She is a David and Lucile Packard Fellow, a Searle Scholar, and a Lifetime National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.