Chad A. Mirkin

Nanosphere, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of molecular diagnostics platform. Its platform, Verigene System, enables clinicians to identify and treat bacteria and viruses responsible for some of the most complex, costly, and deadly infectious diseases. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Robert Letsinger on December 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Northbrook, IL.

NanoInk, Inc. is an emerging growth technology company specializing in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life sciences, engineering, pharmaceutical, and education industries. Using Dip Pen Nanolithography® (DPN®), a patented and proprietary nanofabrication technology, scientists are enabled to rapidly and easily create micro-and nanoscale structures from a variety of materials on a range of substrates. This low cost, easy to use and scalable technique brings sophisticated nanofabrication to the laboratory desktop. Headquartered in the Illinois Science + Technology Park, north of Chicago, NanoInk currently has over 250 patents and applications filed worldwide and licensing agreements with Northwestern University, Stanford University, University of Strathclyde, University of Liverpool, California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Exicure Operating Co. operates as a biopharmaceutical company commercializing spherical nucleic acid constructs as gene regulation and modulation agents for diseases including applications in oncology, dermatology, neurology, and for immune disorders. The SNA constructs allow the use of oligonucleotide-based therapies to treat diseases in a range of tissue types. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Colby Shad Thaxton in 2011 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

CDJ Technologies, Inc. engages in provision of technology services. The company is headquartered in Evanston, IL.

Azul 3D, Inc. operates as a 3D printing company that allows users to print 3D structures from a wide pallet of materials. The company was founded by James Hedrick, David Walker and Chad A. Mirkin and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.

Stoicheia, Inc. is a company based in Suite 330, IL that specializes in digital materials discovery. Stoicheia uses a combination of proprietary AI and high-throughput screening technology to discover new materials that impact industries such as automotive, chemical, oil, and clean energy. The company has access to the world's largest combinatorial material libraries and uses proprietary nanocombinatoricstm and megalibrarytm platforms to enable the discovery of new materials with properties driving the development of the renewable and net-zero economy. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Andrey Ivankin, and Jeff Erhardt has been the CEO of the company since 2023.