Nathan C. Gianneschi

Nathan Claude Gianneschi
Alma mater	University of Adelaide B.Sc. (1999) Northwestern University Ph.D. (2005)
Awards	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science
Institutions	Northwestern University (2017–present) University of California San Diego (2008–2017) Scripps Research Institute (2005–2008)
Thesis	Supramolecular allosteric catalysts  (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Chad Mirkin, SonBinh Nguyen
Other academic advisors	Louis Rendina, Mohammadreza Ghadiri
Website	sites.northwestern.edu/gianneschigroup/

Nathan C. Gianneschi is the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University ^[1] and the Associate Director for the International Institute for Nanotechnology. ^[2] Gianneschi's lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to nanomaterials research, with a focus on multifunctional materials for biomedical applications, programmed interactions with biomolecules and cells, and basic research into nanoscale materials design, synthesis and characterization. ^[3]

Gianneschi is a Sloan Research Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a 2010 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. ^{[4] [5]}

Education and training

Gianneschi graduated with a B.Sc. (Honors) in chemistry from the University of Adelaide in 1999. ^[6] During his undergraduate, he conducted honors research with Dr. Louis Rendina on the synthesis of hydrogen-bonded platinum-containing macrocycles. ^{[7] [8]} Following this, he moved to Evanston, Illinois to pursue graduate studies at Northwestern University with Prof. Chad Mirkin and Prof. SonBinh Nguyen. There, he developed supramolecular catalysts that exhibit allosteric behavior, that is, exhibit increased reactivity when the catalyst molecule is modified at a site distinct from the catalyst site. ^{[9] [10] [11]} Gianneschi graduated in 2005 with his Ph.D. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Dow Foundation Fellow (through the American Australian Association) at The Scripps Research Institute with Prof. M. Reza Ghadiri, where he worked on a strategy to modulate natural enzymes into programmable complexes that can perform simple logic operations. ^[12]

Independent career

Gianneschi began his independent career as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego in 2008. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and full Professor in 2016. ^[13] He was appointed the Teddy Traylor Faculty Scholar and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering and NanoEngineering. ^{[13] [14]} In 2017, he moved to Northwestern University. ^[15]

References

1. "Nathan Gianneschi". Chemistry Faculty. Northwestern University.
2. "Nathan Gianneschi, Associate Director". International Institute for Nanotechnology. Northwestern University.
3. "Nathan Gianneschi, Northwestern University". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. "President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". Obama White House - Office of Science and Technology Policy. Obama White House Archives. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
5. "AIMBE Elects 2020 Fellows". American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
6. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Masar, Martin S.; Mirkin, Chad A. (2005-09-16). "Development of a Coordination Chemistry-Based Approach for Functional Supramolecular Structures" . Accounts of Chemical Research. 38 (11): 825–837. doi:10.1021/ar980101q. ISSN   0001-4842. PMID   16285706.
7. "Gianneschi, Nathan | Faculty | Northwestern Engineering". www.mccormick.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
8. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Tiekink, Edward R. T.; Rendina, Louis M. (2000-08-18). "Dinuclear Platinum Complexes with Hydrogen-Bonding Functionality: Noncovalent Assembly of Nanoscale Cyclic Arrays" . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122 (35): 8474–8479. Bibcode:2000JAChS.122.8474G. doi:10.1021/ja994483m. ISSN   0002-7863.
9. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Bertin, Paul A.; Nguyen, SonBinh T.; Mirkin, Chad A.; Zakharov, Lev N.; Rheingold, Arnold L. (2003-08-08). "A Supramolecular Approach to an Allosteric Catalyst" . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125 (35): 10508–10509. Bibcode:2003JAChS.12510508G. doi:10.1021/ja035621h. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   12940719.
10. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Cho, So-Hye; Nguyen, SonBinh T.; Mirkin, Chad A. (2004). "Reversibly Addressing an Allosteric Catalyst In Situ: Catalytic Molecular Tweezers". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43 (41): 5503–5507. doi: 10.1002/anie.200460932 . ISSN   1521-3773. PMID   15484249.
11. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Nguyen, SonBinh T.; Mirkin, Chad A. (2005). "Signal Amplification and Detection via a Supramolecular Allosteric Catalyst" . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (6): 1644–1645. Bibcode:2005JAChS.127.1644G. doi:10.1021/ja0437306. ISSN   0002-7863. PMID   15700991.
12. Gianneschi, Nathan C.; Ghadiri, M. Reza (2007). "Design of Molecular Logic Devices Based on a Programmable DNA-Regulated Semisynthetic Enzyme". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46 (21): 3955–3958. doi:10.1002/anie.200700047. ISSN   1521-3773. PMC   2790070 . PMID   17427900.
13. "PI: Nathan C. Gianneschi | The Gianneschi Group". sites.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
14. "Nathan C. Gianneschi named associate director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern". International Institute for Nanotechnology. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
15. Chemist Nathan Gianneschi to Join Northwestern, February 22, 2017