THE CARL S. MARVEL CREATIVE POLYMER CHEMISTRY AWARD

2017

The Division was delighted to present the 2017 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award to Professor Theresa Reineke from the University of Minnesota.  After a PhD from Michigan and a postdoc at Caltech, Theresa Reineke joined the faculty at Cincinnati. She served as an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, before moving to her current position as Lloyd Reyerson Professor of Chemistry at Minnesota.  She is known internationally for her pioneering work in the development of novel carbohydrate-based polymers for the cellular delivery of RNA and DNA, for creation of “theranostic” agents, and for the design of polymeric excipients for drug delivery.

The award was established in 1980 to recognize and encourage accomplishments and/or innovation of unusual merit in the field of basic or applied polymer science by younger scientists.

 A symposium to recognize Dr. Reineke was held at the 2017 Spring ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.