Colby Shad Thaxton

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine promotes translational bionanotechology research that has the potential to revolutionize regenerative medicine and produce targeted therapeutics. It performs research in fields that can have profound impacts on regenerative medicine and targeted therapeutics, such as self-assembly, tissue engineering, genomics, smart drug delivery, and developing new bionanotechnologies. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

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.