Jessica Winter named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
In recognition of her significant contributions to publishing in the chemical sciences, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Professor Jessica Winter has been invited to become a Fellow of the internationally-renowned Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
An influential champion for the chemical sciences, the RSC is the world’s leading chemistry community and an influential champion for the chemical sciences. Its mission is to advance excellence and promote the development, practice and application of the chemical sciences across the world in a broad range of disciplines. It was founded in 1841 and now has over 50,000 members.
Winter, an established leader in nanobiotechnology, has served as an associate editor of RSC's Journal of Materials Chemistry B for several years.
Winter's primary research interest is the exploration of the relationship between nanoparticles and biological elements. In August 2020, she was honored with the prestigious Jacobus van 't Hoff Lectureship at the University of Delft, Netherlands, where she gave a talk entitled "Encapsulating Hydrophobic Cargoes in Micelles via Scalable Nanomanufacturing Approaches."
Her experience with scalable nanomanufacturing has grown as a result of her Quantum Dot imaging innovation, a high-caliber magnetic fluorescent nanoparticle which shines in different colors to tag molecules in biomedical tests such as cancer detection. After finding evidence that the refined particle could help researchers to significantly reduce costs, better identify and understand disease progression, and improve patient outcomes, she founded a start-up company, Core Quantum Technologies, LLC. The company is working towards providing the substantially-improved quantum dot and magnetic dot products to the biotechnology research market.
This year, the RSC elected over 60 outstanding scientists from all over the globe as Fellows and Foreign Members, including 52 Fellows, 10 Foreign Members and one Honorary Fellow who were all selected for their exceptional contributions to science. These new Fellows and Foreign Members join the ranks of Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Lise Meitner, Stephen Hawking and William Hume-Rothery.
