Professor Craig Hawker Receives 2021 Kathryn C. Hach Award for

Please join the MRL in congratulating Professor Craig Hawker for this well-deserved recognition: The 2021 Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success, one of the National Awards of the American Chemical Society.

 

The citation for the award is: "In recognition of Dr. Hawker's innovative leadership in creating, developing, and commercializing revolutionary polymer-based therapeutics and personal care products through multiple successful start-up companies.”

 

Many of you know of Olaplex (https://olaplex.com/), but the therapeutics referenced are perhaps less well known: they include Relypsa: https://www.relypsa.com

 

This prestigious award is named for the chemist and entrepreneur Kathryn Hach-Darrow:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Hach-Darrow

 

Congratulations Craig!