Lyle Isaacs, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UMD, and co-founder, consultant, and chief scientific advisor for Reversal Therapeutics, invented the company’s technology, called sulfated pillararenes.

This year's awardees were selected from a pool of more than 650 nominations from the CMNS community.

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