Rachel Dorin, Ph.D. ’13, co-founder and CEO of TeraPore Technologies, has been selected to receive the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s American Innovator Award. She and four other innovators featured in the coalition’s second annual Faces of American Innovation Report will receive the honor at a ceremony later this month in Washington, D.C.
As a Ph.D. candidate, Dorin was working in the lab of Uli Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, when she co-invented a versatile method of producing tunable polymer membranes. After Dorin graduated, she founded TeraPore to develop her discovery into a platform for producing nanofilters that can remove impurities from medicines, making them safer for patients.
Today, TeraPore’s filtration products have already been used by the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The company is exploring additional applications in semiconductor manufacturing.
