Daniel Harki Awarded Northrop Professorship

Minneapolis, Minn.

Feb. 19, 2020

Daniel Harki, PhD, has been awarded the Northrop Professorship at the University of Minnesota. According to the University provost’s letter of appointment states this professorship “was created to recognize field-shaping faculty who have made significant advances in their careers and whose national and international work has helped define the trajectory of one or more academic fields. It recognizes those whose accomplishments have brought renown and prestige to the University of Minnesota and who thus add luster to the University by their presence.”

Dr. Harki is an associate professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. His research laboratory focuses on the discovery of novel small molecules for applications in cancer research as mechanistic probes and potential therapeutics.