Primary Job Title Chairman and CTO, and Founder Primary Organization MiTeGen
Location Ithaca, New York, United States Regions East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Thorne was named a Presidential Young Investigator, 1988-1993, and Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1988-1990. For his work in introductory course instruction to premedical/life science students, he received a Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award in 2006 and the Class of ’72 Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2007, and for his broader contributions to
undergraduate education, he was named a Weiss Presidential Fellow in 2011.
Thorne holds and/or has pending 10 patents related to biomolecular crystal growth and crystallography and cryopreservation.
In 2004, Thorne founded MiTeGen, LLC to commercialize MicroMounts™, based on research and development at Cornell.
Thorne received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manitoba and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
