The chemist who commemorates lab discoveries on his body
By 
Rebecca Trager2025-11-05T15:28:00
University of Nebraska’s drug design centre director is communicating his team’s scientific breakthroughs with tattoos and now has 29 on his arm
Medicinal chemist Corey Hopkins, founding director of the Center for Drug Design and Innovation at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, is using his body as a canvas to display some of the most interesting products of his research lab.
It all started about three years ago when he, his wife and two adult daughters decided to get matching family tattoos depicting a four-leaf clover with each of the leaves containing one of their first initials. ‘My wife has looked into our ancestries, and there is a lot of Irish in both of our backgrounds,’ he explains.