Title:
Professor of the Graduate School; Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
Department:
Chemistry
Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB)
Bio/CV:
- Born 1951
- A.B., S.U.N.Y. College at Fredonia (1973)
- Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco (1978)
- NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, M.I.T. (1978-80)
- Assistant/Associate Professor, M.I.T. (1980-87)
- Associate Professor, Univ. of Michigan (1987-91)
- John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Univ. of Michigan (1991-01)
- Professor, Univ. of Michigan (1991-01)
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997-01)
- Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, U.C. Berkeley (2001-11)
- President Elect, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA (2011-12)
- President and CEO, The Scripps Research Institute (2012-14)
- Cecil H. & Ida M. Green Chair in Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute (2011-15)
- Professor of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, U.C. Berkeley (2015-present)
- George H. Hitchings Award, Innovative Methods in Drug Discovery and Design (1991)
- Faculty recognition Award, The University of Michigan (1992)
- Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, S.U.N.Y. College at Fredonia (1992)
- MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1995)
- S.U.N.Y. Alumni Honor Roll (1996)
- Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award in Biomedical Research (2000)
- State of Michigan Scientist of the Year (2000)
- Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan (2000)
- Member, Institute of Medicine; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member, National Academy of Sciences
- Repligen Award, Division of Biological Chemistry of American Chemical Society (2007)
- Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest (2007)
- Emil Thomas Kaiser Award of the Protein Society (2007)
- Murray Goodman Memorial Prize (2008)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (2009)
- Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2013)
- American Association of State Colleges and Universities AASCU Distinguished
- Alumnus (2014)
- Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry (2015)
- UCSF 150 th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award (2015)
- Elected to the American Philosophical Society
- Honorary Doctor of Science, State University of New York
- Elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering