The 2003
Bristol-Myers Squibb
2003
Unrestricted Grants in Synthetic Organic Chemistry have been awarded to
Professor John A. Porco, Jr. Boston University
Professor Justin Du Bois Stanford University
John A. Porco, Jr., received a B.A. degree in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross in 1985 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1992 under the guidance of Professor Stuart Schreiber. Following postdoctoral studies with Professor Chi-Huey Wong at Scripps, he joined Avalon Ventures in 1993 and Argonaut Technologies in 1995 where he became Director of Parallel Medicinal Chemistry in 1997. He joined Boston University's Department of Chemistry in 1999 where his research program focuses on the chemical synthesis of complex molecules and the application of parallel synthesis techniques to prepare complex chemical libraries. In 2002, Professor Porco became Director of the Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development (CMLD-BU), an NIH-funded center that develops new methodologies for producing novel chemical libraries using stereochemistry and functional group position as diversity elements.
Justin Du Bois received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley where he performed undergraduate research with Professor Ken Raymond. In 1992, he began his graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology under the direction of Professor Erick Carreira, receiving his Ph.D. in 1997. Following a two-year postdoctoral stay with Professor Stephen Lippard at MIT, he joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Professor Du Bois has established a research program in chemical synthesis and reaction design. His group's current interests involve the development of metal-catalyzed atom-transfer processes and the application of these methods to the construction of complex alkaloid structures.
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