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Tetrahedron Chair
Phil Baran was born in 1977 in Denville, New Jersey. He received his B.S. in chemistry from NYU in 1997, his Ph.D. at The Scripps Research Institute in 2001, and from 2001-2003 he was an NIH-postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. His independent career began at Scripps in the summer of 2003. He currently holds the Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry. Phil has published over 180 scientific articles and has been the recipient of several ACS awards such as the Corey (2015), Pure Chemistry (2010), Fresenius (2006), and Nobel Laureate Signature (2003), and several international distinctions such as the Hirata Gold Medal and Mukaiyama Prize (Japan), the RSC award in Synthesis (UK), and the Sackler Prize (Israel). In 2013 he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, in 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2016 he was awarded the Blavatnik National Award, and most recently, in 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, USA. He has delivered hundreds of lectures around the world and consults for numerous companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb (since late 2005), Boehringer-Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, DuPont and TEVA, and is a scientific advisory board member for Eisai, Abide, and AsymChem. In 2016 he was appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He co-founded Sirenas Marine Discovery (2012) and Vividion Therapeutics (2016) and in 2013 he co-authored The Portable Chemist’s Consultant, an interactive book published on the iBooks store along with his graduate class in Heterocyclic Chemistry (viewable for free by anyone on iTunes University). Outside of the lab, Phil enjoys spending time with his wife Ana and three young children (Lucia, Leah, and Manuel).
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L06 - Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis - Organic Reactions Inspired by the Organometallic Chemistry of Gold Confirmed Speakers
Antonio M. Echavarren received his PhD at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, 1982) with Prof. Francisco Fariña. After a postdoctoral stay in Boston College with Prof. T. Ross Kelly, he joined the UAM as an Assistant Professor. Following a two years period as a NATO-fellow with Prof. John K. Stille in Fort Collins (Colorado State University), he joined the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the CSIC in Madrid. In 1992 he returned to the UAM as a Professor of Organic Chemistry and in 2004 he moved to Tarragona as a Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ). He has been Liebig Lecturer (Organic Division, German Chemical Society, 2006), Abbot Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, 2009), Schulich Visiting Professor (Technion, Haifa, 2011), Sir Robert Robinson Distinguished Lecturer (University of Liverpool, 2011), Novartis Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015) and Kurt Alder Lecturer 2017 (University of Cologne). In 2012 he got a European Research Council Advanced Grant and in 2014 he was the president of the 49th EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry (Bürgenstock conference). Prof. Echavarren is a member of the International Advisory Board of Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, and Organic Letters, member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry European Journal, and Associate Editor of Chemical Communications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received the 2004 Janssen-Cylag Award in Organic Chemistry and the 2010 Gold Medal of the Royal Spanish Chemical Society and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the ACS.
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Syuzanna received her Master's degree in Chemistry from Yerevan State University, Armenia, after which she moved to Moscow, Russia, in 1999 to undertake her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Belokon. After spending several months in 2002 as a visiting scientist in Warsaw, Poland, working with Prof. Grela, Syuzanna joined the research group of Prof. Feringa at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2003 as a postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2007 Syuzanna joined the Process&Development department at Janssen Pharmaceutica, Belgium.
Syuzanna started her independent research career in 2010, when she was appointed as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. In 2013 she was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor (adjunct hoogleraar) at the University of Groningen.
Syuzanna’s research activities include synthesis, organometallic reactions, catalysis, enantioselective transformations and autocatalysis. Syuzanna's work has been recognized by a recent major award from the Royal Dutch Chemical Society, the KNCV Gold Medal 2016, the premier prize for researchers in the chemical sciences in the Netherlands, and the prestigious Solvias Ligand Contest in 2011.
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Thomas R. Hoye grew up in New Wilmington, PA. He attended Bucknell University where research experi¬ences in heterocyclic chemistry in the laboratories of Professor Harold W. Heine convinced him to lay aside study of chemical engineering to concentrate on organic chemistry. He completed the B.S./M.S. degrees at Bucknell in 1972 and matriculated to graduate studies in the laboratory of Professor Robert B. Woodward at Harvard University, earning the Ph.D. degree in 1976. That fall he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he has spent his independent career and is now a College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor. His teaching and research interests span synthetic, mechanistic, and structural organic chemistry, including their application to problems in medicinal and polymer chemistry.
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Karl Anker Jørgensen received his PhD from Aarhus University in 1984. He was postdoc with Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University, 1985. In 1985, he became Assistant Professor at Aarhus University and in 1992 he was promoted to Professor. His research interests are the development, understanding and application of asymmetric catalysis.
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David Leigh is one of the pioneers of the field of artificial molecular machinery and molecular nanotechnology. He has introduced influential concepts for the synthesis of interlocked and knotted molecular architectures, pioneered the use of ratchet mechanisms in the invention of synthetic molecular motors, and initiated the field of molecular robotics.
David obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield, UK, in 1987 and, after postdoctoral research at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, David returned to the UK as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1989. After spells at the Universities of Warwick and Edinburgh, in 2012 David returned to Manchester where he is currently the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry and a Royal Society Research Professor.
He has won a number of major international awards including the Izatt-Christensen Award for Macrocyclic Chemistry, EU Descartes Prize and the Feynman Prize for Nanotechnology. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), the UK’s National Academy of Science and Letters, in 2009.
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Guy Lloyd-Jones studied Chemical Technology at Huddersfield, and obtained his doctorate in organic chemistry at Oxford University with John Brown FRS. He conducted postdoctoral research in asymmetric catalysis at Basel University, with Andreas Pfaltz. In 1996 he returned to the UK, to a lectureship at the University of Bristol and began to build a research group specialising in organic / organometallic stereochemistry, in particular applying NMR and isotopic labelling. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2003, held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2008- 2013, and was Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry at Bristol 2012-2013. In 2013 he moved from Bristol to The Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. In the same year was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and and ERC Advanced Investigator. At Edinburgh he and his group continue to build their expertise in the study of reaction mechanism and reactivity relationships in the context of synthetic methodology and catalysis. Intrinsic to this is application and development of physical-organic chemistry methodologies, and associated instrumentation for its analysis.
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Bert Maes is full professor of Organic Chemistry and spokesman of the Organic Synthesis division (ORSY) at UAntwerp. His research interests center on heterocyclic chemistry, organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis with a special focus on sustainable chemistry.
He obtained his PhD at UAntwerp and performed postdoctoral work in the group of professor Anny Jutand (CNRS) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris studying fundamental mechanisms in catalysis. Since 2009 he holds a position as a Research professor (ZAP BOF). Maes is a Series Editor of Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry (Springer). In 2015-2016 he acted as the chair of the Department of Chemistry at UAntwerp.
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Nuno Maulide was born in Lisbon in 1979. After graduating in chemistry from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in 2003, he completed an M.Sc. at the Ecole Polytechnique in 2004 (Summa cum Laude, ranking 1st out of 22 students) and received his Ph.D. from the Universite catholique de Louvain in 2007.He subsequently moved to Stanford University under Barry M. Trost for postdoctoral studies before returning to Europe to take an endowed position as Max-Planck Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung in early 2009, where he also received a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2011). Since October 2013 he is Full Professor and Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna. His research interests span diverse areas within organic chemistry, focusing on unconventional reaction mechanisms and intermediates. He has received among others the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award (2012), the ADUC prize of the German Chemical Society (2012), the inaugural EurJOC Young Researcher Award (2015), the Elisabeth Lutz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2016) and the Prize of the City of Vienna (2017). Furthermore, he is an ERC Starting (2011) and Consolidator (2016) Grantee.
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Eric Meggers studied Chemistry at the University of Bonn (Germany) and received his Ph. D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Basel (Switzerland). After postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA) he started his independent career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Since 2007, Eric Meggers is Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Marburg (Germany). He was holding a secondary appointment as Professor at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Xiamen University (P. R. China) from 2012 to 2016. His research program revolves around exploiting metal-centered stereochemistry for applications in medicine, chemical biology, and catalysis (for the evolution of his research program, see: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 5668-5675). Currently the Meggers laboratory focuses on investigating chiral-only-at-metal transition metal complexes for asymmetric catalysis, especially including the activation by visible light.
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Sarah E. Reisman conducted undergraduate studies at Connecticut College in New London, CT, where she became interested in organic synthesis working in the laboratory of Prof. Timo Ovaska. After receiving her BA in Chemistry in 2001, Sarah enrolled in graduate studies at Yale University and joined the research group of Prof. John Wood. She earned her Ph.D. in chemistry in 2006, conducting research in the area of natural product synthesis. As an NIH post-doctoral fellow, Sarah pursued studies in the field of asymmetric catalysis working with Prof. Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University. In 2008, Sarah joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology where she is now a Professor of Chemistry. Her laboratory seeks to discover, develop, and study new chemical reactions within the context of natural product total synthesis. Prof. Reisman has been recognized with a number of awards for teaching and research, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the Amgen Young Investigator Award, the Novartis Early Career Award, and the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
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Franziska Schoenebeck has been a Full Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University in Germany since the summer of 2016. Professor Schoenebeck was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. From 2001-2004, she studied Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. She undertook her PhD in synthetic organic chemistry in the group of Prof. John A. Murphy in Glasgow, Uk. In 2008 she moved to California to work with Prof. K. N. Houk at UCLA, where she was involved in computational studies of organic reactivity. In 2010, she joined the faculty of the ETH Zürich as an Assistant Professor. In 2013, she was appointed Associate Professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University and promoted to Full Professor in 2016. She is the recipient of the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship (2016-2017), an ERC Starting Grant, the 2014 ‘Dozentenpreis’ of the German Chemical Industry Fund, the 2014 ORCHEM Prize by the German Chemical Society, the 2014 Marcial Moreno Lectureship by the Spanish Royal Chemistry Society, the 2014 JPOC Award for Early Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry and the ADUC Prize 2012. Her research program is based at the interface of synthetic organic, mechanistic and computational chemistry with a strong emphasis in homogeneous metal catalysis.
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Jeffrey I. Seeman (Department of Chemistry, University of Richmond) has over 185 publications and patents, in fields as diverse as natural products chemistry, chemical physics, flavor technology, responsible conduct of research and the history and sociology of chemistry. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has studied at Oxford University with Sir Jack Baldwin and Steve Davies. He was the creator and editor of the series of 20 autobiographies of eminent chemists entitled Profiles, Pathways and Dreams. He also created and manages the Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award program for the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He has served as Chair of Division of History of Chemistry of the ACS, on the Board of Directors of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and on the advisory boards of the Petroleum Research Fund, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Accountability in Research. He also produces videos for educational purposes.
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Motonari Uesugi is a Professor of The Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences and Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. After completing postdoctoral training in Harvard Chemistry Department, Dr. Uesugi started his independent career in Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, where he has established an interdisciplinary laboratory in the area of chemical biology. He was tenured in Baylor in 2005, and moved to Kyoto University as a full professor in 2005. He is a recipient of Gold Medal Award, Tokyo TechnoForum 21 (2006), The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotions (2011) and German Innovation Award Gottfried Wagener Prize (2011). Dr. Uesugi and his co-workers aim to gain a fundamental understanding of biological events through the study of small molecules. He provides the first edX course from Japan, “The Chemistry of Life,” to create a new educational path for millions of learners worldwide.
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Helma Wennemers studied chemistry at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt before moving to Columbia University, New York where she received her PhD degree for studies with W. Clark Still in 1996. Following postdoctoral studies at Nagoya University with Hisashi Yamamoto (1997–1998), she joined the faculty of Basel University as the Bachem-endowed Assistant Professor in 1999. Helma was promoted to Associate Professor (2004) at the University of Basel before moving to ETH Zurich in the fall of 2011 where she is Professor of Organic Chemistry.
Her research focuses on the development of small molecules with functions that are fulfilled in nature by large macromolecules. She utilizes the power of organic synthesis to access functionalities that nature might have not had in the repertoire of building blocks. The focus is both on practical applications and an understanding of the properties on the molecular level. This scope includes the development of bioinspired asymmetric catalysts and functionalizable collagen, and molecular scaffolds for applications in supramolecular and biological chemistry (e.g., cell-penetrating peptides, and tumor targeting) and the controlled formation of metal nanoparticles.
Her research has been recognized by several awards, including Leonidas Zervas Award (2010), Pedler Award (2016) and Inhoffen Medal (2017).
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Shuli You was born in Henan, China, and received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai Univ. (1996). He obtained his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Lixin Dai before doing postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffery Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute. From 2004, he worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation as a PI before returning to SIOC as a Professor in 2006. His research interests mainly focus on asymmetric C-H functionalization and catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) reactions. He is the recipient of AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011) and RSC Merck Award (2015).
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Samir Z. Zard is currently Directeur Classe Exceptionnelle in the CNRS and part-time Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. His training as a chemist started at the American University of Beirut, then at Imperial College, London, and finally at the Université Paris-Sud, France, where he received his doctorate under the supervision of Professor Sir Derek Barton. His main research interests concern the study and development of new reactions and processes, with a special interest in radicals, organosulfur derivatives, alkynes, and nitro compounds. In addition to a number of academic awards, he received in 2007 the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.
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Jieping Zhu received BSc from Hangzhou Normal University and MSc degree from Lanzhou University (P. R. China) under the guidance of Professor Li Yulin. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from University Paris XI, France under the supervision of Professor H.-P. Husson and Pr. J. C. Quirion. After a post-doctoral stay with Professor Sir Derek H. R. Barton at Texas A & M University in USA, he joined the “Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles”, CNRS, France as Chargé de Recherche and was promoted to Director of Research 2nd class in 2000 and then 1st class in 2006. He moved to Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Switzerland in September 2010 as a full professor. His group is involved in the development of novel synthetic methods, their application in natural product synthesis, the design of novel multicomponent reactions and development of catalytic enantioselective transformations.
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