Redesigned Vancomycin

Dale Boger

Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute

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BIO

Dale Boger received his B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Kansas (1975, with highest distinction and honors in chemistry) and Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University (1980) under the direction of E. J. Corey and supported by an NSF fellowship. He returned to the University of Kansas as a member of the faculty in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry (19791985), moved to the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University (19851991), and joined the faculty in the newly created Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute (1991present) as the Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry. From 2012-2018, he served as the Chairman for the Department of Chemistry. Professor Boger is internationally recognized for his work in organic synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, natural products total synthesis and their biological characterization, synthetic methodology development, and chemical biology, and has made seminal contributions to discovering new therapeutic targets (eg. FAAH, serine hydrolases), improving the glycopeptide antibiotics, and the understanding of DNA-drug interactions of naturally occurring antitumor-antibiotics.