Professional News Update 9/5/2006
Orlando Acevedo (Yale, Postdoc) has recently begun working as an Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Auburn University.
James M. Briggs (Purdue, Ph.D.) has been selected as the Leader of the Division of Biochemistry for the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, Houston TX. He is also the Director of the Chemical Biology Interdisciplinary Program for the Departments of Chemistry and Biology and Biochemistry. Additionally, Professor Briggs holds the offices of Co-founder, Vice President, and Chief Financial Officer for VisiGen Biotechnologies, Inc., Houston, TX.
Mark G. Bures (Purdue, Ph.D.) currently works as a Principal Research Scientist in Computational Chemistry at Lilly Research Labs and is now also a “six sigma black belt.” In this new role, Dr. Bures leads company-wide projects aimed at increasing productivity and at reducing the time and cost of drug discovery and development.
Heather A. Carlson (Yale, Ph.D.) has recently received tenure as an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professor Carlson has also been awarded the 2006 Wiley-International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award and a 2006 NSF CAREER Award.
Michael E. Cournoyer (Purdue, Ph.D.) received the 2006 Department of Energy P2 (Pollution Prevention) Award for his work on “Statistical Analysis of Glovebox Glove Failures” at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Patrick S. Lee (Yale, Postdoc) is currently working as a Scientist I in Computational Chemistry for SGX Pharmaceuticals, a public biotech company based in San Diego, CA. The company has just recently gone public and has signed a deal with Novartis for work on AbI inhibitors.
Ivan Tubert-Brohman (Yale, Ph.D.) has begun a postdoctoral position with Professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik at Harvard University.
Frank van Veggel (Visiting Professor) was promoted to Full Professor in Chemistry at the University of Victoria Department of Chemistry, Victoria, British Columbia, in July 2005.
