{"id":724,"date":"2019-07-30T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=724"},"modified":"2019-09-26T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T18:26:47","slug":"john-porco","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/profile\/john-porco\/","title":{"rendered":"John Porco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Porco and the Porco Lab<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">use the principles of organic chemistry to develop new methodologies for synthesizing bioactive complex molecules.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"singlespace\">\n<li><b>Accessing complex bioactive molecules<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a critical step in drug discovery and biomedical research, via methodologies including photocycloaddition, rhodium-catalyzed dehydrogenation and atropselective total synthesis.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Biomimetic synthesis approaches<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">involving method development for testing biosyntheses of natural products and derivatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Translational science and collaboration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, particularly with biological investigators, offers a unique opportunity to identify bioactive molecules which can then be synthesized within the lab.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Quick Links<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Porco Group Home Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.porcogroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Porco Group<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Google Scholar Page\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=f4h2BLkAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Publications<\/a><a title=\"Google Scholar Page\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=f4h2BLkAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13775,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/724\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmerc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}