John A. Porco, Jr. Receives 2009 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
John Porco, Professor and Director of the CMLD-BU, has received a 2009 Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. He joins Professor Jim Panek, a 2002 awardee, as our department’s second recipient of this prestigious award. The Cope Scholar Award is given to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry, and consists of $5,000, a certificate, and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant. The names of the winners for 2009 were announced by the American Chemical Society. Each of the 10 Cope scholars is invited to address the Arthur C. Cope Symposium, to be held next August at the society’s national meeting in Washington, D.C.
John’s scientific interests lie in the development of synthetic methodologies for efficient chemical synthesis of complex molecules and in the use of parallel synthesis techniques to synthesize complex chemical libraries. The creativity of his approach is exhibited in the design and execution of experiments that address important problems in contemporary synthetic chemistry. John’s work has been widely supported by awards from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the American Cancer Society, and peer-reviewed grant proposals from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which validate his contributions to the field.
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