Tetrahedron Symposium Speaker Biography

Paul J. Reider, Ph.D.

Paul J. Reider joined Amgen as head of Chemistry in April, 2002 after spending 22 years in the Merck Research Laboratories.  He received his A.B. (Psychology) at New York University's Washington Square College and his Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) at the University of Vermont.  After post-doctoral research as an NIH National Research Service Awardee at Colorado State University, Paul joined Merck as a Senior Research Chemist in Process Chemistry.  Prior to joining Amgen, he was Vice President of Process Chemistry at Merck.  Paul is an inventor on many patents, an author of more than 170 scientific papers, and the winner of numerous awards.  He served on the visiting committees for Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Organic Chemistry, and Organic Letters.  He is also a Senior Editor of  Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development, and Science of Synthesis.