Tetrahedron Symposium Speaker Biography

Peter G. Schultz

Peter G. Schultz graduated (summa cum laude) from Caltech in 1979 and continued there for his doctoral degree (in 1984) with Professor Peter Dervan.  He then spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Professor Christopher Walsh before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  He is currently the Scripps Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation.  Schultz has received numerous awards including the Alan T. Waterman Award, NSF (1988), the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1990), the U.C. Berkeley College of Chemistry Teaching Award (1992), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1994), the Paul Erhlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Award (2002), and the Arthur C. Cope Award (2006).  Professor Schultz is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (1993) and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (1998).  He is active on many editorial and scientific advisory boards and is a founder of Affymax Research Institute, Symyx Technologies, Syrrx, Kalypsys, Phenomix, Ilypsa, Wildcat and Ambrx.