Jonathan A. Ellman

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Jonathan Anthony Ellman (born 1962 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American biochemist and pharmacologist . He teaches and researches at Yale University and is primarily concerned with the synthesis of organic compounds, in particular using CH activation and asymmetric synthesis .

Career

Jonathan A. Ellman acquired in 1984 the Bachelor in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before the Harvard University changed and there in 1989 under David Evans for Ph.D. received his doctorate . His dissertation was entitled The asymmetric synthesis of nonproteinogenic a-amino acids and peptides . He then returned to his native California, where he spent three years as a post-doc at the University of California, Berkeley under Peter G. Schultzworked. In 1992, he was promoted to assistant professor at UC Berkeley, where he was made full professor of chemistry in 1999 , while at the same time taking on the position of Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco . Ellman held both professorships for eleven years before moving to Yale University in 2010 , where he has since been Professor of Pharmacology and Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry .

Scientific work

Ellman is mainly concerned with the synthesis of new organic compounds and their pharmacological properties. Special emphasis is put while the CH activation and the asymmetric synthesis of amines is addition, his research group developed the. Substrates Activity Screening (SAS), a method to enzyme - inhibitors to detect better. So far he has published about 300 scientific articles.

In addition, Ellman was or is involved in the publication of several professional journals as co-editor, including the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry (1998–2008), Organic Syntheses (2003–2011) and Chemical Biology & Drug Design (since 2005).

Honors

Ellman was a Sloan Research Fellow and received the 2003 Scheele Prize from the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society. In 2006 he was elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science , before the Pedler Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry followed in 2010 . In 2015 she was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In the same year he was named by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher in the chemistry category. For 2021, Ellman was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pedler Award 2010 Winner. rsc.org, accessed December 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter E. (PDF; 477 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ellman, Jonathan A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellman, Jonathan; Ellman, Jon; Ellman, Jonathan Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist and pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles