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Fluorous Technologies Scientific Advisory Board

Professor Dennis P. Curran

Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board

Dennis P. Curran received his B.S. in 1975 from Boston College. His Ph.D. was granted from the University of Rochester in 1979 where he worked under Professor Andrew S. Kende. After a two year postdoctoral stay with Professor Barry M. Trost at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Curran joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. He now holds the ranks of Distinguished Service Professor and Bayer Professor of Chemistry. Among other awards, Dr. Curran has received the Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, University of Pittsburgh (2009), American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry (2008), the University of Pittsburgh Innovator Award (2007), the Harry and Carol Mosher Award, Santa Clara Valley Section, ACS (2007), the Blaise Pascal International Research Chair, Préfecture de la Région D'Ile-de-France Paris (2007-2008), the Pittsburgh Award, Pittsburgh Section, American Chemical Society (2006), the Morley Medal, Cleveland Section, American Chemical Society (2006), the Pittsburgh Magazine Innovators Award (2003), American Chemical Society Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (2000), the Cope Scholar Award (1988), and the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (1998). He is currently an ISI "Highly Cited Researcher" (www.isihighlycited.com). Dr. Curran has authored over 380 papers, thirty patents and two books, and is well known for his work in at the interface of radical chemistry and organic synthesis. More recently he has made significant contributions to the emerging discipline of fluorous chemistry.

Dr. Alfred Bader

Founder and Former President and CEO of Aldrich and Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Companies

Alfred Bader obtained his B.Sc. in 1945 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and moved then to Harvard, where he worked under Louis Fieser. He gained his PhD in 1950, and joined the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company as a research chemist.

About the same time, problems with the supply of organic research chemicals led Bader to start up the Aldrich Chemical Company, where he served from 1955 to 1991 as President and CEO of Aldrich and Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Companies. Throughout his scientific and business career, Bader gained many honors, among them 9 honorary doctorates. In 1998, Dr Bader received the American Chemical Society Award: "One of the Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise in the Last 75 Years".

Professor Peter Wipf

Director of the Combinatorial Chemistry Center, University of Pittsburgh

Peter Wipf was born in Aarau, Switzerland. He received his Chemistry Diploma in 1984 and his PhD in 1987 from the University of Zürich under the direction of Heinz Heimgartner and then joined Robert E. Ireland at the University of Virginia as a Swiss NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. In 1990, he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and Professor in 1997. Peter Wipf's research interests are focused on the total synthesis of natural products, heterocyclic and organometallic chemistry. He has founded, and serves as the first Director of the Combinatorial Chemistry Center at the University of Pittsburgh that is involved in many collaborative projects in chemical biology.