Peter Schultz recognized for his outstanding contributions to bioorganic and medicinal chemistry
Credit: Scripps Institue
Amsterdam, July 24, 2019 – Elsevier, a global information analytics business specializing in science and health, and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series, are pleased to announce that the 2019 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Peter Schultz, President and CEO of the Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. Prof. Schultz receives this year’s award for his advances in fields of chemical biology and drug discovery.
Credited with the development and application of methods to expand the genetic code of living organisms, the discovery of catalytic antibodies, Prof. Schultz also expanded the application of molecular diversity technologies to address problems in chemistry, biology and medicine.
“I feel really quite honored to be a recipient of the Tetrahedron Prize,” said Professor Schultz said when receiving the news. “I’m enormously grateful to all of my ex-graduate students, postdocs and collaborators who are responsible for the science that this award recognizes.”
Awarded annually the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry was established in 1980 to honor the memory of the journal’s founding by the co-Chairmen of the Tetrahedron publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor Robert Burns Woodward.
The award consists of a gold medal, a certificate and a monetary award of USD $15,000. The prize will be presented during the American Chemical Society’s 2020 Fall National Meeting in San Francisco, California, between August 16-20, 2020.
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