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Markita Landry & Alanna Schepartz receive CZ Biohub Investigator awards Professors Markita Landry (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and Alanna Schepartz (Chemistry) have been named 2022 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators. The Investigator Program, open to faculty members at Stanford University, UC San Francisco, and UC Berkeley, awards $1 million in unrestricted funds over five years to each Investigator, with the goal of building engaged, collaborative communities of Bay Area scientists to undertake creative and innovative research that will help solve the biggest challenges in biomedicine.
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C. Judson King – honored with named endowed professorship The American University of Armenia has created an Endowed Named Professorship in honor of professor emeritus of chemical and biomolecular engineering, C. Judson King. King served as Chairman of the AUAC Board of Trustees for 14 years as part of his role as UC Berkeley’s provost. He served on the board for 27 years in total until 2021. Appointment to an Endowed Named Professorship is the highest academic honor at AUA, which grants appointees the opportunity to make significant contributions to their respective research fields and reach their academic aspirations.
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Richmond Sarpong receives 2022 ACS Award for creative work in synthetic organic chemistry Professor of Chemistry Richmond Sarpong was acknowledged during the ACS annual meeting in March for the development of new strategies for the chemical synthesis of complex molecules based on C-H and C-C bond functionalization. He has made seminal contributions to developing new strategies and methods for the assembly of complex natural products and established a world-recognized research program characterized by the selection of targets which demonstrate a deep appreciation of the most important problems at the forefront of the field of total synthesis.
