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George A. Abbott Lectureship

The Abbott Lectureship is designed to bring outstanding chemists to our department and to the area, to provide an opportunity for personal interaction with area students, practicing chemists, and faculty.

We have been fortunate to have some of the most outstanding chemists in the country present these endowed lectures, including Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.

The George A. Abbott Lectureship was established by gifts from the University of North Dakota Alumni.

2023 Abbott Chemistry Lectures

Live webinar featuring Phil S. Baran, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute.

Schedule

Lecture Date/Time Location

Simplifying Synthesis

March 9, 2023, 7 pm

Attend the Thursday Webinar Online

Or join us in Abbott Hall 101 to watch the webinar together.

Electrifying Synthesis

March 10, 2023, 12:20 pm

Join us in Abbott Hall 138 to watch the webinar together.

phil baran

 Dr. Phil S. Baran

About Dr. Phil S. Baran

Phil Baran was born in 1977 in Denville, New Jersey. He received his B.S. in chemistry from NYU in 1997, his Ph.D. from The Scripps Research Institute in 2001, and from 2001-2003 he was an NIH-postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. His independent career began at Scripps in the summer of 2003. Dr. Baran has published over 250 scientific articles, several patents, and has been the recipient of several ACS awards such as the Corey (2015), Pure Chemistry (2010), Fresenius (2006), and Nobel Laureate Signature (2003), and several international distinctions such as the Hirata Gold Medal and Mukaiyama Prize (Japan), the RSC award in Synthesis (UK), the Sackler Prize (Israel), and the Janssen Prize (Belgium). In 2013 he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, in 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 2016 he was awarded the Blavatnik National Award, and in 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, USA.  He has delivered hundreds of lectures around the world and consults for numerous companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead. He currently serves as a scientific advisory board member for Eisai, Alkermes, Nutcracker, Quanta and AsymChem. From 2016-2020 he served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society. He co-founded Sirenas Marine Discovery (2012), Vividion Therapeutics (2016), Elsie Biotechnologies (2021), and Elima Therapeutics (2022). In 2013 he co-authored The Portable Chemist’s Consultant, an interactive book published on the iBooks store along with his graduate class in Heterocyclic Chemistry (viewable on YouTube). The Baran laboratory is committed to identifying areas of chemical synthesis that can have a dramatic impact on the rate of drug discovery and development. This is achieved both through the development of practical total syntheses of complex natural products (such as terpenes, alkaloids, peptides, and oligonucleotides) and by inventing reactions which can dramatically simplify retrosynthesis.

Previous Abbott Lectures

Year Lecturer and Institution Lecture Information
2022 Dr. Angela K. Wilson, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University and 2022 President of the American Chemical Society 2022 Info
2021 Dr. X. Chris Le, University of Alberta 2021 Info
2019

Dr. Christopher Cummins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2019 Info

2018

Dr. Thomas R. Hoye, University of Minnesota

2018 Info

2017

Dr. Jonathan V. Sweedler, University of Illinois, Urbana

2017 Info

2016

Dr. David Yarkony, John Hopkins University

2016 Info

2015

Dr. Donald J. Darensbourg, Texas A&M University

2015 Info

2014

Dr. Bruce Lipshutz, University of California, Santa Barbara

2014 Info

2013

Dr. Debra R. Rolison, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

2013 Info

2012

Dr. Michael Ward, Molecular Design Institute, New York University

2012 Info

2011

Dr. Thomas J. Meyer. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2011 Info

2010

Dr. Michael P. Doyle, University of Maryland

2010 Info

2009

Dr. Richard N. Zare, Stanford University

2009 Info

2008

Dr. Richard J. Saykally, University of California, Berkeley

2008 Info

2007

Dr. Catherine Fensealu, University of Maryland

2007 Info

2006

Dr. Malcolm Chisholm, Ohio State University

2006 Info

2005

Dr. Barry K. Carpenter, Cornell University

2005 Info

2004

Dr. William H. Miller. University of California, Berkeley

2004 Info

2003

Dr. Victor J. Hruby, University of Arizona
UND Alumni (B.S. & M.S.)

2003 Info

2002

Dr. Samuel H. Gellman, University of Wisconsin - Madison

2002 Info

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