Author: Stephen Hanessian

Stephen Hanessian holds the Isis Pharmaceuticals Research Chair at the University of Montreal and is also on the faculty of the Departments of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology at the University of California, Irvine. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, the latest being the 2012 Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products from the American Chemical Society, the IUPAC-Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry, and the Montreal In Vivo Prize for innovation. Professor Hanessian has over 500 journal publications to his name, which span a wide cross-section of areas related to organic, bioorganic, and medicinal chemistry. His latest book “Design and Strategy in Organic Synthesis – From the Chiron Approach to Catalysis” (Wiley-VCH) has received wide acclaim.