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SUMMARY:Studies in Natural Product Synthesis - Professor Phil Baran\, Scri
 pps Research
DTSTART:20200526T140000Z
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CONTACT:Bram Lim
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:*\nThere can be no more noble undertaking than the i
 nvention of medicines. Chemists that make up the engine of drug discovery 
 are facing incredible pressure to do more with less in a highly restrictiv
 e and regulated process that is destined for failure more than 95% of the 
 time. How can academic chemists working on the synthesis of natural produc
 ts help these heroes of drug discovery – those in the pharmaceutical ind
 ustry? With selected examples from our lab\, this talk will focus on that 
 question highlighting interesting findings in fundamental chemistry and ne
 w approaches to scalable chemical synthesis.\n\n*Speaker profile:*\nProfes
 sor Phil Baran is a Professor of Chemistry at Scripps Research\, Californi
 a. He graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Science with H
 onours in Chemistry. Prof Baran did his PhD under Professor K.C. Nicolaou 
 in The Scripps Research Institute\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship 
 under Professor E.J. Corey at Harvard University. He was elected a fellow 
 of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 and became a member of The Natio
 nal Academy of Sciences in 2017. Prof Baran has also received numerous oth
 er awards including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2013\, the Blavatnik Natio
 nal Laureate in Chemistry Award in 2016 and the Inhoffen Medal in 2019. Pr
 of Baran’s current research focuses on developing innovative synthetic s
 trategies to achieve the total synthesis of structurally complex natural p
 roducts while maximising atom economy.
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