Paul J. Hergenrother

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Paul J. Hergenrother is an American chemist and the Kenneth L. Rinehart Jr. Endowed Chair in Natural Products chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [1] His research focuses on the development of organic small molecules with novel biological properties such as enzyme inhibitors and activators, chemotherapeutics, and antibacterial agents. In 2008 Hergenrother was awarded the Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.

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Education

Hergenrother attended college at University of Notre Dame. In 1999, Hergenrother earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Texas where he worked in the lab of Professor Stephen F. Martin.

Career and research

From 1999 to 2001, Hergenrother completed an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in the lab of Professor Stuart Schreiber. [2] In 2001, Hergenrother became a faculty member in the department of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Notable papers

Web of Science lists 215 publications authored by Hergenrother in peer-reviewed scientific journals that have been cited over 8000 times. [3] His three most cited research articles have been cited >200 times each. [4] [5]

Awards and honors [1]

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References

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  2. Kuruvilla, Finny G.; Shamji, Alykhan F.; Sternson, Scott M.; Hergenrother, Paul J.; Schreiber, Stuart L. (2002). "Dissecting glucose signalling with diversity-oriented synthesis and small-molecule microarrays". Nature. 416 (6881): 653–657. Bibcode:2002Natur.416..653K. doi:10.1038/416653a. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   11948353. S2CID   4424969.
  3. "Web of Science" . Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  4. Richter, Michelle F.; Drown, Bryon S.; Riley, Andrew P.; Garcia, Alfredo; Shirai, Tomohiro; Svec, Riley L.; Hergenrother, Paul J. (2017-05-18). "Predictive compound accumulation rules yield a broad-spectrum antibiotic". Nature. 545 (7654): 299–304. Bibcode:2017Natur.545..299R. doi:10.1038/nature22308. ISSN   0028-0836. PMC   5737020 . PMID   28489819.
  5. Huigens III, Robert W.; Morrison, Karen C.; Hicklin, Robert W.; Flood Jr, Timothy A.; Richter, Michelle F.; Hergenrother, Paul J. (2013). "A ring-distortion strategy to construct stereochemically complex and structurally diverse compounds from natural products". Nature Chemistry. 5 (3): 195–202. Bibcode:2013NatCh...5..195H. doi:10.1038/nchem.1549. ISSN   1755-4330. PMC   3965367 . PMID   23422561.
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