Peter Dervan

Infobox Scientist


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name=Peter B. Dervan
birth_date=Birth date and age|1945|6|28|mf=y
birth_place=Boston
nationality=USA
field=Chemistry
alma_mater=Boston College
Yale
Boston College High School
work_institution=Yale
Stanford
Caltech
doctoral_supervisor=J.A. Berson
doctoral_students=Peter Schultz, Eric Kool, Laura Kiessling, Yitzhak Tor, Milan Mrksich, Anna Mapp
societies=American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
prizes=Harrison Howe Award (1988)Arthur C. Cope Award (1993)
ACS Gibbs Medal (1993)Nichols Medal (1994)Maison de la Chimie Foundation Prize (1996)the Remsen Award (1998)Kirkwood Medal (1998)the Alfred Bader Award (1999)the Max Tishler Prize (1999)the Linus Pauling Award (1999)the Richard C. Tolman Medal (1999)the Tetrahedron Prize (2000)the Harvey Prize (Israel) (2002)the Ronald Breslow Award (2005)the Wilbur Cross Medal (2005)
National Medal of Science (2006)

Peter B. Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA, a field in which he is an internationally recognized authority. He is married to fellow Caltech chemist Jacqueline Barton.

Education

Dervan received his B.S. from Boston College in 1967. He went on to graduate study at Yale University in the laboratory of Jerome Berson. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972, and performed post-doctoral research at Stanford through 1973, as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow.

Career

From Stanford, Dervan became an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Caltech. He received tenure in 1979 and is currently the Bren Professor of Chemistry. He is a founding member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Gilead Sciences. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Beckman Coulter. He serves on the editorial advisory board for the journals Bioorganic Chemistry, Bioconjugate Chemistry, Tetrahedron (journal), Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and ACS Chemical Biology. He was recently elected as an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation.

elected publications

* cite journal
title=Suppression of androgen receptor-mediated gene expression by a sequence-specific DNA-binding polyamide
first=N.G.
last=Nickols
coauthors=P.B. Dervan
journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
volume=104
pages=10418–10423
year=2007
doi=10.1073/pnas.0704217104

* cite journal
title=Regulation of Gene Expression by Synthetic DNA-Binding Ligands
first=P.B.
last=Dervan
coauthors=A.T. Poulin-Kerstien and E.J. Fechter and B.S. Edelson
journal=Top. Curr. Chem.
volume=235
pages=1–31
year=2005

External links

* [http://dervan.caltech.edu/dervan.html Personal Biography]
* [http://www.gilead.com/sab_dervan Gilead Sciences Biography]

Persondata
NAME= Dervan, Peter B.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH=June 28 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH=Boston
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