Professional Experience

2012 - present, Acting Director, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2012, Associate Director, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2011, Co-Director, Drug Discovery and Structural Biology (DDSB) Core, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA 

2009 - present, Co-leader, Developmental Cancer Therapeutics Program, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA

2008 - present, Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2007 - 2008, Associate Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2006 - present, Director, Synthetic and Biopolymer Chemistry Core Facility, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2006, Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2004, Professor of Chemistry, Oregon State University, OR

1998, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Oregon State University, OR

1997, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York City, NY

1993, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Columbia University, New York City, NY 

1992, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York City, NY

1989, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Education and Training

1988, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D., Chemistry

1984, University of California, Los Angeles, M.S., Chemistry

1983, University of California, Los Angeles, B.S., Chemistry

Professional Memberships

2007, Ad hoc Member, National Institutes of Health K99-Roo Pathway to Independence Study Section

2006, Ad hoc Member, National Institutes of Health SBCA Study Section

2001 - 2006, Permanent Member, National Institutes of Health MCHA/SBCA Study Section

2000, Ad hoc Member, National Institutes of Health MCHA Study Section

1998, Ad hoc Member, National Institutes of Health MCHA Study Section

1997, Ad hoc Member, National Institutes of Health MCHA Study Section

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2011, Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

2004, Olaf Boedtker Faculty Inspiration Award, College of Science, Oregon State University

2002, Harris Teaching Award, Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University

2001, Lloyd Carter Teaching Award, College of Science, Oregon State University

1996, Great Teacher Award, Honorable Mention, Columbia University

1995, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award

1993, Becton-Dickson Fellow

1992, Beckman Young Investigator Award

1989, National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow