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Dale L. Boger


Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry 
Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology


boger@scripps.edu



  • B.S. University of Kansas, 1975
  • Ph.D. Harvard University, 1980
  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, 1979-85
  • Associate Professor/Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, 1985-91
  • Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, 1991-present
  • Chairman, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 2012-2018
  • Member, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, 1996-present
  • NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, 1975-78
  • Searle Scholar Award, 1981-84
  • NIH Research Career Development Award, 1983-88
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1985-89
  • ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1988
  • American Cyanamid Academic Award, 1988
  • Japan Promotion of Science Fellow, 1993
  • ISHC Katritzky Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1997
  • Honorary Member, The Lund Chemical Society (Sweden), 1998
  • ACS Aldrich Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 1999
  • A. R. Day Award, POCC 1999 and 2009
  • Honorary Ph.D. Degree: Laurea Honors Causa, Univ. of Ferrara, 2000
  • Smissman Lecturer, Univ. of Kansas, 2000
  • Yamanouchi USA Faculty Award, 2000
  • Paul Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, 2002
  • Ross Lecturer, Dartmouth College, 2002
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
  • Adrien Albert Medal, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
  • Alder Lecturer, University of Koeln, 2005
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006
  • ACS Guenther Award in Natural Products, 2007
  • Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2008
  • Fellow, American Chemical Society, 2010
  • Tishler Lecturer, Harvard University, 2011
  • ACS Portoghese Lecturer, 2011
  • ACS Hirshmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, 2013
  • Marvel Lecturer, University of Illinois, 2013
  • Beckman Lecturer, Caltech, 2014
  • AACR Award in Chemistry in Cancer, 2014
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • HHS Wall of Honor, 2015
  • Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2016
  • RSC Robert Robinson Award, 2017
  • Wang Lectures, Taiwan, 2018
  • NIH Merit Award, 2018-2026
  • ISHC E.C. Taylor Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2019
  • Kitasato Microbial Chem. Medal and Tishler-Omura Lecturer, 2019
  • Tetrahedron Prize, 2020
  • Editor-in-Chief, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 1990-2015. Founding Editor.
  • Executive Editorial Board Member, Tetrahedron Publications, 1990-2015
  • ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division
    Long Range Planning Committee, 1981-1983
    Awards Committee, 1984-1986 
    Councilor, 1996-1999
  • Founder
    Combichem (1994)
    Sequoia Sciences (2000)
    Abide (2011)
    Tollbridge (2015)
    Cairn (2016)