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Brief Biography of Peter B. Dervan Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) received his early education in Boston, Massachusetts (BS, Boston College, 1967). He began research in physical organic chemistry working with Jerome A. Berson at Yale University where he received the Wolfgang Prize for distinguished graduate studies. After earning his Ph.D. degree in 1972, he spent a year at Stanford University as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (1973). From Stanford he went to Pasadena to take up a faculty appointment at the California Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor, 1973-79; Associate Professor, 1979-82; Professor, 1982-88) where he is now the Bren Professor of Chemistry. Dervan has pioneered the techniques necessary to analyze the sequence specificities of natural and synthetic DNA binding molecules. Using the tools of synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry in combination with nucleic acid techniques, Dervan is defining the chemical principles underlying the sequence specific recognition and cleavage of double helical DNA. Dervan has been a Visiting Professor at the ETH, Zurich (1983), the T.Y. Shen Visiting Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at MIT (1987); the Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (1988) and the Alexander Todd Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, England (1989). He is sought after for plenary and special lectureships and in recent years these included: McElvain Lecture at Wisconsin; Hanes Willis Lectures at North Carolina; Abbot Lectures at Yale; R.C. Fuson Lectures at Nevada-Reno; Camille & Henry Dreyfus Lectures at Dartmouth; first H. Smith Broadbent Lecture at Brigham Young; Syntex-Distinguished Lecture at Colorado State; Rosetta Briegel Barton Lecture at Oklahoma; Dains Lecture at Kansas; DeWitt Stetton Jr. Lecture at NIH; Perlman Lecture at Wisconsin; Falk-Plaut Lectures at Columbia; Pfizer Lecture at Einstein; Abbot Lectures at North Dakota; Priestly Lecture at Penn State; Clifford B. Purves Lectures at McGill; University Lecture at Boston College; Walker Ames Lectures at Washington; Arthur Ingersoll Lecture at Vanderbilt; John Albert Southern Lecture at Furman; Max Hoffer Memorial Lecture at Roche; H.C. Brown Lectures at Purdue; Frank and Jean Chelsey Lectures at Carlton; Calvin Lectures at UC Berkeley; Warner-Lambert Lectures at Michigan State; Kolthoff Lectures at Minnesota; and R.B. Baker Memorial Letters at UC Santa Barbara. His honors include: Alfred E. Sloan Research Fellow (1977); Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (1978); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow (1983); ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (1985); Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1986); election to the National Academy of Sciences (1986); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988); Bren Professor of Chemistry (1988); Harrison Howe Award (1988); Arthur C. Cope Award (1993).
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