Curriculum Vitae


Peter B. Dervan


Born: June 28, 1945, Boston, Massachusetts
Married: Jacqueline K. Barton; Children: Andrew, Elizabeth

Address:
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 164-30 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125


Education
1967
B.S., Chemistry; Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
1972
Ph.D., Chemistry; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Professional Chronology

Stanford University
1973
National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow

California Institute of Technology
1973
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
1979
Associate Professor of Chemistry
1982
Professor of Chemistry
1988-
Bren Professor of Chemistry
1994-99
Chairman, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Awards
1972
Wolfgang Prize for Distinguished Graduate Studies, Yale University
1977
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1978
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
1983
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
1985
ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
1986
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
1986
Member, National Academy of Sciences
1988
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1988
Harrison Howe Award
1993
Arthur C. Cope Award
1993
Willard Gibbs Medal
1994
Nichols Medal
1996
Maison de la Chimie Foundation Prize
1997
Member, Institute of Medicine, NAS
1998
Remsen Award
1998
Kirkwood Medal
1999
Alfred Bader Award
1999
Max Tishler Prize
1999
Linus Pauling Medal
1999
Richard C. Tolman Medal
2000
Foreign Member, French Academy of Sciences
2000
Tetrahedron Prize
2002
Member, American Philosophical Society
2002
Harvey Prize (Israel)
2004
Member, German Academy of Sciences
2005
Ronald Breslow Award
2005
Wilbur Cross Medal (Yale)
2006
National Medal of Science

Visiting Professorships
1983
Visiting Professor, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich
1987
T. Y. Shen Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988
Morris S. Kharasch Visiting Professor, University of Chicago
1989
Alexander Todd Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, England
1990
Walker-Ames Visiting Professor, University of Washington
1993
Rolf Sammet Visiting Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
1994
Smets Visiting Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain and Katholiek Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium
1998
Wellcome Visiting Professor in the Basic Medical Sciences, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Honorary Degrees
1997
Dr. Sci., Boston College

Editorial Advisory Boards
1981-85
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
1983-
Bioorganic Chemistry
1984-89
Chemical Reviews
1986-88
Nucleic Acids Research
1986-92
Journal of the American Chemical Society
1987-89
Accounts of Chemical Research
1988-89
Catalysis Letters
1989-
Bioconjugate Chemistry
1991-93
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
1992-
Tetrahedron
1993-
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
1997-
Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development
1999-
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2006-
ACS Chemical Biology

Committees/National Service
1982
Member, Organizing Committee, Nineteenth Reaction Mechanisms Conference
1984-85
Co-organizer, NSF Workshop on Reactive Intermediates
1985
Member, Advisory Panel for Chemistry of Life Sciences, NSF
1986-88
Member, Advisory Committee for Chemistry, NSF
1988-89
Chairman, Advisory Committee for Chemistry, NSF
1988-90
Member, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, NRC
1991-94
Chairman, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, NRC
1991-94
Member, Council of the Gordon Research Conferences
1992-94
Member, Advisory Board, Chemical & Engineering News
1994-96
Member, Class I Membership Committee, NAS
1997
Member, Nominating Committee, NAS
2005
Member, Class I Membership Committee, NAS
2005-
Member, NIH SBCA Study Section

Teaching
1980
Associated Students of California Institute of Technology 4th Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching
1981
Associated Students of California Institute of Technology 5th Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching
2007
Associated Students of California Institute of Technology 31st Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching