F. Dean Toste delivers Max Tishler Prize Lecture
On Tuesday, May 2 Professor F. Dean Toste delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture entitled "Supramolecular Hosts as Enzyme Mimics."
Dr. Dean Toste is currently the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Toste was born in Portugal and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in chemistry and biochemistry and from Stanford University in 2000 with a Ph.D. in chemistry. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology he joined the faculty of at UC Berkeley in 2002.
According to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, "Toste has been responsible for the renaissance in the area of organic transformations catalyzed by gold (Au) complexes, including isomerization, addition, rearrangement, oxidative functionalization, enantioselective cycloaddition, hydroamination and fluorination catalysis, and the use of chiral counterions as a new paradigm for asymmetric catalysis. The Toste group has made interdisciplinary contributions to catalysis on surfaces, supramolecular chemistry, and the conversion of biomass into chemicals and fuels. Recognition for Toste's work includes the IUPAC prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Cope Scholar and E. J. Corey Awards, and awards from chemical societies in the UK, Japan, Belgium and Germany."
The Max Tishler Prize Lectureship was established in 1951 by an award from the Merck Sharp & Dohme Company in recognition of Tishler's major contributions to the company. Tishler provided scientific leadership at the Merck Company during a period of extraordinary growth and success in research. He was instrumental in the development of new drugs for a variety of diseases including heart disease, hypertension, arthritis, infectious diseases and mental depression. Tishler was widely regarded as one of the leading industrial organic chemists of the 20th century in the United States. His contributions to science, technology and education over more than five decades were widely recognized. Tishler was an advisor and benefactor to Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department for many years.
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