Elsevier, a global information analytics business specialising in science and health, and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series, have announced that the 2019 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Peter Schultz, President and CEO of the Scripps Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA. Prof. Schultz receives this year’s award for his advances in fields of chemical biology and drug discovery.
Credited with the development and application of methods to expand the genetic code of living organisms, the discovery of catalytic antibodies, Prof. Schultz also expanded the application of molecular diversity technologies to address problems in chemistry, biology and medicine.
Awarded annually the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry was established in 1980 to honour the memory of the journal’s founding by the co-Chairmen of the Tetrahedron publications, Professor Sir Robert Robinson and Professor Robert Burns Woodward.
The award consists of a gold medal, a certificate and a monetary award of USD $15,000. The prize will be presented during the American Chemical Society’s 2020 Fall National Meeting in San Francisco, California, between August 16-20, 2020.
The Tetrahedron series consists of four premier journals publishing experimental and theoretical research results of outstanding significance and timeliness in the fields of organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry. Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters deals with organic chemistry and related disciplines especially bio-organic chemistry. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry and Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters focus on medicinal chemistry, chemical biology and drug discovery and design, emphasizing new and emerging advances and concepts in these fields.
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