Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry
Ph.D., 1971, Harvard University
M. A., 1967, Harvard University
B. A., 1966, Harvard College

Philip J. Bray Award for Teaching Excellence in the Physical Sciences, Brown University, 2008
Ph. D. (honoris causa) University of Kalmar, Sweden, 2007
Repligen Award, ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, 2005
Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 2004
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003
Prelog Medal of the E. T. H., Zürich, 2002
Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the ACS, 2000
Visiting Professor, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 1999
Fogarty International Center Senior International Fellow, 1999
Visiting Professor, University of California, San Francisco,1998-1999
Co-Chair 1996 Gordon Research Conference on Enzymes, Coenzymes & Metabolic Pathways
Associate Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1995-2003
Visiting Professor, Technion, Haifa, 1994-1995
Kitasato Medal in Microbial Chemistry, 1995
National Institutes of Health MERIT Award, 1994-2002
Simonsen Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1990-91
Fulbright Commission Grant-in Aid, 1990
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1990
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge 1989-90
Fogarty International Center Senior International Fellow, 1989
Chairman, Department of Chemistry 1983-89
Ernest Guenther Award of the ACS, 1985
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1983
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Natural Products, 1982
Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, 1980
P.H.S. Research Career Development Award 1978-1983
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1978-1982
National Institutes of Health Post-doctoral Fellow, ETH, Zurich, 1971-73

Research Interests: Chemistry, Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Natural Products Biosynthesis