David MacMillan, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, has been named a recipient two awards for his work.
He will receive the American Chemical Society's Arthur C. Cope Scholar
Award at the society's meeting in Boston in August and will speak at a
symposium in his honor. In addition, he will be honored with the
Mukaiyama Award, presented by the Society of Synthetic Organic
Chemistry, Japan, and deliver a lecture at that society's summer
seminar in September.
The Cope Award, intended to recognize and encourage excellence in
organic chemistry, includes a $5,000 cash prize and a $40,000
unrestricted research grant. The $5,000 Mukaiyama Award is presented
each year to an individual age 45 or younger who has made outstanding
contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.
MacMillan's work involves the development of new chemical reactions
that allow the rapid construction of biomedically important natural
products, such as Diazonamide A, a potent inhibitor of cancer cells,
and Frondosin B, a molecule that will be used in the study of
autoimmune disorders such as arthritis and psoriasis.
MacMillan came to Princeton this summer from the California Institute
of Technology, where he had been on the faculty since 2000.
