Biography

CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL C. PIRRUNG

EDUCATION:

University of Texas, Austin, September 1973-December 1975

B.A. in Chemistry with Highest Honors.

University of California, Berkeley, September 1976-June 1980

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (with C. H. Heathcock).

Columbia University, 1980-81

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Organic Chemistry (with G. Stork).

HONORS:

Phi Beta Kappa, December 1975.

Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellow, 1978-80.

Dreyfus Foundation Award for Newly-Appointed Faculty, 1982-87.

Eli Lilly Grantee, 1984-86.

NSF Presidential Young Investigator, 1985-90.

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1986-88.

AAAS-Newcomb Cleveland Prize, 1991 (best paper in Science).

Intellectual Property Owners Distinguished Inventor Award, 1993.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1994-95.

Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award, University of Texas Ex-Student's Association, 1995.

Fellow of the AAAS, 1996.

Chemical Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists, 2004.

UC Presidential Chair in Chemistry, UC-Riverside, 2004-09.

European Inventor of the Year, 2006.

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2016.

POSITIONS:

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University, 1981-1989.

Senior Scientist, Affymax Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, 1989.

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Duke University, 1989-94.

Director, Biotechnology for Business, 1993-2013.

Professor of Chemistry, Duke University, 1994-2004.

Director, Duke University Program in Biological Chemistry, 1994-2004.

Professor of Chemistry, UC-Riverside, 2004-2012.

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC-Riverside, 2012-.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC-Irvine, 2013-

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS:

UC-Berkeley, 1988 (with P. A. Bartlett).

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1994-5 (with C. T. Caskey).

Burroughs Wellcome Professor, Dyson Perrins Laboratory, University of Oxford, 1995 (with Sir J. E. Baldwin).

UC-San Diego, 1998.

UC-Irvine, 2002.

Caltech, 2002.

RESEARCH:

Chemical Biology.

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, 1998-2003.

QSAR and Combinatorial Science, 2002-2009.

Cell Chemical Biology, 2004-2020.

Faculty Opinions, 2012-.

BioTech, 2016-

ADVISORY BOARDS: Genta, 1993-97.

Affymax Research Institute, 1994-95.

ChromaXome, 1995-9.

Oasis Biosciences, 1998-2002.

Orchid Biosciences, 1997-2003 (President's Fellow, 1999-2003).

Genicon Sciences, 2000-2003.

NimbleGen Systems, 2001-2005.

Hibiskus Biopharma (co-founder), 2017-2020.

Lodo Therapeutics, 2020-2021.

CONSULTANCIES:

DowElanco, 1985-1992.

Abbott Laboratories, 1991-94.

American Cyanamid, 1992-99.

Affymax Research Institute, 1995-98.

A. M. Pappas & Associates, 1997-2006.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, 1995-2009.