Rudi Fasan
Chair of Chemistry University of Texas at Dallas
Rudi Fasan earned a BS degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Padua (Italy) and a PhD from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) working on the design and synthesis of beta-hairpin protein epitope mimetics under the supervision of Prof. John Robinson. In 2005, he joined Prof. Frances Arnold’s group at the California Institute of Technology working on the directed evolution of alkane hydroxylases. In 2008, Dr. Fasan began his independent career at the University of Rochester, where he currently holds a position of Full Professor of Chemistry. His research program focuses on the design, development, and investigation of peptide macrocycles as selective modulators of protein-protein interactions and on the engineering of metalloprotein catalysts for C-H functionalization and asymmetric C—C and C-heteroatom bond forming reactions. His awards include a SNSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007), the 2007 Friedrich-Weygand Young Investigator Award, a Provost Multidisciplinary Research Award (2011), and the 2014 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry.
Seminars
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- Learn how biocatalysis is enabling previously inaccessible or inefficient chemical transformations
