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My Brief Resume
I grew up in Redding, California and graduated from Shasta High School in 1986. After graduation from Shasta, I moved to San Diego and attended Point Loma Nazarene University for four years. Upon graduation from Point Loma with Bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and biology, in 1990 I moved to Reno, Nevada to attend graduate school under the guidance of David A. Lightner at the University of Nevada in organic chemistry. After completion of my doctorate in 1995, I accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in photoorganic chemistry under the guidance of William G. Dauben at the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!). After the completion of my fellowship, I joined a small company in Menlo Park, California by the name Neurex Corporation. While working as a Medicinal Chemist for Neurex, I worked with a team of scientists on a novel pain drug called SNX-111. This drug was actually quite remarkable in that it is 100-1000 times more powerful than morphine, without many of the associated side effects. Neurex was purchased by Elan Pharmaceuticals and shortly after I left biotech to pursue my current career in academia. I’ve been a Professor of Chemistry at Northwest Nazarene University since 1999. |
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