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Patrick Harran was raised in upstate New York and first pursued chemistry at Skidmore College. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1995 and spent the following two years as an NIH fellow at Stanford University prior to beginning his independent career at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1997. He was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2002 and Professor in 2005. Dr. Harran’s research concerns the synthesis of small organic molecules both natural and designed. He has been a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the recipient of a CAREER award from the NSF, an Eli Lilly Grantee, winner of the AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award, the Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Skidmore College, the Merck Chemistry Council Award, and the 2005 E. Bright Wilson Prize from Harvard University. Patrick Harran was recently named Mar Nell and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry. | 