Education
1979 B.S. (summa cum laude), Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1984 Ph. D., Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Research Advisor: Professor Peter Dervan
Thesis Title: "Ground and Excited State Studies of 1,1-Diazenes/Design of Sequence Specific DNA Cleaving Molecules"
1984 Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Advisor: Professor Christopher Walsh

Professional Experience
1985 - 1987: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
1985 - 2003: Principal Investigator, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1987 - 1989: Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
1988: Founder, Affymax Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
1989 - 1999: Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
1993 - 2000: Scientific Advisory Board, CV Therapeutics, Mountain View, CA
1994 - 1998: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
1995 - present: Founder and Director, Symyx Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
1999 - present: Scripps Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
1999 - present: Institute Director, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA
2000: Founder, Syrrx Inc., La Jolla, CA
2001: Founder, Kalypsys, La Jolla, CA
2002: Founder, Phenomix, La Jolla, CA
2003 - present: Scientific Advisory Board, 5AM Ventures
2003 - present: Founder and Director, Ambrx, La Jolla, CA
2004: Founder, Ilypsa, Santa Clara, CA
2005 - present, Director, Nanosphere, Chicago, IL

Honors and Awards
2005 Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society
2002 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
2000 Alfred Bader Award in Bioorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
1998 Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
1996 Discover Magazine Awards for Technological Innovation
1995 California Scientist of the Year Award
1994 Honorary Doctor of Sciences, Uppsala University of Sweden
1994 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
1993 National Academy of Sciences, USA
1993 Harrison Howe Lectureship Award, Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society
1992 Ciba-Geigy Drew Award in Biomedical Research, Ciba-Geigy
1992 College of Chemistry Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley
1992 DuPont Merck Young Investigator Award, The Protein Society
1991 Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon
1992 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1991 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award, Department of Energy
1991 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, American Chemical Society
1991-1992 Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1990 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990 American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry
1990 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
1988 Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation
1988 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
1986 Eli Lilly Scholar
1985 Searle Scholar
1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1985 Dreyfus Junior Faculty Grantee
1984 Nobel Laureate Signature Award, American Chemical Society
1983 McKoy Award, Outstanding Graduate Research, Caltech
1983 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow
1983 IBM Fellow
1979-1982 National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow
1979 Sigma Xi Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Research

Professional Affiliations and Services
NIH BNP Study Section (1992-1996)
Caltech Chemistry Advisory Committee (1998-present)
Searle Advisory Committee (1995-present)
Damon Runyon Advisory Board (1999-2004)
Welch Foundation Scientific Advisory Board (2002-present)
Princeton Chemistry Advisory Committee (1994-1996)