Samuel j danishefsky biography

Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936, Bayonne, NJ) is synthetic organic chemist who accomplished in natural products total synthesis and  pioneer for chemical synthesis of carbohydrates for the development of anticancer vaccines.

Currently, Danishefsky serves as Cenntenial Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, where he conducts research as well as at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s molecular pharmacology and chemistry program. He is one of the world’s pre-eminent medicinal chemists, recognized in particular for his work on the synthesis of anti-tumor agents derived from natural products.

Remarkably, many chemists appeared from his followers. Former students and postdocs include:

Peter Seeberger,  Dalibor Sames, Eric Sorensen, David Gin, Cholbum Lee, Matt Shair, Jon Clardy, Rob Coleman, Masahiro Hirama, Takeshi Kitihara, Raymond Funk, William Pearson, Jeffrey Aube, James Panek,  Robert Zamboni, Robert Volkman, J. T. Link, Mike Silvestri, Mike Bednarski, Margaret Chu Moyer, R.C. A. Isaacs, Roger Ruggeri, Ray Cvetovich, Dave Askin, Gayle Schul

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