About the Speaker:

Bio:

Joseph M. Fox is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware, where he also is the Director of the NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence on the Discovery of Chemical Probes and Therapeutic Leads.

A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fox received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where he conducted undergraduate research as a Pfizer fellow. He completed graduate studies at Columbia University, where he developed a combined interest in materials science and the synthesis of challenging targets. He studied organometallic chemistry at MIT as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, where he worked on Pd-catalyzed ketone arylation and devised a synthesis of phosphine ligands that is now used commercially.

Research Interests:

Research in the Fox group centers on the development of new types of chemical reactions, the application of these new reactions to the synthesis of natural occurring and designed molecules with biological function, and in the use of design concepts in organic synthesis for applications in materials science. The nature of the research program is highly multidisciplinary, and involves active collaborations with groups in peptide chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, surface science, computational chemistry, materials science, and radioimaging.

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