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Schepartz, Alanna

Professional Positions

Current - UC Berkeley:
T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology
Faculty Affiliate, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, QB3
University of California, Berkeley
Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub-San Francisco
Innovation Investigator, ARC Institute

Past - Yale University:
1988: Assistant Professor of Chemistry
1992: Associate Professor of Chemistry
1994: Milton Harris, '29 Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry
1995: Professor of Chemistry
2000: Milton Harris, '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry
2001: Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
2017: Sterling Professor of Chemistry

Education

1982: B.S., Chemistry; State University of New York, Albany, NY
1987: Ph.D., Chemistry; Columbia University, New York, NY

Awards & Honors

University of California, Berkeley
2020 ACS Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
2020 Streck Award in Chemical Biology
2021 Vincent du Vigneaud Award, American Peptide Society
2021 Mertes Award, University of Kansas
2022 Chan Zuckerberg Institute Investigator
2022-2023 Miller Institute Faculty Fellow
2023 ARC Institute Innovation Investigator
2024 Division of Chemical Toxicology Lecturer

Yale University
1990 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow
1991 Eli Lilly Biochemistry Fellow
1991 Morse Faculty Fellow, Yale University
1991 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award
1993 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
1994 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
1995 Invited Lecturer, National Organic Symposium
1995 A.C.S. Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
1997 A.C.S. Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
1998-2001 Chair, N.I.H. Study Section on Natural Products and Bioorganic Chemistry 1999 Dylan Hixon '88 Award for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences
2002 Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award
2002-2007 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
2003 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2003-2005 Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the American Chemical Society
2005 Invited Lecturer, National Organic Symposium
2008 Frank H. Westheimer Prize Medal
2010 A.C.S. Chemical Biology Prize & Prize Lecture, inaugural recipient
2010 Alexander M. Cruickshank Prize
2010 Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2010 Elected Fellow, American Chemical Society
2012 A.C.S. Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry
2014 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences
2015 Elected Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
2015 Wheland Prize Medal
2016 Editor-in-Chief, Biochemistry
2017 Sterling Professor, Yale University
2018 Inspiring Yale Award, Yale University
2018 Journal Rejuvenation Award, ACS Publications

Alanna Schepartz

Alanna Schepartz
Councilor
T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
UC Berkeley