William L. Jorgensen
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[edit] William L. Jorgensen
William L. Jorgensen (b. October 5th 1949) is the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He is considered a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry. He has over 300 publications in the field, and currently holds the position of editor of four academic journals: Encyclopedia of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling (formerly JCICS), Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. He also holds positions on the editorial advisory boards of many other journals. He has been involved in the founding of multiple biotechnology companies. He develops and sells software to pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and academic researchers for drug design and other research applications, more can be found on this from The Jorgensen Group, Cemcomco, LLC, or Schrödinger.
[edit] Educational Information and Past Employment
Jorgensen earned a Bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1970 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975 in Chemical Physics while studying under organic chemistry legend E. J. Corey. Jorgensen then worked at Purdue University from 1975-1990 first as an Assistant Professor and then later as a Professor. He joined the Yale faculty in 1990 and has remained there since.
[edit] Research Interests
Jorgensen's research interests are broad and include the calculation of free-energies in reactions using quantum mechanical, molecular mechanical, in addition to Monte Carlo methods, the calculation of protein-ligand bindings affinities, all of which are relevant to both academic research and the pharmaceutical industry. Most simply put his research for the past 30 years has mostly been on the development of theoretical and computational methods in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the structure and reactivity for organic and biomolecular systems. Another relevant research topic of his is in the development of improved NNRTI's, which are used for the treatment of HIV. Much more can be learned about his research at the Jorgensen Research Group web page.
[edit] Awards and Honors
2004 Sato Memorial International Award - Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
2004 Award in Computational Biology - Intl. Society for Quantum Biology & Pharmacology
1998 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994
1990 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation, 1990-1992
Special Creativity Award, National Science Foundation, 1989-1991
1986 Annual Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, 1978-1983
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1979-1981
A.B. summa cum laude; McCay Prize, Princeton University
[edit] Sources
http://zarbi.chem.yale.edu/index.html http://zarbi.chem.yale.edu/~bill/vita.html http://rib-x.com/jorgensen.html http://www.chem.yale.edu/faculty/jorgensen.html http://pubs.acs.org/journals/jcisd8/profiles.html
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