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Phil S. Baran

Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute

Phil has racked up a number of impressive natural product syntheses, and won dozens of chemistry’s highest accolades. His passion is “fundamental chemistry with rapid translational potential” and a pivotal moment was when he realized “one can’t trust in public funding alone to finance a lab.” Phil would like to see more partnerships with academic labs, and the appointment of chemists to leadership positions.

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