Paul A. Wender PhD

Paul Wender received his Ph.D. from Yale University, was an NIH Fellow at Columbia University, served on the faculty at Harvard University, and is currently the Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at Stanford University. He serves on several internal and external advisory boards and has founded various companies based on his research.

His work is described in >300 publications and >20 issued or pending patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including more recently the 2015 Stanford Office of Technology Licensing Innovator Award, the 2015 Israel Chemical Society Cohen Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry, the 2015 ACS Cope Award, and the 2016 Research Award of the German Bioactives and Biotechnology Leibniz Alliance.