Ryan E Looper
Professor
Department of chemistry
Huntsman Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Education B.S., Chemistry, Western Washington University M.S., Chemistry, Western Wahington University. Project: Total synthesis of the heliannuols; allelopathic natural products. Ph.D., Chemistry, Colorado State University. Project: Synthesis of the Cylindrospermopsin alkaloids. Post-Doctoral Fellow, Chemical Biology, Harvard University Honors & Awards ACS Teva Pharmaceutical Scholar (2015). ACS, 08/17/2015 University of Utah Presidential Scholar. University of Utah , 07/2015 Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholar Award. University of Utah , 05/2014 Thieme Journals Award for Creative Research. Thieme Journals, 09/18/2011
Research Interest
Organic Chemistry
Publications
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Travis J. Haussener, Paul R. Sebahar, Hariprasada K. Reddy, Dustin L. Williams and Ryan E. Looper “A Practical Synthesis of N-alkyl- and N’,N’-dialkyl polyaminesâ€, Tetrahedron Letters. 2016, 57, 2845-2848. Published, 06/29/2016.
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Justin M. Salvant, Anne V. Edwards, Joseph B. Gibbons, Daniel Z. Kurek†, Ryan E. Looper “Regioselective base-mediated cyclizations of mono-N acylpropargylguanadines†2016, submitted to J. Org. Chem. Submitted, 08/2016.
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Samuel K. McBrayer, Jared R. Mayers, Gabriel J. DiNatale, Diana Shi, Kristopher A. Sarosiek, Kimberly J. Briggs, Alissa K. Robbins, Benjamin A. Olenchock, Seth J. Parker, Kensuke Tateishi, Ryan E. Looper, Keith L. Ligon, Daniel P. Cahill, John M. Asara, Christian M. Metallo, Neela H. Yennawar, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, William G. Kaelin, Jr. “Direct Inhibition of BCAT by 2HG Impairs Glutamate Biosynthesis and Redox Homeostasis in Glioma†2016 submitted to Science. Released, 10/2016.
