Peter Wipf

Biography

Peter Wipf received his Dipl. Chem. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Zürich under the direction of Professor Heinz Heimgartner. After a Swiss NSF postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Robert E. Ireland at the University of Virginia, Wipf began his appointment at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1990. Since 2004, he is a Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He also serves as a co-Leader of the UPCI Molecular Therapeutics and Drug Discovery Program and the Chair of the Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences of the AAAS. Peter Wipf’s research focuses on the total synthesis of natural products, organometallic and heterocyclic chemistry. Among recent awards, he is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014), the Mosher Award and Morley Medal (2013), and the Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products (2009). In 1998, he received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2010), the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2004), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, 2002). He has been an Associate Editor of ACS Med. Chem. Lett. since 2009 and serves on the Board of Directors of Organic Syntheses (since 2013) and Organic Reactions (since 2007).  

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical Sciences