Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Graduate Program
Andrew Braisted Award Lectureship
An endowed lecture has been established between the University of California San Francisco and the University of California Berkeley to bring scientists together in the San Francisco Bay Area who work at the Chemistry and Biology interface. The lecture was established in honor of Andrew Braisted, a young scientist in the Chemical Biology area who had strong ties to UCSF, UC Berkeley and the biotechnology industry and who died unexpectedly in 2003. The lectureship is meant to turn his untimely death into a positive force by making it a major, annual event of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology programs at UCSF and UC Berkeley. A committee was established in 2003 to determine the scientist who had made exceptional contributions in the fields of research that Andrew loved.
2004 Peter Schultz: New Opportunities at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology
2005 James Wells: Probing Allosteric Circuitry in Signaling Proteins
2006 Christopher Walsh: Halogenases: Natural Product Tailoring Enzymes
2007 Jack Szostak: Towards the Design and Synthesis of an Artificial Cell
2008 Thomas R. Cech: Telomerase Collaboration of RNA and Protein
2009 Carolyn Bertozzi: Imaging the Glycome