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Special Issue in honor of Prof. Laurence Hurley

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We are delighted to announce this special issue of Medicinal Chemistry Research honoring Prof. Laurence Hurley, a respected teacher and a well-known and highly regarded medicinal chemist.

You are invited to submit a review or research article to this special issue under the broad theme of drug design and discovery. The special issue will be guest edited by Dr. Wei Wang, Dr. Myron K. Jacobson and Dr. Elaine L. Jacobson.

Prof. Hurley received his B. Pharm with Honors from University of Bath in England in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry working with Prof. Heinz G. Floss and Ulfert Hornemann at Purdue University in 1970 and conducted his post-doctoral study with Prof. James P. Kutney in Chemistry Department at University of British Columbia, Canada from 1970-1972. He joined the faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore in 1972, and worked and was promoted from Assistant to Full Professor at the University of Kentucky from 1973 to 1980. He spent 20 years as faculty in the College of Pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin and served as the Head of Laboratory for Drug Design from 1981-2000. At UT Austin, he was Henry M. Burlage Centennial Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (1983–1986), James E. Bauerle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (1986-1988), George Hitchings Professor of Drug Design (1988-1992) and George Hitchings Regents Chair in Drug Design (1992-2000). Since 2000, he had been Howard J. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Arizona until his retirement in 2019. He has served as Chair, Chemistry in Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (2009) and Vice-Chair, American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Division (2009). He was the Associate Editor of Current Medicinal Chemistry (2001–2010) and the Senior Editor of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (1992–2010). He was the Founder and Scientific Director in Cylene Pharmaceuticals, Inc (1997-2006) and TetraGene LLC (2012-2016) and the Founder and CSO in Reglagene (2016-present). He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Purdue University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (1988), Volwiler Research Achievement Award, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (1989), Research Achievement Award in Medicinal Chemistry, American Pharmaceutical Association (1992), George & Christine Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy, Royal Society of Chemistry (2005), and Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (2008). He was inducted into the ACS MEDI Hall of Fame (1994) and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990) and a Fellow of National Academy of Inventers (2020). He has published 278 papers (with an H-Index of 92), 3 books, and filed 32 patents.

Editors

  • Wei Wang Wei Wang , 

    Wei Wang

    Co-Director, Arizona Center for Drug Discovery, and Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

  • Myron K. Jacobson Myron K. Jacobson  &

    Myron K. Jacobson

    Founding Dean, University of North Texas College of Pharmacy, and former Research Professor, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

  • Elaine Jacobson Elaine Jacobson

    Elaine Jacobson

    Former Research Professor, University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

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