标题: 菲尔-巴兰 有机化学家 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-18 05:09 标题: 菲尔-巴兰 有机化学家 Phil Baran
Organic Chemist | Class of 2013
Inventing efficient, scalable, and environmentally sound methods for recreating in the laboratory natural products with potential pharmaceutical applications.
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Title
Organic Chemist
Affiliation
Scripps Research Institute
Location
La Jolla, California
Age
36 at time of award
Area of Focus
Chemistry
Website
Baran Lab
Scripps Research Institute: Phil Baran
Social
Twitter: Baran Lab
Published September 25, 2013
ABOUT PHIL'S WORK
Phil Baran is an organic chemist recreating pharmacologically interesting compounds isolated from natural sources de novo in the laboratory through an experimental methodology known as “total synthesis.” In nature, complex molecules are synthesized in catalytic pathways that have evolved incrementally over millions of years, but many cannot be harvested in sufficient quantities to provide viable pharmaceutical solutions. Baran has invented new approaches to synthesizing natural products en masse, offering solutions for the cost and supply problems in drug development and creating alternative methods for obtaining industrial quantities of biologically active compounds with minimal environmental impact.
Working across a broad spectrum of chemistry—from indole alkaloids to terpenes—he has devised ingeniously concise routes to notoriously challenging target molecules that are of great utility for pharmaceutical applications spanning antibacterial, antiviral, and tumor-inhibiting activity. More recently, he developed an affordable, elegant method for synthesizing cortistatin A, an unusual, marine-derived steroidal alkaloid that has shown strong potential in treating conditions ranging from macular degeneration to cancer due to its antiangiogenesis properties.
Baran has also devised a scalable and more economical route to synthesis of ouabagenin, a steroid indicated for the treatment of congestive heart failure, enabling broader use of a treatment option whose production costs put it out of reach for most patients. Baran’s research is not only enhancing our ability to make fundamental structures for a broad range of medicines and materials, but is also strengthening the intellectual foundations of organic chemistry.
BIOGRAPHY
Phil Baran received a B.S. (1997) from New York University and a Ph.D. (2001) from Scripps Research Institute. He was a postdoctoral associate (2001–2003) at Harvard University before joining the faculty of Scripps Research Institute, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry. His scientific papers have appeared in Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, among others.
