Carlos F Barbas

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Kellogg Professor and Chair, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and the Departments of Molecular Biology and Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

EDUCATION:
PhD, Texas A&M University, 1989

AWARDS & ACTIVITIES:
• Director, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Annual Course on 'Phage Display of Combinatorial Libraries'
• Co-recipient of the 2000 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
• W Keith Kellogg II Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Molecular Biology
• Investigator Award, Cancer Research Institute
• Scholar of the American Foundation for AIDS Research
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• ISI highly cited Researcher
• ACS Cope Scholar Award
• Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
• NIH Directors Pioneer Award
• Co-Founder, Prolifaron Inc
• Founder, CovX Pharmaceuticals
• Founder, Zyngenia Inc
• Founder, Vesper Biologics Inc

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Our laboratory is concerned with problems in molecular biology, chemistry and medicine. Many of our studies involve learning nature's strategies, improving upon them, or inventing new approaches to prepare novel proteins and small molecules that perform specific functional tasks like regulating a gene, destroying cancer, or catalyzing a reaction with enzyme-like efficiency.

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