Phil S. Baran
Darlene Shiley Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
Meet Phil S. Baran
Phil has racked up a number of impressive natural product syntheses, and won dozens of chemistry’s highest accolades. His passion is “fundamental chemistry with rapid translational potential” and a pivotal moment was when he realized “one can’t trust in public funding alone to finance a lab.”
Phil would like to see more partnerships with academic labs, and the appointment of chemists to leadership positions.