Hoveyda | Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis

Amir H. Hoveyda is the Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry at Boston College, a position he has held since 1998. Since January 2019, he has also been the Director of Catalysis in Chemical Synthesis at the Institute for Supramolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Strasbourg. He received his B. A. degree at Columbia, and was a graduate student at Yale. He was an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. His honors include a ten-year NIH MERIT Award (2005), the Yamada-Koga Prize (2010), the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Organic Synthesis (2014), the Eni Prize for Hydrocarbon Research (2014), and the American Chemical Society H. C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (2020).  His scholarly interests are in the development of new approaches, and discovery of catalysts and methods for chemical synthesis through investigation of reaction mechanism with particular emphasis to biological activity and drug development. Hoveyda and Richard Schrock are the co-founders of XiMo.