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The Wender Group addresses unsolved problems in chemistry, synthesis, biology, medicine, and materials science using new computational tools, new reactions, reagents, strategies and design. Leveraging affiliations with the Medical School, Imaging Center, Chemical Biology Program and Molecular Therapeutics Program as well as numerous internal and external collaborations, the lab emphasizes the use of chemistry, design and synthesis to address problems of significance in biology and medicine, including eradication of HIV/AIDS, overcoming resistant cancer, cancer immunotherapy and treating cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
Paul Wender received his B.S. degree from Wilkes University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University. He was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. He served on the faculty at Harvard University and joined the faculty at Stanford University where he is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. Professor Wender’s research has been recognized with numerous awards including recently the Tetrahedron Prize, Prelog Medal (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Arthur Cope Award (American Chemical Society), Cohen Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry (Israel Chemical Society), and Research Award of the German Bioactives and Biotechnology Leibniz Allaince. He has also been recognized with several teaching awards including the Hoagland Prize, Bing Teaching Award, and the Dean's Teaching Award. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Chemistry
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Professor (By courtesy), Chemical and Systems Biology
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Member, Bio-X
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Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
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Faculty Fellow, Stanford ChEM-H
Honors & Awards
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Research Award of the German Bioactives and Biotechnology, Leibniz Alliance (2016)
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Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (2015)
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Cohen Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry, Israel Chemical Society (2015)
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Office of Technology Licensing Innovator Award, Stanford University (2015)
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Prelog Medal, ETH, Switzerland (2013)
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Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, Tetrahedron Publications (2012)
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Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal (Yale Graduate Alumni), Yale University (2010)
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The Hamilton Award, University of Nebraska (2008)
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MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (2006)
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H.C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods, American Chemical Society (2003)
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MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health (2003)
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Member, National Academy of Science (2003)
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Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)
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Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University (2000)
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Award for Creative work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1998)
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Pfizer Research Award for Synthetic Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1995)
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Bing Teaching Award, Stanford University (1992)
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Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
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ASSU Teaching Award, Stanford University ASSU (1991)
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Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1991)
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Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching, Stanford University (1991)
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Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society (1990)
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Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (1988)
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Stuart Award for Excellence in Chemistry, ICI Pharmaceutical Group (1988)
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Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (1980)
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Yale University, Chemistry (1973)
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B.S., Wilkes College, Chemistry (1969)
Patents
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Paul Wender, Jung-Min Kee, Jeffrey Warrington. "United States Patent 8,067,632 A Process to Produce Prostratin and Structural or Functional Analogs Thereof", Leland Stanford Junior University, Nov 29, 2011
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Christina Cooley, Erika Geihe Stanzl, Robert Waymouth, Paul Wender. "United States Patent 61,531,495 Amphipathic Co-Oligomers for the Delivery of SIRNA", Leland Stanford Junior University, Sep 11, 2011
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Paul Wender, Lars Heumann, Rainer Kramer, Carolyn Gauntlett, Elizabeth Beans. "United States Patent 12/839,808 Prostratin Analogs, Bryostatin Analogs, Prodrugs, Synthetic Methods, and Methods of Use", Leland Stanford Junior University, Jul 20, 2010