Alanna Schepartz
Professor Alanna Schepartz is one of three Robert Breslow Memorial Talk speakers for our symposium.
Professor Schepartz worked under the supervision of Professor Ronald Breslow before doing her post-doctoral work under at Caltech under Professor Peter Dervan. She joined UC Berkeley College of Chemistry in 2019 and is currently also the editor-in-chief of ACS Biochemistry. Professor Schepartz is a leader in the creative application of chemical principles to understand and control biological recognition and function, as shown in one of her work on the development of β-peptide bundles as protein ligands and as building blocks of protein-like architectures. During her tenure, Professor Schepartz has received numerous awards and has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Some of the awards that she received include the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, a N.S.F. Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, an A.C.S. Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the A.C.S. Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, the Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, the Frank H. Westheimer Prize Medal, the ACS Chemical Biology Prize & Prize Lecture, for which she was the inaugural recipient, the Alexander M. Cruickshank Prize, the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry, the Wheland Medal, and the A.C.S. Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry. In 2010, Professor Schepartz was elected as a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Chemical Society.