Sam Gellman
Professor Sam Gellman is one of three Robert Breslow Memorial Talk speakers for our symposium.
Samuel Gellman is the Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Gellman earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1981 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University, under the late Dr. Ronald Breslow, in 1986. After an NIH post-doctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, with Dr. Peter Dervan, Gellman joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987. His laboratory’s contributions include insights on the origin of protein folding preferences and pioneering studies of synthetic, biopolymer-inspired “foldamers”. The work from Gellman's laboratory has been recognized by the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 2007, the Vincent du Vigneaud Award from the American Peptide Society in 2006 and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society in 1997. In 2014, Dr. Gellman earned the prestigious Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry. He has served on the NIH Medicinal Chemistry Study Section, 1999-2002, and several editorial advisory boards, such as the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Biopolymers-Peptide Science, Chemical Society Reviews, and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. A fun fact about Dr. Gellman is that he donated part of his liver to his daughter through a living liver transplant.