Dr. Herman Sintim
- Richard B. Wetherill Distinguished Professor
- Email: hsintim@purdue.edu
- Phone: 66078
- Office: 123 DRUG/ 4103A BRWN
- Professor Herman Sintim's individual homepage
Research Interests
- Novel chemical libraries via multi-component reactions.
- New anticancer agents targeting G-quadruplexes and kinases.
- The chemical biology of bacterial communication, virulence factors production and biofilm formation (quorum sensing and c-di-GMP/c-di-AMP signaling in bacteria).
- The discovery of new antibiotics with novel modes of action.
- Cyclic dinucleotide and STING signaling in immune cells.
Education
- BSc, University College London, 1999
- Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2002
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, 2004
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2006
Awards
- Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2015
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2011
- Allen Angerio Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentorship, 2010
- Kavli Fellow (Indo-US Frontiers of science symposium, 2009
- Career Award, 2008
- UMD Invention of the year finalist, 2008
- University of Maryland General Research Board Summer Research Award, 2007
- Roche's top award, Switzerland (Leading Chemists of the Next Decade Symposium), 2002
- First Innocentive Awardee (Eli Lilly): Profile featured in The Scientist, Volume 16 (1), page 60 (Seeking Scientific Riddle Solvers), 2001
- Pfizer UK PhD Prize (First Prize Award), 2001
- ORS fellowship, (University of Oxford), 2000
- Pathfinder fellow, (University College London), 1996