Patrick G. Harran
Phone: (310) 825-6578
Professor Harran received his bachelors degree from Skidmore College in New York. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995 and completed an NIH sponsored postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 1997. That fall, he joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In 2005, he was promoted to Full Professor and named the Mar Nell & F Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry. He joined the faculty at UCLA in July 2008 as the inaugural D.J. & J.M. Cram Chair in Organic Chemistry.
Awards and Honors
Fellow of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, CAREER award from the NSF, 2003 Eli Lilly Grantee, 2002 AstraZenenca Excellence in Chemistry Award, the Pfizer Award for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Skidmore College, Merck Chemistry Council Awards, 2005 E. Bright Wilson Prize - Harvard University, Mar Nell and F Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair in Biochemistry – UT Southwestern, 2007 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from the Robert A. Welch Foundation, 2009 Glenn T. Seaborg Award – Alpha Chi Sigma.
