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Dennis P. Curran received his B.S. in 1975 from Boston College. His Ph.D. was granted from the University of Rochester in 1979 where he worked under Professor Andrew S. Kende. After a two year postdoctoral stay with Professor Barry M. Trost at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Curran joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. He now holds the ranks of Distinguished Service Professor and Bayer Professor of Chemistry, and is the American Editor of Tetrahedron: Asymmetry and Tetrahedron Letters. Among other awards, Dr Curran has received the American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award (1988), and the Janssen Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis (1998). He currently the President-Elect of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Dr. Curran has authored over 200 papers, six patents and one book, and is well known for his work at the interface of radical chemistry and organic synthesis. Dr. Curran is also a pioneer in the area of fluorous chemistry and the company is founded on the chemistry and technology that has emerged from his research group. | 