Dr. Cramer received his A.B. degree from Harvard University in Chemistry and Physics in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. Dr. Cramer worked for Polaroid Corporation from 1967 through 1969. This was followed by a two year fellowship as a senior member of the computer synthesis group at Harvard University under direction of Dr. E. J. Corey. Dr. Cramer joined Smith Kline & French Laboratories in 1971. He was awarded a succession of titles culminating in Associate Director and Fellow Medicinal Chemistry. Dr. Cramer joined Tripos in 1983 as Vice President of New Products where he formulated the techniques of Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA) a patented software technology at Tripos. Dr. Cramer was named Vice President of Scientific Activities in 1988. Dr. Cramer also founded STATS Inc. (now a division of Fox Sports) in 1981 and continued to be active in various senior capacities notably as Chief Technical Officer until 1995. Dr. Cramer was promoted to Tripos' Senior Vice President Science and Chief Scientific Officer of Tripos in June 2000 and is currently occupied with extensions to Tripos' patented ChemSpaceT/topomer technology which he created for the use in Tripos' chemical synthesis laboratories (Tripos Receptor Research) in Cornwall UK. |