Cynthia Burrows

Cynthia Jane Burrows
Cynthia Burrows interviewed by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in July 2009.
Alma mater	University of Colorado B.A. (1975) Cornell University Ph.D. (1982)
Scientific career
Thesis	Substituent Effects on the Aliphatic Claisen Rearrangement: Synthesis and Kinetic Studies of Cyano-Substituted Allyl Vinyl Ethers (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Barry Carpenter
Other academic advisors	Stanley Cristol, Jean-Marie Lehn

Cynthia J. Burrows is an American chemist, currently a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Utah, where she is also the Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry. Burrows was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2001-2013) and became Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research in 2014.^{[1], [2],[3]}