John L. Wood | |
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| Born | December 4, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado Boulder (B.S., 1985) University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., 1990) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Harvard University Yale University Colorado State University Baylor University |
| Doctoral advisor | Amos B. Smith, III |
| Website | http://www.johnwoodgroup.com/ |
John L. Wood (born December 4, 1961) is a Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Scholar; and Associate Editor for the Americas, Tetrahedron Letters at Baylor University.
Wood received a B.A. degree from the University of Colorado in 1985 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He then moved to Harvard University as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow and continued studying natural products synthesis in the laboratories of Stuart Schreiber. He joined the faculty at Yale University in 1993 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1998. In 2006, he joined the faculty at Colorado State University as the Albert I. Meyers Professor of Chemistry.