Peter G. Schultz | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (BS, PhD) |
Awards | ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (1990) Wolf Prize (1994) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemical biology |
Institutions | The Scripps Research Institute, |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Dervan |
Other academic advisors | Christopher Walsh |
Notable students | David Liu Sara Cherry Nathanael Gray Kevan M. Shokat Virginia Cornish Alice Y. Ting Young-Tae Chang |
Peter G. Schultz (born June 23, 1956) is an American chemist. He is the CEO and Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute,[1] the founder and former director of GNF,[2] and the founding director of the California Institute for Biomedical Research (Calibr), established in 2012. In August 2014, Nature Biotechnology ranked Schultz the #1 top translational researcher in 2013.[3]