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Gary H. Posner
Johns Hopkins University Phone: 410.516.4670 Ph.D. - Harvard University Professor Posner's research deals generally with development of new synthetic methods and asymmetric synthesis of natural products, with special emphasis on design and synthesis of new compounds having beneficial effects on the quality of human life (i.e., new medicinal agents). Recently, the Posner research team has prepared a promising analog of vitamin D3 for treatment of chronic kidney disease, a promising analog of the Chinese medicine qinghaosu (artemisinin) for treatment of malaria, and some new trioxanes as promising lead compounds for chemotherapy of cancer. Professor Posner is well known for his involvement with organocopper chemistry as a researcher and writer. His original research publications and his two review articles and one book on organocopper chemistry have helped to make this area one of the fastest developing ones in modern synthetic organometallic chemistry. |
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