Department of Chemistry
The Johns Hopkins University
138 Remsen Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Gerald J. Meyer
Department Chair

Phone 410-516-7429
Fax 410-516-8420
chemdept@jhu.edu

Gary H. Posner

Medicinal, Organic and Organometallic Chemistry

Johns Hopkins University
Remsen 216
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:  410.516.4670
Email:  ghp@jhu.edu
Posner Group Website

Ph.D. - Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow - University of California, Berkeley

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.