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Craig A. Townsend
Johns Hopkins University Phone: 410.516.7444 PhD - Yale University
Craig A. Townsend is the Alsoph H. Corwin Professor of Chemistry and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Biology and Biophysics. He received his B.A. with Honors in chemistry from Williams College and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Yale University, where he was an NIH Predoctoral Fellow and won the Richard L. Wolfgang Prize. He was then an International Exchange Postdoctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the ETH in Zurich, and joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1976. His research interests are in the areas of biosynthesis and chemistry of natural products; stereochemical and mechanistic studies of enzyme action; drug design; small molecule DNA interactions; enzymology and molecular biology of secondary metabolism; and the clinical applications of fatty acid synthesis inhibition in the treatment of cancer, infectious diseases and obesity. Professor Townsend has been a Research Fellow of the A. P. Sloan Foundation, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar; he has received the Maryland Chemist of the Year award and an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Stuart Pharmaceuticals (now Astra/Zeneca) Award in Chemistry. He has served on NIH Study Sections as a regular and ad hoc member, and is on the editorial board for Bioorganic Chemistry. He was cochair and cofounder of the Bioorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference and currently serves as an at-large member on the governing Council of the Gordon Research Conferences, and has advised the Office of Technology Assessment, the American Chemical Society and the National Institutes of Health. |
Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry