About David W.C. MacMillan
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry
Career
August 2011 Appointed as James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton ii University.
July 2010 Appointed as Chairperson of the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University.
July 2006 Appointed as Director of the Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University.
June 2006 Appointed as the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.
Sept 2004 Appointed as Earle C. Anthony Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology.
June 2000 Joined the department of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
July 1998 Dave began his independent research career at the University of California, Berkeley.
1996-1998 Postdoctoral research fellow with Professor David A. Evans at Harvard University.
1991-1996 Doctoral studies with Professor Larry E. Overman at the University of California, Irvine.
1987-1991 Undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
Editorial Advisory Board
2010 - Present Chemical Science [Editor-in-Chief]
2009 - Present Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
2005 - Present Chemistry, An Asian Journal
2004 - Present Chemical Communications
2001 - Present Tetrahedron & Tetrahedron Letters
Scientific Advisory Board
2010 - Present Chiromics [Co-founder]
2004 - Present Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, NJ
2001 - Present Materia, Inc., CA
2001 - Present Merck Research Laboratories, Permanent Member of the Research Strategy Review Committee (RSRC)
Scientific Consultant
2009 - Present Constellation Pharmaceuticals, CA
2003 - Present Gilead Pharmaceuticals, CA
2002 - Present Amgen Pharmaceuticals, (worldwide)
2001 - Present Merck Research Laboratories (worldwide)
2001 - Present Bayer Pharmaceuticals, CT
2000 - Present Johnson & Johnson, CA, NJ
2000 - Present Abbott Research Laboratories, Il
Awards and Honors
2012 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
2012 Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011 ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
2007 Mukaiyama Award
2007 ISHC Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry
2007 ACS Cope Scholar Award
2006 Thieme-IUPAC Prize in Organic Synthesis
2005 Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
2005 Tetrahderon Young Investigator Award
2005 Corday-Morgan Medal
2003 Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
2002 Sloan Fellowship
2002 Bristol-Meyers Squibb Award for Organic Synthesis
2002 Pfizer Award for Excellence in Synthesis
2001 Eli-Lilly Grantee Award
2001 Glaxo Smithkline Chemistry Scholar Award
2001 Eli-Lilly New Investigator Award
2001 Astra-Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award
2001 Cottrell Scholar Award
2001 Woodward Scholarship Award from Harvard
2000 Boehringer-Ingelheim New Investigator Award
Funding (non-profit)
National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Foundation; Research Corporation for Science Advancement; University of California AIDS Research Program
Funding (pharmaceuticals)
Merck, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Roche, Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Yamanouchi
Invited Talks
Invited Talks
July 2008 Plenary Lecture, Ischia Organic Chemistry Conference, Ischia, Italy
March 2008 Plenary Lecture, Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Yokohama
Jan 2008 Copenhagen Symposium on Catalysis, Denmark
October 2007 Banff Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Canada
Sept 2007 Merck Catalysis Symposium, Shanghai, China
Sept 2007 Mukaiyama Award Symposium, Awaji Island, Japan
August 2007 Brazilian Meeting on Organic Synthesis, Brazil
August 2007 Young Guns Conference on Organic Synthesis, San Francisco, CA
August 2007 Cope Scholar Award Lecture, Boston, MA
July 2007 ISHC Heterocyclic Award Lecture, Sydney, Australia
May 2007 Kyoto Conference on Organocatalysis, Japan
April 2007 Kende Lectureship, University of Rochester, NY
April 2007 Hellenic Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Athens, Greece.
April 2007 Bristol Synthesis Meeting, Bristol, UK.
March 2007 Cornforth Lectureship, University of Sydney, Australia
February 2007 Merck Lectureship, Stanford, CA.
January 2007 Novartis Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania, PA.
December 2006 Plenary Lecture, New Zealand International Chemistry Conference, Rototua, New Zealand
March 2006 Keynote Address, Ta-shue Chou Symposium, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Jan-Dec 2005 Novartis International Lecturer:
Boston, US; Basel, Switzerland; London, UK; NovartisInternational Tokyo, Japan; Vienna, Austria
December 2005 Organocatalysis Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii
December 2005 Plenary Lecture, Dublin Chemistry Symposium, Dublin, Ireland
November 2005 Cornforth Lectureship, University of Sydney, Australia
October 2005 Plenary Lecture, Yamada-Koga Prize Symposium, Yokyo, Japan
October 2005 Plenary Lecture, LOC Symposium, Charlemagne, Germany
Sept 2005 Key Address, Gregynogg Symposium, UK
July 2005 BASF Symposium in Catalysis, Heidelberg, Germany
May 2005 The Merck Lectures, Cembridge University, UK
March 2005 Award Lecture for EJ Corey Prize, San Diego, US
January 2005 Plenary Lecture, Frontiers in Organic Chemistry, Yale University, US
December 2004 Ertdman Lecturer, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
October 2004 Fuson Lectureship, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Sept 2004 Plenary Lecture, IASOC XI, Ischia, Italy
Sept 2004 Syngenta Lectureship, Basel Chemical Society, Basel, Switzerland
Sept 2004 Plenary Lecture, French Cemical Society, Paris France
July 2004 New Frontiers in Organic Synthesis, Edinburgh, Scotland
July 2004 Plenary Lecture, Belgian Organic Symposium, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
July 2004 AOCC Plenary Lecture, Cairns, Perth, Sydney, Australia
June 2004 Plenary Lecture, BOS 2004, Riga, Latvia
June 2004 UMEDS Plenary Lecture, Zaragoza, Spain
June 2004 Merck Lectureship, Imperial College, London, UK
May 2004 Lundbeck Lectureship, Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2004 Baker Lecture, Cornell University, NY
April 2004 Inspire Lectureship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
April 2004 BMS Lectureship, University of California, Berkeley, CA
March 2004 Paul Dowd Lectureship, University of Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004 Chemistry as a Life Science Symposium, Princeton, NJ
October 2003Invited Speaker: 9th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic
Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan
July 2003Plenary Speaker: International Symposium on Synthesis in Organic Chemistry,
Camibridge University, UK
July 2003Plenary Speaker: International Conference on Heterocycles, Ft. Collins, CO
May 2003Derome Lectureship, Oxford University, UK
April 2003Plenary Speaker: National Organic Symposium
April 2003Plenary Speaker: International Symposium on Catalysis, Holland
April 2003Invited Speaker, Burgenstock, Switzerland
March 2003ACS Perspectives Symposium on Catalysis, Boston, MA
February 2003Plenary Speaker: Advances in Catalysis Symposium, Puerto Rico
January 2003Columbia University, NY
December 2002Plenary Speaker: ISSIN, Osaka University, Tokyo, Japan
October 2002Plenary Speaker: CMDS Symposium, KAIST, Daejon Korea
October 2002Plenary Speaker: ACS Princeton Symposium, NJ
October 2002Philadelphia Chemists Society meeting to honor Franklin Davis, PA
July 2002Plenary Speaker: Roche Symposium, Boulder, CO Plenary Speaker
July 2002 Merck Worldwide Symposium, Montreal
May 2002International Symposium on Recent Developments in Organometallic and
The Symposium on Organic Synthesis, University of Montreal
April 2002ACS Award Symposium for Professor Clayton Heathcock
April 2002Plenary Speaker: SCI Symposium on Enantioselective Organocatalysis, London
April 2002Merck Lecturer UK, Manchester, Leeds
March 2002Stanford University
March 2002Keynote Speaker: NCCC III Symposium, Amsterdam
March 2002Holland Cram Memorial Symposium, UCLA
February 2002Mesilla Chemistry Workshop, "Asymmetric Catalysis," NM
November 2001Astra Zeneca New Investigator Award Symposium
October 2001Harvard University, Woodward Scholar Lecture
Sept 2001Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sept 2001GlaxoSmithKline Chemistry Scholar Symposium
August 2001ACS Nakanishi Prize Symposium for Professor Jack Roberts
July 2001Invited Speaker ICHC, Yokohama, Japan
June 2001Symposium in Honor of Professor David Evans, Harvard University
May 2001Plenary Speaker Royal Society of Chemistry Grasmere Conference, UK
April 2001Michigan Distinguished Lecturer Tour
April 2001University of Chicago
February 2001University of California, Los Angeles
December 2000DuPont Symposium in Organic Synthesis, UC San Diego
October 2000Yale University, CT
October 2000Merck Pharmaceuticals, UK
July 2000Cambridge University, UK
January 2000California Institute of Technology, CA; UC Irvine, CA
October 1999The Scripps Research Institute, CA
