Appointed as the A. Barton Hepburn Chair of Chemistry and Director of the Merck Center for Catalysis at Princeton University.
 
Appointed as the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Chemistry
 
Joined the department of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
 
Dave began his independent research career at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
Postdoctoral research fellow with Professor David A. Evans at Harvard University.
 
Doctoral studies under the direction of Professor Larry E. Overman at the University of California, Irvine.
 
Undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
 
 
2006: Artur C. Cope Scholars Award
 
2006: Mukaiyama Award
 
2006: Thieme-IUPAC Prize
 
2005: Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator
 
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
 
 
2005 - present: Chemistry, An Asian Journal
 
2004 - present: Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
 
2001 - present: Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters
 
 
2004 - present: Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, NJ
 
2001 - present: Materia, Inc., 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
 
 
NIH
UC AIDS
Petroleum Research
Research Corporation
Research Fund
Foundation
 
(NIGMS)
Sloan Fellowship
NSF
Inovation Award
 
Cottrell Scholar