William R. Roush

William R. Roush joined the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida in 2005, as Professor of Chemistry, Executive Director of Medicinal Chemistry, and Associate Dean of Scripps’ Kellogg Graduate School. Prior to that, he held faculty positions at the University of Michigan, Indiana University and MIT.

Bill’s research focuses on drug discovery, chemical biology, the synthesis of complex natural products, and the development of new reactions and synthetic methods. He has received numerous awards for his scientific contributions, including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Merck Faculty Development Award, the Alan R. Day Award of the Philadelphia Organic Chemist's Club, an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society, a Merit Award from the NIH, the Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award of the American Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products, and was elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.

Bill received the Bachelors Degree in Chemistry, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1974, and a Ph. D. Degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1977 under the direction of Professor R. B. Woodward and spent an additional year as a postdoctoral associate in Woodward's laboratory.