Professor David Gin is slated to receive this year's Horace S. Isbell Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry at the September 2006 American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Francisco. This prestigious distinction acknowledges excellence in and promise of continued quality of contribution to research in carbohydrate chemistry by a young chemist. The award came into existence in 1987 and Dr. Gin is the first University of Illinois, U/C chemistry faculty member to whom it has been awarded.

Professor Gin investigates the chemical synthesis of complex biologically important natural products. He joined the UIUC faculty in 1996 after a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1994.

He has been the recipient of numerous other awards since his arrival at the University of Illinois. They are: Pfizer New Faculty Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Abbott New Faculty Award, Focused Giving Award (Johnson & Johnson), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Glaxo Wellcome Chemistry Scholars Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, Eli Lilly Grantee Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, and Research Innovation Award.