Marty Burke will receive the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry award

Marty Burke will receive the 2009 AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry award. The Excellence in Chemistry Award is presented to two talented academic researchers who have demonstrated distinct potential in synthetic, mechanistic, or bioorganic chemistry. Awardees are selected by a team of AstraZeneca senior scientists, in consultation with world-leading academic scientists. Recipients are presented with a $50,000 unrestricted research grant intended to help foster continued growth and development of their research programs. Past awardees include many researchers who have gone on to become leaders in the scientific community. The 2008 Awardees were our colleague Christina White and Richmond Sarpong of UC-Berkeley.