TPCB Faculty
Samuel Danishefsky, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Education
PhD, 1962, Harvard University
BS, 1956, Yeshiva University
Awards
Member, National Academy of Science
Research Topics
- Bioactive Small Molecules
- Chemical methodology
- Total synthesis
- Biotechnology
- Protein engineering
Therapeutic Areas
- Cancer
- Immunology
- Microbiology
Prof. Danishefsky is a TPCB Emeritus Faculty member and is no longer accepting graduate students.
The mission of the Danishefsky lab is to contribute new advances to the strategy and methodology of organic synthesis and to bring them to bear toward progress in problems of biological importance. On the whole, our laboratory performs best when projects challenge the existing state of the art of organic chemistry. We immerse ourselves in an atmosphere where challenging and thought-provoking organic chemistry is interfaced with issues of plausible biological and medical applications.