ผู้เขียน: Julie B. Manley

Emily A. Peterson is a Senior Scientist in Medicinal Chemistry at Amgen. Emily received her Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry from University of California–Irvine with Larry E. Overman, accomplishing the total synthesis of biologically interesting alkaloid natural products and their analogues. She then conducted postdoctoral studies in asymmetric organocatalysis at Harvard University in the labs of Eric N. Jacobsen. Her research in Medicinal Chemistry has been primarily in the areas of oncology, schizophrenia and neuropathic pain. In addition to her drug discovery efforts, she has led the Green Chemistry Team at the Amgen Cambridge Site since 2009 and is a member of the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute Medicinal Chemistry Round Table.