Alanna Schepartz
| Alanna Schepartz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 9, 1962 New York City, New York, United States |
| Residence | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Chemical Biology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Alma mater |
State University of New York Albany Columbia University California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Ronald Breslow |
| Other academic advisors | Peter Dervan |
| Known for | Creative application of chemical principles to understand and control biological recognition and function |
| Notable awards | Wheland Medal, University of Chicago (2015) A.C.S. Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry (2012) Frank H. Westheimer Prize Medal, Harvard University (2008) Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award, Iota Sigma Pi (2002) Dylan Hixon '88 Award for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences (1999) |
Alanna Schepartz (born January 9, 1962) is an American professor and scientist. She is currently Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University with a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.
Alanna Schepartz was born on January 9, 1962 in New York City and was raised in Rego Park, Queens. She graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1978. After earned a B.S degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York, Albany and a Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from Columbia University, where she worked under the supervision of Ronald Breslow. Following an N.I.H. postdoctoral fellowship with Peter Dervan at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty at Yale University in July 1988.
Schepartz joined the faculty at Yale University in July 1988. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992, to Full Professor with tenure in 1995, and was named the Milton Harris, '29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry in 2000. In 2001, she was named a Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental biology. From 2002-2007, she held a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship. In 2017, she was named a Sterling Professor, Yale's highest honor. Schepartz is the first woman to be granted tenure in Yale's Department of Chemistry, and the first female full Professor in any physical sciences department at Yale.
The Schepartz laboratory is known for the creative application of chemical principles to understand and control biological recognition and function. Her research has guided thinking in multiple areas of chemical biology, including the understanding of how specificity is achieved during protein-DNA and protein-protein recognition processes; how to design molecules that function as inhibitors of protein-protein interactions; and the development of β-peptides as protein ligands and as building blocks of protein-like architectures. The development of β-peptide bundles was cited by Chemical and Engineering News, a weekly news magazine of the chemical world, as one of 2007's “most important research advances”.
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