Bertram Fraser-Reid
| Bertram Fraser-Reid | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bertram Oliver Fraser-Reid 23 February 1934 Coleyville, Jamaica |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | Canada and Jamaica |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo, University of Maryland, Duke University |
| Alma mater | Queen's University, University of Alberta |
| Doctoral advisor | Raymond Lemieux |
| Known for | Chiral syntheses using carbohydrates, role of oligosaccharides in immune response |
| Notable awards |
Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award, Chemical Institute of Canada (1977) Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1990) Jamaican National Foundation Award (1990) Percy Julian Award, National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (1991) Haworth Memorial Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry (1995) Gold Musgrave Medal, Institute of Jamaica (2007) |
Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award, Chemical Institute of Canada (1977)
Bertram Oliver "Bert" Fraser-Reid (born 23 February 1934) is a Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who has been widely recognised for his work using carbohydrates as starting materials for chiral materials and on the role of oligosaccharides in immune response.
Fraser-Reid was born in Coleyville, Jamaica and attended Excelsior School and Clarendon College before moving to Canada in 1956. He completed his BSc (1959) and MSc (1961) at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario then went to University of Alberta to earn a PhD in 1964 under the supervision of Raymond Lemieux. He went to Imperial College, in London, to do postdoctoral work for Nobel Laureate Sir Derek Barton from 1964–1966.
From 1966 to 1980 Fraser-Reid was on the faculty of the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario where he established a research group known as "Fraser-Reid's Rowdies". The primary emphasis of his work at this point was the synthesis of chiral natural products using carbohydrates as the starting materials. In 1980 he moved to the University of Maryland, College Park before finally relocating to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1982. In 1985 he became the James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry. While at Duke University his research efforts turned to exploring the role of oligosaccharides in immune responses, and particularly on the role these molecules play in human diseases like malaria and AIDS. After his retirement from Duke in 1996, which was linked to an undisclosed harassment claim, he established the non-profit Natural Products & Glycotechnology Research Institute Inc. to study the carbohydrate chemistry/biology of tropical parasitic diseases in Third World countries with one goal being to develop a carbohydrate-based malaria vaccine. Fraser-Reid and collaborators at this institute recently achieved a milestone in oligosaccharide synthesis by assembling a molecule consisting of 28 monosaccharide units.
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