Feb. 1, 2010 -- Stuart L. Schreiber, Morris Loeb professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, has received the 2009-2010 Wheland Medal from the University of Chicago’s department of chemistry.
 
The medal, awarded every other year in memory of the physical-organic chemist George Wheland, recognizes a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to chemistry. Past recipients include Frank H. Westheimer, Harden M. McConnell, Nelson Leonard, Fred Wudl, Robert L. Baldwin and Robert H. Grubbs.

Schreiber is director of chemical biology and founding member of the Broad Institute of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. He is best known for having developed systematic ways to explore biology, especially disease biology, using small molecules and for his role in the development of the field of chemical biology. He discovered principles that underlie information transfer and storage in cells, specifically discoveries relating to signaling by the phosphatase calcineurin and kinase mTOR, gene regulation by chromatin-modifying histone deacetylases and small-molecule probes of difficult targets and processes that directly relate to human disease.

Visit Stuart L. Schreiber's homepage at Harvard University.