Victor J. Hruby
University of Arizona USA
Biography
Regents Professor Victor J. Hruby received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and did his Postdoctoral Studies at Cornell University Medical Center with Nobel Laureate Vincent du Vigneaud. Currently, he is a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona with appointments in four other departments and programs. He has over 1,200 publications, serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and has been a member of several NIH Study Sections. Dr. Hruby’s major research interests are in the chemical biology, conformation-bioactivity relationships, drug design, molecular mechanisms of information transduction of peptide hormones and neurotransmitters and their ligands that modulate health and disease. He has won numerous awards for his accomplishments including most recently the ACS Ralph F. Hirschmann Award, the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and the APS Murray Goodman Award.