Dr. Jonathan Sessler

Biography

Jonathan L. Sessler is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He was born in Urbana, Illinois, and received his Bachelor of Science degree with the highest honors in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University in 1982, under the supervision of Professor James P. Collman. Following his graduate studies, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Jean-Marie Lehn at the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg, France, and as a visiting scientist in Professor Tabushi's group in Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Sessler began his career at the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in 1984, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1989, and became a Full Professor in 1992. He has authored or co-authored 225 research publications and has an extensive record of 60 issued or allowed U.S. patents. A co-founder of Pharmacyclics, Inc., a company dedicated to developing biomedical applications of expanded porphyrins, he has received numerous awards in recognition of his teaching and research contributions, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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