Huw Davies, PhD

Biography

Huw M. L. Davies, PhD, joined the Emory University faculty in 2008 as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Organic Chemistry. He is a member of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to Emory, he held the positions of UB Distinguished Professor and Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

Education

Dr. Davies received his BSc degree from University College in Cardiff, Wales, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. He completed his post-doctoral training at Princeton University.

Titles & Roles

• Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Department of Chemistry

  Emory University
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry

  Emory University

Research

Dr. Davies' research emphasizes the development of new enantioselective synthetic methods and their applications in total synthesis and drug discovery. His program covers design of chiral catalysts, carbenoid chemistry, development of new synthetic methodology, total synthesis of biologically active natural products and development of chiral therapeutic agents. Many research groups have used his chiral dirhodium catalysts and several of them are commercially available.

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Awards

The impact of his carbenoid chemistry was recently recognized as he was chosen to be the recipient of the 2013 eEROS Reagent of the Year Award. Other recent awards Dr. Davies has received include the American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award (2005), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012) and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2014).