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Biology and Biochemistry

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189
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2003 - Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
  • 1998 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1993 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter G. Schultz is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, notably within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The main fields of study covered include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology with 73 publications, and medicine with 39 publications. Subfields include molecular biology, infectious diseases, genetics, cell biology, and immunology.

Their work addresses several specialized topics including RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, CRISPR and genetic engineering, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, computational drug discovery methods, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their publications are Arnab K. Chatterjee, Michael J. Bollong, Sean B. Joseph, Ashley K. Woods, and Case W. McNamara.

Their research has been published extensively in several key venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter G. Schultz include:

  • Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drugs through large-scale compound repurposing, 2020, Nature
  • Antitumor activity of a systemic STING-activating non-nucleotide cGAMP mimetic, 2020, Science
  • Drug repurposing screens identify chemical entities for the development of COVID-19 interventions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A Large-scale Drug Repositioning Survey for SARS-CoV-2 Antivirals, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • 2-Sulfonylpyridines as Tunable, Cysteine-Reactive Electrophiles, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Peter G. Schultz has received multiple awards throughout their career, including the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry from Elsevier in 2019, Fellowship at the National Academy of Inventors in 2015, and Fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013. Earlier recognitions include the Arthur C. Cope Award and the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, awarded in 2006 and 1990 respectively. They are also a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1998 and the National Academy of Sciences since 1993, as well as a fellow of multiple scientific organizations such as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Organization of 'nanocrystal molecules' using DNA

    A. Paul Alivisatos;A. Paul Alivisatos;Kai P. Johnsson;Xiaogang Peng;Xiaogang Peng;Troy E. Wilson

  • Metabolomics analysis reveals large effects of gut microflora on mammalian blood metabolites

    William R. Wikoff;Andrew T. Anfora;Jun Liu;Peter G. Schultz

  • Coordinated transcription of key pathways in the mouse by the circadian clock.

    Satchidananda Panda;Marina P. Antoch;Brooke H. Miller;Andrew I. Su;Andrew I. Su

  • Expanding the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli

    Lei Wang;Ansgar Brock;Brad Herberich;Peter G. Schultz;Peter G. Schultz

  • Adding New Chemistries to the Genetic Code

    Chang C. Liu;Peter G. Schultz

  • Large-scale analysis of the human and mouse transcriptomes

    Andrew I. Su;Michael P. Cooke;Keith A. Ching;Yaron Hakak

  • A general method for site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins.

    Christopher J. Noren;Spencer J. Anthony-Cahill;Michael C. Griffith;Peter G. Schultz

  • A combinatorial approach to materials discovery.

    X. D. Xiang;Xiaodong Sun;Gabriel Briceño;Yulin Lou

  • Noxious compounds activate TRPA1 ion channels through covalent modification of cysteines

    Lindsey J. Macpherson;Adrienne E. Dubin;Michael J. Evans;Felix Marr;Felix Marr

  • A chemical switch for inhibitor-sensitive alleles of any protein kinase

    Anthony C. Bishop;Jeffrey A. Ubersax;Dejah T. Petsch;Dina P. Matheos

  • Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Antagonists Promote the Expansion of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

    Anthony E. Boitano;Jian Wang;Russell Romeo;Laure C. Bouchez

  • Genomic analysis of the host response to hepatitis C virus infection.

    Andrew I. Su;John P. Pezacki;Lisa Wodicka;Amy D. Brideau

  • Addition of p-Azido-l-phenylalanine to the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli

    Jason W. Chin;Stephen W. Santoro;Andrew B. Martin;David S. King

  • Exploiting chemical libraries, structure, and genomics in the search for kinase inhibitors.

    Nathanael S. Gray;Lisa Wodicka;Andy-Mark W. H. Thunnissen;Thea C. Norman

  • An Expanded Eukaryotic Genetic Code

    Jason W. Chin;T. Ashton Cropp;J. Christopher Anderson;Mridul Mukherji

  • Expanding the genetic code.

    Lei Wang;Peter G. Schultz

  • Addition of a photocrosslinking amino acid to the genetic code of Escherichia coli

    Jason W. Chin;Andrew B. Martin;David S. King;Lei Wang

  • At the crossroads of chemistry and immunology: Catalytic antibodies

    Richard A. Lerner;Stephen J. Benkovic;Peter G. Schultz

  • DNA‐Based Assembly of Gold Nanocrystals

    Colin J. Loweth;W. Brett Caldwell;Xiaogang Peng;A. Paul Alivisatos

  • Selective chemical catalysis by an antibody.

    Scott J. Pollack;Jeffrey W. Jacobs;Peter G. Schultz

Frequent Co-Authors

Lei Wang
Lei Wang University of California, San Francisco
Jason W. Chin
Jason W. Chin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Nathanael S. Gray
Nathanael S. Gray Stanford University
Sheng Ding
Sheng Ding Tsinghua University
Alexander Deiters
Alexander Deiters University of Pittsburgh
David R. Liu
David R. Liu Broad Institute
Xu Wu
Xu Wu Harvard University
Eric Meggers
Eric Meggers Philipp University of Marburg
Bernard D. Santarsiero
Bernard D. Santarsiero University of Illinois at Chicago

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