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Stuart L. Schreiber

Stuart L. Schreiber

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2025
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Chemistry
USA
2026

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Best Scientists

D-Index
173
Citations
145346
World Ranking
761
National Ranking
466

Chemistry

D-Index
144
Citations
107202
World Ranking
166
National Ranking
79

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2016 - Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation for pioneering chemical insights into the logic of signal transduction and gene regulation that led to important, new therapeutics and for advancing chemical biology and medicine through the discovery of small-molecule probes.
  • 2014 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2001 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1997 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
  • 1994 - Paul Karrer Gold Medal, University of Zurich
  • 1989 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Best Publications

  • Regulation of Ferroptotic Cancer Cell Death by GPX4

    Wan Seok Yang;Rohitha SriRamaratnam;Matthew E. Welsch;Kenichi Shimada

  • Calcineurin is a common target of cyclophilin-cyclosporin A and FKBP-FK506 complexes

    Jun Liu;Jesse D. Farmer;Willam S. Lane;Jeff Friedman

  • Printing proteins as microarrays for high-throughput function determination.

    Gavin MacBeath;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Target-oriented and diversity-oriented organic synthesis in drug discovery.

    Stuart L. Schreiber

  • A Next Generation Connectivity Map: L1000 Platform and the First 1,000,000 Profiles.

    Aravind Subramanian;Rajiv Narayan;Steven M. Corsello;Steven M. Corsello;David D. Peck

  • A mammalian protein targeted by G1-arresting rapamycin–receptor complex

    Eric J. Brown;Mark W. Albers;Tae Bum Shin;Kazuo ichikawa

  • A mammalian histone deacetylase related to the yeast transcriptional regulator Rpd3p.

    Jack Taunton;Christian A. Hassig;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Chemistry and biology of the immunophilins and their immunosuppressive ligands.

    Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Inhibition of Proteasome Activities and Subunit-Specific Amino-Terminal Threonine Modification by Lactacystin

    Gabriel Fenteany;Robert F. Standaert;William S. Lane;Soongyu Choi

  • A Planning Strategy for Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis

    Martin D. Burke;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Atomic Structures of the Human Immunophilin FKBP-12 Complexes with FK506 and Rapamycin

    Gregory D. Van Duyne;Robert F. Standaert;P.Andrew Karplus;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Retraction Note: Selective killing of cancer cells by a small molecule targeting the stress response to ROS

    Lakshmi Raj;Takao Ide;Aditi U. Gurkar;Michael Foley

  • Structure of the FKBP12-rapamycin complex interacting with the binding domain of human FRAP.

    Jungwon Choi;Jie Chen;Stuart L. Schreiber;Jon Clardy

  • Two binding orientations for peptides to the Src SH3 domain: development of a general model for SH3-ligand interactions.

    Sibo Feng;James K. Chen;Hongtao Yu;Julian A. Simon

  • The promise and peril of chemical probes.

    Cheryl H. Arrowsmith;James E. Audia;Christopher Austin;Jonathan Baell

  • Towards the Optimal Screening Collection: A Synthesis Strategy

    Thomas E. Nielsen;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Inhibition of T cell signaling by immunophilin-ligand complexes correlates with loss of calcineurin phosphatase activity.

    J. Liu;M. W. Albers;T. J. Wandless;S. Luan

  • Identification of a class of small molecule inhibitors of the sirtuin family of NAD-dependent deacetylases by phenotypic screening.

    Christina M. Grozinger;Elizabeth D. Chao;Helen E. Blackwell;Danesh Moazed

  • Printing Small Molecules as Microarrays and Detecting Protein−Ligand Interactions en Masse

    Gavin MacBeath;and Angela N. Koehler;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Acceleration of the Dess-Martin Oxidation by Water

    Stephanie D. Meyer;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Chemical Genetics Resulting from a Passion for Synthetic Organic Chemistry

    Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Small Molecules Efficiently Direct Endodermal Differentiation of Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Malgorzata Borowiak;René Maehr;René Maehr;Shuibing Chen;Shuibing Chen;Alice E. Chen;Alice E. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack Taunton
Jack Taunton University of California, San Francisco
Thomas J. Wandless
Thomas J. Wandless Stanford University
Stephen J. Haggarty
Stephen J. Haggarty Harvard University
John A. Porco
John A. Porco Boston University
Gerald R. Crabtree
Gerald R. Crabtree Stanford University
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Shao-Liang Zheng
Shao-Liang Zheng Harvard University
David M. Spencer
David M. Spencer Baylor College of Medicine
Tarun M. Kapoor
Tarun M. Kapoor Rockefeller University
Deborah T. Hung
Deborah T. Hung Harvard University

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