Three UW-Madison professors garner American Chemical Society honors

Ronald Raines, Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Biology, and professor of chemistry, was awarded the Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry for revealing that a previously unappreciated force — the n-to-pi* interaction — stabilizes all proteins and helps to create hyper-stable and human-scale synthetic collagens for wound treatment and other applications.

Shannon Stahl, professor of chemistry, was awarded the ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry, along with collaborators Martin Johnson and Joseph Martinelli of Eli Lilly and Company, for efforts to utilize environmentally friendly aerobic oxidations in commercial pharmaceutical development and manufacturing processes.