Huw Davies is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor and Director
of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University. He is
the founder of The Davies Group at Emory, which researches the development of
novel enantioselective synthetic methods for application in total synthesis and
drug discovery. This work spans the design of chiral catalysts, carbenoid
chemistry, total synthesis of biologically active natural products, and more.
His chiral dirhodium catalysts have been made commercially available and are
used by research groups across the country. Just recently, he won the 2019
Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods from the
American Chemical Society.
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