John L. Wood

John L. Wood (born December 4, 1961) is a Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Scholar; and Associate Editor for the Americas, Tetrahedron Letters at Baylor University.

Wood received a B.A. degree from the University of Colorado in 1985 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He then moved to Harvard University as an American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow and continued studying natural products synthesis in the laboratories of Stuart Schreiber. He joined the faculty at Yale University in 1993 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1998. In 2006, he joined the faculty at Colorado State University as the Albert I. Meyers Professor of Chemistry.

Awards and honors

Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products 2024 Katritzky Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) 2009 3éme Cycle Lectureship, University of Basel 2009 Distinguished Behringer Simon Lecturer, ETH Zurich 2009 Amgen Faculty Award 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow 2008 American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2004 Yamanouchi USA Faculty Award 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Merck Faculty Award 2000, 2001, 2002 Kitasato Microbial Chemistry Medal 2001 Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Research Award 1998–2001 Pfizer Research Award 1997–2001 Zeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award 1998 Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award 1998 Novartis Chemistry Lectureship 1997–1998 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow 1997 Parke-Davis Distinguished Michigan Lecturer 1997 Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Award 1997 Glaxo-Wellcome Young Chemistry Scholar Award 1996–1998 Eli Lilly Young Faculty Award 1996–1997 NSF CAREER award 1996–2000 Yale University, Junior Faculty Fellowship, 1996–1997 American Cancer Society, Junior Faculty Award 1994 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award 1993 American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991–1993 National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship 1991–1993 (declined) University of Pennsylvania Dean's Dissertation Fellowship 1989–1990 Distinguished Organic Chemistry Teaching Award 1986