Professor Scott Gilbertson is the M.D. Anderson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His group's work is at the interface of chemistry and biology, developing methods for the synthesis of small molecules to facilitate their screening for biological activity. The group also performs the total synthesis of biologically important natural products. Many of these projects are carried out in collaboration with biomedical researchers to design and synthesize molecules active in a number of therapeutic areas including, addiction, infectious disease and cancer. In this effort, he has collaborations with researchers at a number of institutions in the Texas Medical Center, including Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Children’s Hospital and University of Texas Medical Branch. Professor Gilbertson was born in a small town in west central Wisconsin after a B.S. degree from UW LaCrosse and a M.S. degree from the University of Michigan, he graduated from the University of Chicago with his Ph.D. When he isn't focused on chemistry, he enjoy watching sports, in particular Liverpool FC and the Green Bay Packers. He also loves to snow ski with his family. You will likely see him walking his family's English Mastiffs (Phoebe and Rumor) on campus.

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