and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.
[1] Alanna Schepartz was born on January 9, 1962, in New York City and was raised in Rego Park, Queens.
postdoctoral fellowship with Peter Dervan at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the faculty at Yale University in July 1988.
Her laboratory is well known for the creative application of chemical principles to understand and control biological recognition and function.
Her research has guided thinking in multiple areas of chemical biology, including the understanding of how specificity is achieved during protein-DNA and protein-protein recognition processes; how to design molecules ("miniature proteins") that function as inhibitors of protein-protein interactions; how these molecules can be engineered to reach the cell cytosol intact and with high efficiency; and the development of β-peptides as protein ligands and as building blocks of protein-like architectures.
In 1993, she earned a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and in 1994 received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.
[11] Since 2005, she had served as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and in 2016 was appointed as editor-in-chief of Biochemistry.