Dale Lester Boger is an American medicinal and organic chemist and former chair of the Department of Chemistry[1] at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.
Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Following graduate school, he joined the faculty at the University of Kansas where he became assistant/associate professor of medicinal chemistry (1979–1985).
He is Richard and Alice Cramer Professor of Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology[2] at The Scripps Research Institute.
Dale Boger has received numerous awards and honors including: