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Stephen J. Benkovic

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American chemist

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Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology. He holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. He has developed boron compounds that are active pharmacophores against a variety of diseases.

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2021Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2011NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
2010Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
2009National Medal of Science
2009Benjamin Franklin Medal
2006Centenary Prize
2005Nakanishi Prize
1977Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

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Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology. He holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. He has developed boron compounds that are active pharmacophores against a variety of diseases. Benkovic has concentrated on the assembly and kinetic attributes of the enzymatic machinery that performs DNA replication, DNA repair, and purine biosynthesis.

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Born 1938 · age 88
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