Lisa Marcaurelle
{{short description|American chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Lisa A. Marcaurelle
| fields = Chemistry
| workplaces = Broad Institute
| alma_mater = College of the Holy Cross (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
| thesis_title = Synthesis of glycoproteins and glycopeptide mimetics
| thesis_url = https://worldcat.org/en/title/892829114
| thesis_year = 2001
| doctoral_advisor = Carolyn R. Bertozzi
}}
Lisa Ann Marcaurelle is an American chemist and a senior executive in multiple biotechnology companies.
Education
Marcaurelle received her B.A. in chemistry from the College of the Holy Cross in 1997 with membership in Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate, she worked with professor Timothy Curran on dipeptide scaffolds. She enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry under Carolyn Bertozzi, working on a variety of new glycoside-linking technologies to produce glycoprotein mimetics for natural substances like mucin.{{Cite journal|last=Marcaurelle|first=L. A.|date=2002-06-01|title=Recent advances in the chemicalsynthesis of mucin-like glycoproteins|journal=Glycobiology|language=en|volume=12|issue=6|pages=69R–77|doi=10.1093/glycob/12.6.69R|issn=1460-2423|doi-access=free}} Marcaurelle completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Peter Seeberger on solid-phase synthesis of oligosaccharides.
Career
Marcaurelle worked at Infinity Pharmaceuticals and the Broad Institute for a combined 9 years, working in high-throughput chemistry, diversity-oriented chemical synthesis, chemical biology, and medicinal chemistry projects. She was recruited as a vice president at H3 Biomedicine in 2011.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} At H3, Marcaurelle instituted and continued to develop a diversity-oriented synthesis platform, based on newly-evolving chemotypes such as spirocycles and macrocycles. In 2016, she became Senior Director of Chemistry at Warp Drive Bio, and in 2018 Vice President of Enko Chem, a venture-backed crop protection start-up in the Boston area.{{Cite web|url=https://www.enkochem.com/|title=Welcome|website=Enko Chem|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-25}} In 2018, she became senior director of the DNA Encoded Library Technology Chemistry group at GlaxoSmithKline in Cambridge, MA.
Marcaurelle remains active in professional society volunteering and mentorship of younger scientists in the pharmaceutical industry, and actively advocates for the inclusion of women scientists in leadership roles.{{Cite news|url=https://cen.acs.org/articles/96/i10/why-cant-the-drug-industry-solve-its-gender-diversity-problem.html|title=Why can't the drug industry solve its gender diversity problem?|access-date=2018-10-25}}
Awards
- 2013 - American Chemical Society WCC "Rising Star" Award{{Cite news|url=http://www.womenchemists.sites.acs.org/Fall_2013%20page%207.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326065525/http://www.womenchemists.sites.acs.org/Fall_2013%20page%207.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2017-03-26|title=WCC Rising Stars Newsletter|last=Chow|first=Christine|date=2013|work=ACS WCC Newsletter|access-date=2018-10-25}}
- 2013 - McElvain Industrial Seminar, University of Wisconsin{{Cite web|url=http://www.chem.wisc.edu/category/vocabulary18/dr-lisa-marcaurelle|title=Dr. Lisa Marcaurelle {{!}} UW-Madison Department of Chemistry|website=www.chem.wisc.edu|language=en-us|access-date=2018-10-25}}
- 2011 - Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator Symposium{{Cite news|url=https://www.organicdivision.org/younginvestigators/|title=Young Investigator's Symposium (YIS) - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry|work=ACS Division of Organic Chemistry|access-date=2018-10-25|language=en-US}}
- 1997 - American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award
References
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