Symposium Speaker

Gary Glick

Dr. Gary Glick obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1988, studying organic chemistry under the direction of W. Clark Still.  He then completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University where he studied bio-organic chemistry in the laboratory of Jeremy R. Knowles.  In 1990, Dr. Glick joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he presently holds the Werner E. Bachmann chair in chemistry, is a professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, and is a member of the training faculty for the interdepartmental Immunology and Medicinal Chemistry doctoral programs.  He is also the founding director of the Chemical Biology Doctoral Program at Michigan.  Dr. Glick’s research interests are in drug discovery and development for autoimmune diseases and cancer; chemical-induced apoptosis; nucleic acid structure, folding and recognition; and molecular recognition of nucleic acids by proteins.

Dr. Glick has served and continues to serve on numerous boards and committees, including the Bioorganic & Natural Products Chemistry Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Arthritis Foundation, Michigan Chapter, and is a counselor to the American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry.  Dr. Glick is also the scientific founder of Lycera Corp., a biotechnology company focused on exploiting novel targets and small molecules for the treatment of immune disorders and cancer.  He serves on several editorial boards and is Editor-in-Chief of Biopolymers, a leading biochemical journal.

Dr. Glick’s scientific contributions have been recognized with a number of different awards including, an Arthritis Investigator Award from the National Arthritis Foundation, a Junior Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society, a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a Research Excellence Award from the University of Michigan, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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