UD's Fox receives American Chemical Society Delaware Section Award

11:16 a.m., Feb. 16, 2015--The American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored Joseph M. Fox, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware, with the Delaware Section Award for 2014.

Fox will receive the award, which recognizes “conspicuous scientific achievement and contributions in an area of chemistry or chemical engineering,” at the chapter’s meeting on Feb. 25, from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Double Tree Hotel, 4727 Concord Pike, Wilmington. Also at that meeting, he will present a seminar titled “Fast Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Discovery, Development and Applications.”

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With more than 161,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society. It has 187 local sections, or chapters, throughout the U.S., which help to connect chemists and chemical engineers in a geographic area and contribute to the public’s understanding of chemistry.

An established researcher in the field of organic chemistry, Fox has developed molecular reactivity that is making an impact in chemistry, biology, nuclear medicine, cellular imaging and materials science. 

A member of the UD faculty since 2001, he has built a multidisciplinary program that centers on the development of new types of chemical reactions.

Fox is the principal investigator for a five-year, $11.2 million federal grant that will help UD scientists build a network of biomedical researchers in the region as they work to discover new ways to study cancer and other serious diseases. 

The grant, from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, supports seven junior faculty members working on five research projects that are related by the concept of “molecular discovery to improve human health.’”

The ACS Delaware Section Award was established in 1956. Several UD faculty members have received the prestigious honor over the years, including Richard Heck, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010.