CCL: 2010 Herman Skolnik Award Winner Announced

 Sent to CCL by: "Philip J. McHale" [pmchale[]cambridgesoft.com]
 Anton (Tony) J. Hopfinger, Distinguished Research Professor of Pharmacy,
 University of New Mexico, Professor Emeritus of Medicinal Chemistry and
 Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois, and co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
 of The Chem21 Group, Inc. is the recipient of the 2010 Herman Skolnik Award
 presented by the ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF). The award
 recognizes outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and
 practice of chemical information science and related disciplines. The prize
 consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a plaque.
 Tony Hopfinger is recognized as a pioneer and major contributor in the fields of
 quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) and quantitative structure
 property relationship (QSPR) techniques employing three and higher dimensional
 levels of information derived from modeling and simulation. Tony has addressed
 chemical information and modeling problems in the pharmaceutical, polymer and
 materials sciences, in both industry and academia, and he is generally
 acknowledged as having fathered the development of QSPR modeling in polymer and
 materials science, including coining the acronym QSPR. The breadth of his
 interests and the applicability of the techniques he has developed are reflected
 in the topics covered in some of his recent papers, including drug discovery,
 ADME-Tox property prediction, nanotoxicity, cheminformatic descriptors and
 molecular similarity analysis.
 Tony has made many contributions to the field of cheminformatics through
 publication, teaching, mentoring, advising and organizing. He has authored or
 co-authored more than 270 peer-reviewed (and highly cited) papers and delivered
 almost 360 invited lectures. He has served on many journal editorial boards and
 has been an associate editor the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
 (previously Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science) for the past
 16 years. He has been a member of government and industrial advisory boards, and
 he chaired a Gordon Research Conference on Quantitative Structure
 Activity-Relationships in Biology. He has coordinated and taught at short
 courses in North and South America and Europe; more than 50 computational
 scientists earned their Ph.D. degrees under Tonys mentoring; and he has also
 provided advanced training to more than 70 postdoctoral students.
 Tony Hopfinger received a B.S. in Math and Physics from the University of
 Wisconsin in 1966, and a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from Case Western
 Reserve University in 1969. He started his career in 1969 as an NIH Postdoctoral
 Fellow, Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, and from
 there moved to Case Western Reserve University in 1970 as Assistant Professor of
 Macromolecular Science. He held increasingly senior positions at Case Western,
 eventually becoming Professor of Macromolecular Science in 1978 and Director,
 Research Computing Laboratory in 1979. In 1981 he moved from academia to
 industry, joining G.D. Searle (now part of Pfizer) as Director, Department of
 Drug Design, and later Director, Department of Medicinal Chemistry. Tony
 maintained links with academia, holding several adjunct and visiting
 professorships, and in his spare time founded, or co-founded, a number of
 software and pharmaceutical companies including Intersoft, ChemLab, Receptor
 Laboratories and DNACodes. He returned to academia in 1985 and was Professor of
 Bioengineering, Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Illinois at
 Chicago until 2005. Since then he divides his time as Distinguished Research
 Professor of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Chief Science Officer of The
 Chem21 Group, Inc.  and Professor Emeritus of Medicinal Chemistry and
 Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois.
 Tony Hopfinger is highly respected by all of his colleagues worldwide and this
 Award is a well-deserved recognition of the outstanding career of an unstinting
 and generous pioneer and practitioner of cheminformatics.
 Phil McHale
 Chair, CINF Awards Committee
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