Charles Lerman
Visiting Professor of Chemistry
Biography
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry, U. of Pennsylvania, 1979-80. Supervisor: Mildred Cohn.
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Harvard U., 1974. Supervisor: Frank H. Westheimer.
B.S., Chemistry, Yale U., 1969.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. Assistant Professor of Chemistry 1976-81. Visiting Professor of Chemistry, 2010-.
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa. Assistant Professor of Chemistry 1974-76.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Graduate Teaching Fellow, 1969-74.
Teaching: pre-organic, organic, physical, and biological chemistry.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Delaware, 1981-2008. NMR Spectroscopy, physical-organic chemistry, computational chemistry.
OTHER INTERESTS
Whitewater kayaking, canoeing, rugby. Formed and coached Haverford Rugby Club in 1976.
Research
Bio-organic chemistry: enzyme mechanisms and model systems, physical studies of protein structure, photoaffinity labeling.
Computational chemistry: modeling of small molecules and proteins; algorithms and software for pattern recognition in large data sets, computer-assisted drug design.
Courses: Spring 2014, Haverford
Chemistry
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