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About Cynthia Burrows
- Cynthia J.
- Burrows is an American chemist, currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah, where she is also the Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry.
- Burrows acquired a B.A.
- degree in Chemistry at the University of Colorado (1975).
- There she worked on Stern-Volmer plots in Stanley Cristol’s laboratory during her senior year.
- She continued to study physical organic chemistry at Cornell University, where she received a Ph.D.
- degree in Chemistry in 1982 working in Barry Carpenter’s laboratory.
- Her Ph.D.
- thesis work focused on cyano-substituted allyl vinyl ethers.
- Burrows then conducted a short post-doctoral research stint with Jean-Marie Lehn in Strasbourg, France.
- Burrows was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry (2001-2013) and became Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research in 2014., ,
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