Laurence H. Hurley
LAURENCE H. HURLEY, Howard J. Schaeffer Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, was born in 1944 in Birmingham, England. He received his B.Pharm. (Honors) in 1967 from Bath University and his Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry) in 1970 from Purdue University.
Dr. Hurley's present research interests are in the areas of design and development of antitumor agents. Over the last twenty years, work from his laboratory has led to elucidation of the structures of the drug-receptor complexes for seven different groups of compounds that are potentially useful in the treatment of cancer. In cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry, several drugs developed with the aid of these studies have been evaluated in phase I and II clinical trials.
He is the recipient of a number of international awards. Most recently, in 2005 he was awarded the George & Christine Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy by the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2007 he was inducted into the American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. Also in 2007, he was named Innovator of the Year by the University of Arizona. In 2008 he was awarded the Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.