About

Gordon W. Gribble is a native of San Francisco, California, and completed his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. He earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Oregon in 1967. After a National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles, he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1968 where has been Full Professor of Chemistry since 1980. He served as Department Chair from 1988-1991. Professional awards include a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award, 1971-76, a National Science Foundation Science Faculty Professional Development Award, 1977-78, and the American Cyanamid Academic Award in 1988. He won the Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997, and in 1998 was awarded the Chemistry Alumni Award by the University of Oregon. In 2005, he was named to the newly endowed Chair as "The Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry," and in 2006 won the Arts and Sciences Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award. Dr. Gribble has published 315 papers in natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, heterocyclic chemistry, natural organohalogen compounds, and synthetic triterpenoids, one of which is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for the treatment of melanoma and pancreatic cancer. Another group of compounds, "DNA Bis-Intercalators", shows promise against the brain tumor glioblastoma in mice. Since 1995 he has co-edited the annual series "Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry", and the 2nd edition of "Palladium in Heterocyclic Chemistry", co-authored with Jack Li, was published last year. Dr. Gribble has had a long-standing interest in organic chemical toxicity, chemical carcinogenesis, chemicals in the environment, and naturally occurring organohalogen compounds, and he has just finished his second monograph on naturally occurring organohalogen compounds. As a home winemaker for the past 30 years, he has a strong interest in the chemistry of wine and winemaking.

Professional Positions

1967-1968 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

1968-1974 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

1974-1980 Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

1977-1978 Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology

1980- Professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

1988-1991 Chair, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

1991-1992 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawaii

1993- Associate Member, Norris Cotton Cancer Center

1994- Scientific Advisor, American Council on Science and Health

1995- Co-Editor, Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

1997- Member, European Science and Environment Forum

1998-2002 Member, American Chemical Society Norris Award Committee

1999-2000 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz

2003- Associate Editor, "Current Organic Chemistry"

2003- Editorial Board Referee Chairman, "Arkivoc"

2006-2007 Research Fellow in Chemistry and Civil War Era Studies, Gettysburg College

Awards

1965-1967 National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship

1967-1968 National Cancer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

1971-1976 National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award

1977-1978 National Science Foundation Professional Development Award

1981 Dartmouth College, Honorary Masters Degree

1984-1985 Dartmouth College, Senior Faculty Fellowship

1988 American Cyanamid Academic Award

1991-1992 Dartmouth College, Senior Faculty Fellowship

1997 Dartmouth College, Distinguished Teaching Award

1998 University of Oregon Chemistry Alumni Achievement Award

1999-2000 Dartmouth College, Senior Faculty Fellowship

2005 Named the first "Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry" at Dartmouth College

2006 Arts and Sciences Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award