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Dr. George Ellestad receives ACS Medicinal Chemistry Award

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 26th, 2006

The American Chemical Society (ACS) honored George Ellestad, PhD, a recently retired veteran of Wyeth Research, a division of Wyeth (WYE), with the 2006 ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Award at the 30th National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Seattle.

Ellestad was honored for his distinguished work in leading a group of scientists in pioneering discoveries about the potent cancer-fighting compound calicheamicin. Allen Reitz, PhD, who submitted the ACS award nomination, referred to the "stunning achievement" of Ellestad's group to unravel the bioreductive activation and DNA cleavage chemistry of calicheamicin which helped pave the way for the development of the...

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