Jonathan Sessler
Jonathan Sessler (born 20 May 1956 in Urbana, Illinois) is a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for his pioneering work on expanded porphyrins and their applications to biology and medicine. He is a co-founder of Pharmacyclics, Inc., a company that works with expanded porphyrins, and Anionics, Inc., which develops anion recognition chemistry. Pharmacyclics was sold to AbbVie for $21 billion in 2015.
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Jonathan L. Sessler | |
| Born | 20 May 1956 Urbana, Illinois |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | MSc at University of California, Berkeley PhD at Stanford University Postdoc at Louis Pasteur University |
| Alma mater | University of California Stanford University |
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| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | James P. Collman |
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