Professional Positions

2009- present, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
2001, Visiting Scientist, Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech Inc.
1999, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota
1992, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Education

1989-1992, Damon-Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
1985-1989, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
1979-1985, B.A. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

APS Service

2011-2013, Nominating Committee
2015-2021, Councilor
2017-2021, APS Representative on FASEB Science Policy Council
2022, Co-Chair, American Peptide Symposium

Awards & Honors

1994 American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award
1994 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2004 George W. Taylor/ITAS Award for Distinguished Teaching
2006 Horace T. Morse–University of Minnesota Distinguished Teaching Professor
2006 Pfizer Lectureship, University of Ottawa, Canada
2011 Merck Professor of Chemistry
2011 University of Minnesota Distinguished McKnight Professor
2014 American Chemical Society Fellow
2019 Erskine Fellow, University of Christchurch, New Zealand

Mark Distefano
Councilor
Professor
University of Minnesota