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William C. K.
Pomerantz received his B.S. in chemistry from Ithaca
College in 2002, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship at ETH, Zurich with
Professors François Diederich and Jack Dunitz. He obtained a Ph.D. in
chemistry under Professors Sam Gellman and Nick Abbott at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and was a postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Anna Mapp at the
University of Michigan. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of
Minnesota in 2012, and was granted tenure in 2018. He is currently a McKnight
Presidential Fellow and Merck Professor Chemistry. His research focuses on the development of
chemical biology and medicinal chemistry approaches for modulating protein-protein
interactions involved in transcriptional complexes. Protein-Observed Fluorine
NMR (PrOF NMR) is one such tool in his lab that is being developed as a new
method for fragment-based ligand discovery (FBLD), and has been applied towards
inhibiting a diverse class of epigenetic protein complexes. His research had
been recognized through several awards including a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Scholar
award, an NSF CAREER award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, and an ICBS Rising Star
in Chemical Biology award Prof. Pomerantz is currently the global council
co-chair for the International Chemical Biology Society, Early Career Board
Member for ACS Med. Chem. Lett, and
councilor for the American Chemical Society. Further details about his research can be
found here: http://pomerantz.chem.umn.edu/
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