Martin Burke

Martin Burke, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his research interests are in organic chemistry with a focus on the synthesis and study of small molecules with protein-like functions. Marty is the recipient of a number of honors and awards, including the Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, the Thieme IUPAC Prize in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the IOCF lectureship award, the Hirata Memorial Gold Medal from Japan, the Early Career Scientist Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer, the American Chemical Society Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis by a Young Investigator, the American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the UIUC Innovation Discovery Award, the Novartis Chemistry Lectureship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, the Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Research Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the Eli Lilly Grantee Award, the Amgen Young Investigator Award, the AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award, and he has been named “one of the world’s 35 top innovators under age 35” by Technology Review. He has also been recognized multiple times as a “Teacher Ranked as Excellent” by the UIUC Center for Teaching Excellence.

Marty received his medical degree and PhD from the interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Technology Program at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University.