Bruce Roth

Bruce Roth, is best known for inventing Lipitor®. Dr. Roth was previously Senior Vice President of Research and Early Development of Small Molecule Drug Discovery at Genentech, and Vice President of Chemistry at the Pfizer Global Research and Development Ann Arbor site. He has received numerous awards including the 2013 Perkin Medal, the highest award given to industrial chemists in the United States, and was named a Hero of Chemistry in 2008 by the American Chemical Society. In 2013, he was inducted into the ACS Medicinal Chemistry Division Hall of Fame, and in 2015 received the National Academy of Sciences Award for Chemistry in Service of Society. Dr. Roth is the inventor or co-inventor of 54 issued U.S. patents and the author or co-author of 51 manuscripts, 35 published abstracts, and 9 book chapters and reviews articles.