Adam Renslo

Adam Renslo was born in 1971 in Tripoli, Libya, and raised in Wisconsin. He received a B.A. degree in Chemistry from Saint Olaf College in 1993 and went on to receive a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998) for work on new cycloaddition methods with Rick Danheiser. After post-doctoral work at the Scripps Research Institute, he accepted a position at Vicuron Pharmaceuticals (then Versicor, Inc.) where he was involved in antibacterial and antifungal drug discovery projects, most recently as Associate Director of Medicinal Chemistry. While at Vicuron, he led a medicinal chemistry team that identified second-generation oxazolidinone antibacterial drug candidates that have progressed into human clinical trials. In 2006 he moved to the University of California, San Francisco where he is currently Co-Director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center and a Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. His research team is currently engaged in anti-trypanosomal drug discovery and the design and implementation of novel prodrug strategies.