Gregg B. Fields

Gregg B. Fields is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Florida Atlantic University. He was the recipient of an NIH Research Career Development Award from 1994-1999, the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Excellence Award in Peptide Synthesis Research in 1997, and Researcher of the Year Award (Full Professor) at Florida Atlantic University for 2000-2001, and was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London during 2004. Fields has over 180 publications and 6 patents in the fields of extracellular matrix biochemistry and peptide synthesis methodology. His laboratory has been funded by the NIH and the American Cancer Society, and he has been profiled in Today's Life Sciences (1997), Boca Raton Magazine (2003), and Time Magazine (2004). Dr. Fields also serves on many editorial boards such as The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Current Protein and Peptide Science, Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patent, The Journal of Peptide Research, Protein and Peptide Letters, and Letters in Peptide Science.

Research Interests

• Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis Methodology
• Extracellular Matrix Biochemistry
• Synthetic Protein Design and Construction
• Tumor Cell Biology; Biomimetic Biomaterials
• Proteases of the Extracellular Matrix

Professional Awards and Honors

• Researcher of the Yr. Award (Full Professor), Florida Atlantic University, 2000-2001
• Selected as one of the “2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 21st Century,” 2000
• Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Excellence Award in Peptide Synthesis Research, 1997
• Profiled in Today’s Life Sciences 9(1), Jan. 1997, :Tumours and Techniques,” p.36
• Invited Editor, Methods In Enzymology, 1995-1998
• Invited Guest Editor, Peptide Science: Comprehensive Reports & Reviews, 1994-96
• Invited Lecturer, Carlsberg Laboratory, Valby, Denmark, 1994
• National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award, 1994-1999
• McKnight-Land Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 1993-1995

Professional Experience

• Biomedical Engineering Center, University of Minnesota, 1995-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Biomedical
• Engineering Center, University of Minnesota, 1991-1995
• Postdoctoral Scholar with Professor Ken A. Dill, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, 1998-1991

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Gregg B. Fields

Education
Ph.D., Florida State University
B.S., University of Florida
A.A., Broward Community College

Case Numbers
2003-04, 2005-30