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The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Robert W. Brueggemeier as Dean of the College of Pharmacy, effective July 1, 2003.
Dr. Brueggemeier received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, in 1972 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in medicinal chemistry from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1975 and 1977, respectively. From 1977 to 1979, He was a postdoctoral research fellow in biological chemistry at the Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. In July 1979, Dr. Brueggemeier began his academic faculty career at The Ohio State University as an assistant professor in medicinal chemistry and jointly held an appointment with the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. Most recently, he served as Professor and Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at The Ohio State University from 1992-2003.
Dr. Brueggemeier’s areas of research specialization are medicinal chemistry, steroid chemistry and biochemistry, and hormones and breast cancer, with an interdisciplinary focus on understanding the molecular role(s) of estrogens in hormone-dependent cancers and in the development of new agents such as aromatase inhibitors for the treatment of hormone-dependent cancers. Along with his teaching and administration duties in the College, Dr. Brueggemeier has concurrently served as the Director, Radiochemistry and Instrumentation Support Laboratories in Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1979 and as Program Director, Hormones and Cancer Program of OSCCC since 1985. On the national level, among other prestigious honors, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 1997and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1999.
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