“My experience as a scientist and manager working in a large pharmaceutical company has given me a first-hand view of how chemistry can be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines. When any one of us — or our family members — take those medicines, embedded in those tablets or capsules is the expert knowledge and dedication of a chemist. You can bet on it. It makes me proud.”

 

JOHN LECHLEITER President and Chief Executive Officer, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Ind. He is a 34-year ACS member.

 

“Chemical advances in medicine and materials have already transformed people’s lives, resulting in efficient and effective treatments for previously deadly diseases and fantastic fibers and building materials that increase the quality and decrease the cost of clothing and shelter. In the years ahead, I foresee chemists teaming up with engineers and physicists to introduce zero-impact energy production and to improve recycling and waste remediation, in order to improve our earth and, thus, our lives.”

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“Most advances in our lives can be attributed to chemistry including new materials, food improvements and the advances in drugs. I foresee advances in how we make compounds, how we discover better drugs and how we turn current processes into efficient, green ones.”

 

JUDITH N. CURRANO Chemistry Librarian, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She is a 10-year ACS member.

JOSEPH VACCA

Executive Director, Merck Research Labs, West Point, Pa. He is a 31-year ACS member.

“Chemistry always looks for ways
that might be less expensive, more
efficient, or more environmentally
friendly.Chemistry seems to be a
field that is constantly dissatisfied
with the status quo and always
looks for a better way.”

KATHERINE GLASGOW
Senior Materials Scientist, Nomacorc LLC, Zebulon, N.C.
She is a 12-year ACS member.