Primary Job Title Scripps Professor of Chemistry Primary Organization 
The Scripps Research Institute
Gender Male
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Peter Schultz Pete is the Scripps Professor of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute. He did undergraduate and graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, where his work resulted in the first synthetic molecules (polypyrroleamides) that sequence-selectively cleave DNA. In 1985, after postdoctoral studies at MIT, he joined the
faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Pete joined the faculty of Scripps in 1999 and was a founding director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) from 1999 to 2010 and more recently (2012) the California Institute for Biomedical Research (CALIBR), a not-for-profit institute focused on early stage translational research.
In addition, he is a founder of Affymax Research Institute, Syrrx, Kalypsys, Phenomix, Symyx Therapeutics, Ilypsa, Ambrx, Ardelyx and Wildcat Technologies, pioneers in the application of diversity based approaches to problems in chemistry, materials science and medicine. Pete has over 500 scientific publications.
His awards include the Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation, membership in the National Academy of Sciences and National Institute of Medicine, the 1994 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the 2003 Paul Ehrlich Prize, and the 2005 Arthur C. Cope Award of the American Chemical Society.
