Tom G Driver
1999-2004 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
1995-1999 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
Indiana University, Bloomington
Experience
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Professor of Chemistry
2021– current Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018 – current UI Cancer Center, Translational Oncology, Associate Member
2017 – current Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 - current UICentre for Drug Discovery, Core Leader - Chemical Libraries
2012 - 2017 Associate Professor of Chemistry
2006 - 2012 Assistant Professor of Chemistry
2007 - 2010 Faculty in Residence (FIR) for University Housing
2006 - current Faculty fellow for the Honors College
HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY, XIAMEN, P. R. CHINA
2015-2018 Special Invited Professor of Chemistry
Drax Therapeutics, Inc., Carmel, IN
2019 – current co-Founder and Director, President and Treasurer
Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China
2019 – 2019 Overseas Chair (ended 12/31/2019)
Awards
2016 Top-Tier Foreign Expert (People’s Republic of China)
2015 Fujian 100 Talents Plan Designate (People’s Republic of China)
2015 UIC Graduate College Graduate Mentor Award
2014 UIC LAS Award for Faculty in Sciences
Past Education
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2004-2006 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
with John E. Bercaw and Jay A. Labinger
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
1999-2004 Graduate Research Associate
with K. A. Woerpel
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON
Undergraduate Research Assistant
with Lawrence K. Montgomery