Peter J. Dunn Awards Past Recipients

  • 2024 - GSK was awarded for “Development of a More Sustainable 2nd Generation Route to Peptide-Maleimidocaproyl MonoMethyl Auristatin F (mcMMAF)-the Cytotoxic Payload for Blenrep®, A Novel Antibody Conjugate Drug (ACD) for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma”
  • 2024 - Boehringer Ingelheim was awarded for “Development of a short and eco-friendly asymmetric manufacturing process for Spiroketone CD 7659”
  • 2023 - Michael Smith, Tichen Tan, Candice Joe, David George, Michael Dummeldinger, Harshkumar Patel, Richard Fox, Shane McKenna, Briston-Myers Squibb, New Brunswick, NJ, and collaborators Zara Seibel, Stephan Jenne, Codexis, Redwood City, CA.
    “Sustainable Manufacturing of BMS-986278 Leveraging an ERED/KRED Biocatalytic Cascade”
    Media: Nexus BlogACS Webinar
  • 2023 - John McIntosh, Chihui An, Jeffrey C. Moore, Matthew S. Winston, Jennifer V. Obligacion, Nastaran Salehi Marzijarani, Zhijian Liu, Feng Peng, David J. Lamberto, and Xiaodong Bu, Merck, Rahway NJ.
    “Greener Manufacturing of STING agonist (MK-1454) featuring a Kinase-cGAS enzymatic cascade”
    Media: Nexus BlogACS Webinar
  • 2022 - Karla Camacho Soto, Mike DiMaso, Jacob Forstater, Nadine Kuhl, Reed Larson, Chris Prier, and Ben Turnbull, Merck, Rahway, NJ. 
    "From Wood Pulp to a Candidate Medicine: Green Manufacturing Technologies Enable the Production of Investigational Leukemia Drug Nemtabrutinib from a Biorenewable Commodity Material"
    Media: Nexus BlogACS Webinar
  • 2021 - Stephen Dalby, Francois Levesque, Cecilia Bottecchia & Jonathan McMullen
    Merck & Co., Inc.
    “Greener Manufacturing of Belzutifan (MK-6482) Featuring a Photo-Flow Bromination”
    Media: C&EN articleNexus Blog
  • 2020 - Dan Bailey, Takeda Pharmaceuticals
    “Beyond Organic Solvents: Synthesis of a 5-HT4 receptor agonist in water.”
    Media: ACS WebinarC&EN articleNexus Blog
  • 2019 - B. Frank Gupton, Floyd D. Gottwald Jr. Chair in Pharmaceutical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University
    “Increasing Access to Global Health Care through Process Intensification.”
    Media: C&EN ArticleNexus Blog
  • 2017 - Bruce Lipshutz, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Sachin Handa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Louisville
    “Development of Newly Engineered Catalysts for Sustainable Surfactant Chemistry in Water.”
    Media: C&EN ArticleNexus Blog
  • 2016 - Peter J. Dunn, Global Head of Green Chemistry, Pfizer
    Media: Nexus Blog