Patterson update

well since I don't have much to say about football... the irish look bad, the gophers look bad and both could probably beat the falcons...

I'll introduce myself and give an update:

I was Rich's first postdoc.... also worked with Brad Smith (I think Rich had the left half of me and Brad had the right half).

Since leaving the Taylor/Smith group I've been with two startup companies... the first industrial project lead to a compound that is now in phase 3 clinicals for p. carinii and some of my work at the second led to a compound that is now in phase 2 for HCV.

After leaving the second company (Pharmasset) I joined the faculty at Minnesota where I'm now an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Drug Design. I've been at Minnesota for almost exactly 3 years. My group webpage is

http://www.cdd.umn.edu/cdd/Member_Directory/Steve_Patterson.html


This summer was a bit of a roller coaster ride for me... my father died, I received the appointment as Associate Professor, and my grant for HIV therapeutics was awarded (11%ile).... all in the space of about a week.

Would be nice to hear from Brian, Jeff, Gabe, Kerry, Matt, Mike and the rest of the guys who were there while I was.

Gabe: I see you're at Scynexis... do you know Sarah Dimick-Gray? She's in my group now.

best to all you Taylorites

Rich, I was hoping to get back to South Bend this summer but the stuff with my father made that impossible... hopefully I can stop by again in spring.

Steve
:)X