Dinner reservations: Call the section answering line at 558-1224 or email cintacs@uc.edu. Include your name with correct spelling, affiliation, and menu choice. Reservations must be received by Monday, November 2. If you have any difficulties, please call Donna Taylor at 558-0979. As a reminder, if you decide you must miss a meeting after you have made reservations, please call to cancel. If not, the section will have to charge you for the dinner because it will be charged for the dinner.

Directions: If you approach by I-75, take the Hopple Street exit and turn left at the light. You will pass over the highway. At the next light go "straight" (straight here is really about a 45 degree turn to the left). You are now on Martin Luther King Drive. Continue up King to the third traffic light, you will reach the first light rather quickly, the second one about a quarter to half mile after that, and the third after going up a long hill. At the third light, take a right turn onto Clifton Avenue and the University is on your left. Take the first left into campus, you will be on College Court; follow this road directly to the garage

If you approach Cincinnati from I-71S, get off at the Taft Street exit, exit 3. At the light at the end of the exit go straight. It is a rather winding street, but continue "straight" for about 1.3 miles. At this time, Hughes High School is directly in front of you and you must turn; take a right turn onto Clifton Ave. from the far right lane. The University is now on you right side, the University driveway you want is College Court which is about 0.3 miles from the last turn. Follow College Court to the garage at the end.

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Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) received his early education in Boston, Massachusetts (B. S., Boston College, 1967). He began research in physical organic chemistry working with Professor Jerome A. Berson at Yale University. After earning his Ph. D. in 1972, he spent a year at Stanford University as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow (1973). From Stanford University he went to Pasadena, California to take up a faculty appointment at the California Institute of Technology where he is now the Bren Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Peter Dervan has created a new field of bioorganic chemistry with studies directed toward understanding the chemical principles for the sequence specific recognition of the genetic material, DNA. Dervan has combined the art of synthesis, physical chemistry, and biology to create novel synthetic molecules with affinities and sequence specificities comparable to Nature's proteins for any predetermined DNA sequence. This non-biological approach to DNA recognition underpins the design of cell-permeable molecules for the regulation of gene expression in vivo. The approach could have profound implications for human medicine.

Dervan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His awards include the Harrison Howe Award (1988), Arthur C. Cope Award (1993), Willard Gibbs Medal (1993), Maison de la Chimie Foundation Prize (1996), Kirkwood Medal (1998), and the Alfred Bader Award (1999).

Updated 21 October 1998 by cinacs@www.che.uc.edu