Alexander Sherwood

About

"The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king." — Johann Joachim Becher, Physica subterranea (1667)

Experience

• Medicinal Chemist at USONA INSTITUTE INC
  Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

• Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Kansas
  Jul 2014 - Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  Natural product total synthesis and semisynthesis approaches with application toward understanding the kappa opioid receptor.

• Senior Chemist at University of Kansas Chemical Methodology & Library Design Center
  Jul 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

  Scale-up and resupply of compounds from the CMLD national repository for lead follow-up and pharmacology.

• Adjunct Assistant Professor - Chemistry at Johnson County Community College
  Aug 2015 - Jun 2016 · 11 mos

• Instrumentation Manager at University of New Orleans Department of Chemistry
  Aug 2012 - May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

  NMR and FT-MS systems manager, including maintenance of four superconducting magnets and troubleshooting Varian Unity and Inova NMR systems