James K. Bashkin
University of Missouri-Saint Louis, Unites States
Biography
James Bashkin, D.Phil. was born in Iowa City, Iowa. He started as a Biology student at the University of Arizona and graduated from the University of Calfornia-Irvine with a Chemistry degree in 1977, whereupon he enrolled in the doctoral program at the University of Oxford, U.K. In 1982, he completed his studies in organometallic chemistry under Malcolm L.H. Green and joined the lab of R. H. Holm at Harvard University for postdoctoral and NIH postdoctoral work on bioinorganic chemistry. In 1985, he joined Monsanto Corporate research where he published a variety of papers ranging from RNA chemistry to commodity organic synthesis and received several awards for green chemistry. In 1991, he joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis and in 1999 he returned to Monsanto. After the transitions to Pharmacia and Pfizer, he co-founded the antiviral company NanoVir, LLC with virologist Chris Fisher and began work at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In 2011, he was appointed full professor and in 2022 received the St. Louis Award from the local section of the American Chemical Society. He published 80 papers and has 16 issued U.S. patents.