Seble Wagaw Explained

Seble-Hiwot Wagaw is an American organic chemist who is a senior leader at AbbVie pharmaceuticals outside Chicago, IL.[1]

Background and Education

Wagaw was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and emigrated to the United States in 1974.[2] Her father, Teshome Gebremichael Wagaw, was a faculty member at the University of Michigan for 28 years, and her mother is Tsehai Wolde-Tsadik.[3] She is one of three children, with an older brother and sister.[4] She received her Bachelor's and MS degrees in Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1994, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Stephen L. Buchwald at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999.[5] Her research in the Buchwald lab utilized chiral complexes of Palladium to forge new carbon-nitrogen bonds on Aryl rings.[6]

Career

As a Senior Director for process research and R&D at Abbott Laboratories (later AbbVie) for her entire career, Wagaw has published research on enantiomerically enriched lead molecules using Pybox ligands.[7] She has led exploration into new technologies for her process group, including explorations of flow chemistry and commercial-scale electrochemistry.[8]

She is on the advisory board for Asymchem and co-founded the Cross-industry Women's chemical process group.

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Myers . Brian . 2023-03-06 . Seble H. Wagaw's 2022 NOS Lecture is Available On-Line . 2023-08-23 . ACS Division of Organic Chemistry . en-US.
  2. Web site: Events U-M LSA Chemistry. 2022-01-25. lsa.umich.edu. en.
  3. Web site: Teshome G. Wagaw Obituary (1930 - 2019) Ann Arbor News. 2022-01-25. Legacy.com.
  4. Web site: Seble-Hiwot Wagaw Ann Arbor District Library. 2020-07-09. aadl.org.
  5. Web site: Asymchem Laboratories(Tianjin) Co., Ltd.. 2020-07-09. www.asymchem.com.
  6. Web site: Events U-M LSA Chemistry. 2020-07-09. lsa.umich.edu. en.
  7. Barnes. David M.. Ji. Jianguo. Fickes. Michael G.. Fitzgerald. Michael A.. King. Steven A.. Morton. Howard E.. Plagge. Frederick A.. Preskill. Margo. Wagaw. Seble H.. Wittenberger. Steven J.. Zhang. Ji. 2002-11-01. Development of a Catalytic Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of 1,3-Dicarbonyl Compounds to Nitroalkenes for the Synthesis of Endothelin-A Antagonist ABT-546. Scope, Mechanism, and Further Application to the Synthesis of the Antidepressant Rolipram. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124. 44. 13097–13105. 10.1021/ja026788y. 12405837. 0002-7863.
  8. Web site: Amping up the pharma lab: Drug companies explore the potential of electrochemistry. 2020-07-09. Chemical & Engineering News. en.
  9. Web site: 1995 Ford Foundation Fellowships. 2020-07-09. www8.nationalacademies.org. en.
  10. Book: Science Spectrum. September–October 2004 . Career Communications Group. en.
  11. Web site: WCC Names Rising Stars Chemical & Engineering News. 2020-07-09. cen.acs.org.

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