Sheila Hobbs DeWitt
Personal Information
Born: 1960
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: White
Education
Cornell University BA Chemistry 1982; Duke University PhD Synthetic Organic Chemistry 1986
Professional Life
Field of Study: Entrepreneur; chemist
Institution/Corporation: Parke-Davis (now Pfizer); Cornell University
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Cornell Alumni Admissions-Ambassador Network (CAAAN), American Association for the Advancement of Science, NY Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society, Association for Laboratory Automation (Science Committee), Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi
Awards & Achievements
Awards: Michigan Leading Edge Technologies Award; 1994, SCITEL-The Netherlands Organization Award; 1995, Pioneer in Laboratory Robotics, Zymark
Achievements: Since 2010, has founded 3 deuterated drug companies; founded &/or led the startup or turnaround of 9 biotech companies; her companies and research focuses on chirality in drugs & deuterium-enabled chiral switching; invented equipment to enable multiple parallel reactions for pharmaceutical research & used robots in the lab while at Parke-Davis
1st generation high school graduate
Whike at Park-Davis, used robots in her lab
Has founded 4 pharmaceutical companies Researches chirality in drugs to improve the therapeutic benefits & reduce side-effects
Became interested in the business side of scientific research after a friend asked her for help in developing a business model & eventually asked her to run the company
Holds 31 patents