Eckerd College News: Chemistry Professor Developing on Antiviral Medication

New Eckerd College chemistry professor  Jeff Romine helped develop groundbreaking antiviral medication Growing up in Chicago, he had braved cold winds and then snow and ice while living in Connecticut—going on to earn a Ph.D. as a synthetic organic chemist at The Ohio State University. Next, he spent more than a quarter-century working at Bristol Myers Squibb’s laboratory in Wallingford, Connecticut, where he climbed the ranks to become a senior principal scientist. He was part of the team that developed daclatasvir, a groundbreaking antiviral medication used to treat hepatitis C. “That was probably the greatest experience of my career,” he says. “Within a year there were more than 60 patents filed by other companies, all trying to follow up on our compound. This was unheard of, but it showed we were working in an exciting area of research. From there, he went on to teach chemistry for four and a half years at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and then for a short layover at Fresno Pacific University filling in for a professor on leave. He has over 60 publications and patents of his own to show for his career so far—predominantly in the areas of virology, neuroscience, and cardiovascular disease.
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