Debbie C. Crans
Debbie Catharina Crans | |
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Debbie Crans after receiving her 2015 Cope Scholar Award | |
| Born | August 13, 1955 |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University (Ph.D. 1985) University of Copenhagen (B.S. 1978) |
| Thesis | Methodology in Enzyme-Catalyzed Organic Synthesis: Glycerol Kinase Catalyzed Phosphorylations (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | George M. Whitesides |
| Other advisors | James P. Snyder, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Orville L. Chapman, Paul D. Boyer |
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Debbie C. Crans is a Professor of Organic, Inorganic and Biological Chemistry and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University, where she also is a Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences. Crans specializes in the fundamental chemistry and biochemistry of drugs, with particular focus on vanadium and other transition metal ions as metals in medicine and investigation of their mechanisms of toxicity.