Dr. Bodor, an internationally recognized leader in drug discovery, drug design and delivery, has introduced revolutionary, general and comprehensive drug design and drug targeting concepts known as retrometabolic drug design approaches. Dr. Bodor joined the University of Florida as Professor and Chairman of the Medicinal Chemistry Department and was soon promoted to Graduate Research Professor. He established the Center for Drug Discovery at the College of Pharmacy in 1986, serving as its Executive Director. Dr. Bodor took a leave of absence from his academic posts to accept appointments as the IVAX Corporation’s Chief Scientific Officer and Managing Director of the IVAX Drug Research Institute (Budapest) from 2000 – 2005. He founded Bodor Laboratories, Inc. in 2006 in order to further develop his drug design strategies. He has published more than 520 research articles, holds some 250 patents, and is on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. Among his honors, he is an elected Fellow of APS, AAPS, AAAS, and ACCP. Named “The 1984 Florida Scientist of the Year” he received the first AAPS Research Achievement Award in Medicinal and Natural Product Chemistry in 1988, and the APhA Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry in 1989. He was the first Nagai Foundation Tokyo International Fellowship recipient, and received the 1997 AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award. An honorary Doctor of Science degree was conferred upon Dr. Bodor by UF in 2005, and in 2007, he received the AAPS Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award. Dr. Bodor was inducted in to the American Chemical Society’s Hall of Fame, Medicinal Chemistry Division, in August 2012. Recognitions by his home country of Hungary for his scientific achievements include an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Budapest, as well as the Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Medical University of Debrecen. Elected to the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences in 1995, Dr. Bodor was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2004. In 2010, he received the Fabinyi Prize of the Hungarian Chemical Society and in that same year, was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. Dr. Bodor received his B.S./M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry at Bolyai University in Transylvania, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Babes-Bolyai, Cluj and the Romanian National Academy of Sciences.
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