Fillion Synthetic
Organic/Organometallic Research Group
University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Professor Eric Fillion
Ph.D. University of Toronto 1994-97
NSERC PDF (with Larry E. Overman)
University of California, Irvine 1998-2000
Merck Frosst
Centre for Therapeutic Research Award 2011
Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award 2006
AstraZeneca Award in Chemistry 2005
Boehringer-Ingelheim Young Invesigator
Award 2003
Research
Corporation Research Innovation Award 2000
Eric Fillion
received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the Universite
de Sherbrooke. After completing his M. Sc. in
medicinal chemistry at the Université de Montreal
with Professor Denis Gravel, he began his doctoral studies in 1994 at the
University of Toronto under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens.
He was involved in the synthesis of bridged polyoxacyclic
ring systems and studied their sequential ring opening for the preparation of
highly functionalized decalin systems. From
1998-2000, he was an NSERC post-doctoral fellow in the laboratories of
Professor Larry E. Overman at the University of
California, Irvine working on the total synthesis of manzamine
A. In August 2000, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of
Waterloo and initiated a research
program in organometallic chemistry.