William C. K. Pomerantz is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and Merck Professor Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Pomerantz received his B.S. in chemistry from Ithaca College in 2002, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship at ETH, Zürich with Professors François Diederich and Jack Dunitz. He obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry under Professors Sam Gellman and Nick Abbott at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Anna Mapp at the University of Michigan. He joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Minnesota in 2012, was granted tenure in 2018, and promoted to full professor in 2023. His research focuses on the development of chemical biology and medicinal chemistry approaches for modulating transcription factor function through disruption of protein-protein interactions involved in cancer and inflammatory pathways. Several areas of innovation have included the application of protein-observed  19 F NMR (PrOF NMR) for fragment-based drug discovery and development of new epigenetic inhibitors of BET and non-BET bromοdomains, the latter of which regulate important processes of aging. Prof. Pomerantz’s research and teaching had been recognized through several awards including a Sidney Kimmel Cancer Scholar award, an NSF CAREER award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, an ICBS Rising Star in Chemical Biology award, a McKnight Land Grant award, a George W. Taylor Distinguished Teaching award and Morse/Alumni Association Teaching award. At UMN, He is currently the co-director of the NIH T32 Chemistry Biology Interface Training Grant, and was a former WEC liaison for the department of chemistry. He has published over 100 manuscripts and book chapters and has given over 140 seminars on his lab’s research. 

Further details about his research can be found here: http://pomerantz.chem.umn.edu/