Donald B. Boyd

Donald B. Boyd is a Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Indiana University's School of Science. He holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University (1963), A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1965, 1968), and completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cornell University (1967-68). His research explores relationships between molecular structure and properties, with emphasis on computer-aided drug design for pharmaceutical applications.

Professor Boyd pioneered computational chemistry initiatives including co-founding the Gordon Research Conferences on Computational Chemistry and serving as editor for 18 volumes of Reviews in Computational Chemistry. He maintains extensive industry collaborations, having spent 25 years at Eli Lilly as a Senior Research Scientist where he co-invented 6 patents. His current research group includes 11 doctoral students working on computational methods for drug discovery.

• Awards: Spirit of Philanthropy Award (IUPUI, 1996)