Tadhg Begley

Distinguished Professor Tadhg Begley is Robert A. Welch Foundation Chair and Derek Barton Professor in Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He is currently on sabbatical as Newton Abraham Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Professor Begley's research is focused on the mechanistic enzymology of complex organic transformations, particularly those found on the vitamin biosynthetic pathways. He also has a strong interest in the development of chemical biology and has helped organize several...See more

Distinguished Professor Tadhg Begley is Robert A. Welch Foundation Chair and Derek Barton Professor in Chemistry at Texas A&M University. He is currently on sabbatical as Newton Abraham Visiting Professor at Oxford University. Professor Begley's research is focused on the mechanistic enzymology of complex organic transformations, particularly those found on the vitamin biosynthetic pathways. He also has a strong interest in the development of chemical biology and has helped organize several major conferences and is the co-organizer of the NIH sponsored Young faculty mentoring workshop. He is the recipient of the Merck Faculty Development Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and the ACS Repligen Award in Chemistry of Biological Processes for outstanding contributions to the understanding of biological processes with particular emphasis on structure, function and mechanism. He is co-author of The Organic Chemistry of Biological Pathways (2005) and the editor of Wiley's 4-volume Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, as well as a section editor for the previous editor of Comprehensive Natural Products in 2010. Professor Begley is a member of the editorial boards for Molecular Biosystems, Vitamins and Hormones, Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Drug Design and Journal of Biological Chemistry. He has an h-index of 49. See less