Charles & Nora L. Wiley Award for Meritorious Research, 1999; ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1991; ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 1990; National Cancer Institute Merit Award, 1988; ACS Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Essential Oils and Related Products, 1982; Award of the Akron Section of the ACS, 1982; Member, Medicinal Chemistry Study Section, NIH, 1998-01; Chairman Medicinal Chemistry Study Section, NIH, 1999-01; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow, 1978-79; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1974-76; Eli Lilly Fellow, 1973-75.

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