Associate Vice Provost, University Outreach and Engagement
Jacquelyn Gervay Hague is Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis.
Jacquelyn Gervay Hague earned B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of California, Los Angeles. She continued her training as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University before beginning her independent career at the University of Arizona. In 2001, Jacquelyn was appointed Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Davis.
Jacquelyn Gervay Hague is a synthetic organic chemist. Her research program focuses on the design and synthesis of chemotherapeutics targeting HIV infection and cancer and serves as a foundation to teach students the drug discovery process. Although the disease states differ, the methods of drug development employed by her research group consistently involve understanding disease processes at a molecular level. This approach has naturally led to studies at the interface of chemistry and biology. In these investigations, the development of new synthetic methods has provided access to compounds that uniquely serve as biological probes to study structure/activity relationships. Development of spectroscopic techniques for solution-phase structure determination, and novel biological assays for testing interactions between small molecules and proteins has also been a focus of her research team’s efforts. More recently, solid phase synthesis of amide-linked carbohydrates has produced novel materials with stable secondary structure in aqueous solution providing a foundation for future investigations in artificial protein engineering.
Jacquelyn Gervay Hague was named an Eli Lilly Grantee in 1997 and was appointed a Sloan Fellow in 1998. In 1999, She was awarded the Horace S. Isbell Prize by the Carbohydrate division of the American Chemical Society, and she was also the recipient of the GenCorp Technology Achievement Award. In 2009, Jacquelyn Gervay Hague became a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society, recognized for excellence in science and contributions to society.