John F. Honek
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
phone: 1-519-888-4567 x35817
email: jhonek@uwaterloo.ca
office: ESC 246 (inside my lab ESC 244A)
Academic career (since first academic degree)
2024-2025
Board of Directors, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
2017-2020
Cross-appointed to the School of Pharmacy, UW
2014
Canadian Society for Chemistry Bernard Belleau Award
2014-present
Associate Member, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Division, Synthesis Subcommittee, IUPAC
2013-Present
Review Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry: Chemical Biology
2013-2016
Board of Directors, Centre for Bioengineering & Biotechnology, University of Waterloo
2012-2016
Scientific Advisory Board, Stem Cell & Cancer Research Institute (SCC-RI), McMaster University
2011-2014
Section Editor, BMC Biochemistry (BioMed Central)
2011-2016
Scientific Advisory Committee, Ontario Consortium for Regeneration Inducing Therapeutics (OCRiT)
2009-Present
Associate Editor, Future Medicinal Chemistry (Future Science Group)
2008-2010
Board of Governors, Executive Committee
2007-2014
Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
2007-2010
Senate, Long Range Planning / Honorary Degrees
2006-Present
Editorial Board Member, Current Medicinal Chemistry(Bentham Press)
2004-2011
Editorial Board Member, BMC Biochemistry (BioMed Central)
2004-2011
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Medicinal Chemistry(Bentham Press).
2003-2004
Chair, NSERC Grants Selection Committee for Organic/Inorganic (GSC24) 2001-2003
NSERC Grants Selection Committee Member for Organic/Inorganic (GSC24)
2002-Present
Regional Editor, Letters in Drug Design and Discovery(Bentham Press).
2001-2023
Associate Editor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology (NRC)
2001-2003
Scientific Advisory Board, NewBiotics Inc., San Diego, California, USA
2000-2003
Director, (GWC)2
2000
Professor, Department of Chemistry
1998-2000
Graduate Officer, Department of Chemistry
1992
Associate Professor of Chemistry
1986
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
1985
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA (supervisor: Professor Christopher T. Walsh)
1984
FCAC (Québec) Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA (supervisor: Professor Christopher T. Walsh)
1984
Ph.D. in Chemistry at McGill University, Montreal
(supervisor: Professor Bernard Belleau)
1977
B.Sc. in Honours Chemistry at McGill University, Montreal