Curriculum Vitae

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)

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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