If I weren't an active scientist, I don't feel I could be an effective teacher. His work with students has been rewarded with two consecutive prestigious grants from The Welch Foundation in Houston. To get funded once means you have a good idea. To be funded again means you've made good progress toward your goal. We're probably not going to cure cancer at Southwestern, but we can help other scientists move closer to that end.
Collaboration is what it's all about.
Guziec grew up in a Polish neighborhood in northwest Chicago and trained in a Catholic Seminary. He completed his undergraduate work in chemistry at Loyola of Chicago in 1968 and went to MIT for graduate studies. It was there he first became interested in biologically important molecules through his work with John Sheehan , the first person to synthesize penicillin. After receiving his doctorate in chemistry in 1972, he went to Imperial College in London as a United Kingdom Research Fellow. There he worked with Nobel Prize winning Chemist Derek Barton .