Bruce Roth, Inventor of Lipitor®, to Receive 2013 SCI Perkin Medal
Discoverer of most successful drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry will be honored at the final event of Innovation Day 2013in Philadelphia.The Society of Chemical Industry, America International Group, announced today that the 2013 SCI Perkin Medal will be presented to Bruce D. Roth, vice president, Discovery Chemistry at Genentech. He will receive the medal at a dinner in his honor on September 17, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Philadelphia. “Bruce Roth is chemistry’s Ten Billion Dollar Man,” said Andreas Kramvis, President and CEO of Performance Materials and