Gregory D. Cuny earned a BS degree in Chemistry from Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then worked in industry for nine years before returning to academics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he spent eleven years. In 2012, he moved to the University of Houston’s College of Pharmacy, where his research group pursues synthetic medicinal chemistry-related projects, including the synthesis and pharmacological study of aporphine alkaloids and other conformational restricted classes of natural products.