The annual Peter Kollman Memorial Lecture Series honors the memory and science of Peter Andrew Kollman, PhD, a preeminent computational chemist who joined the faculty of the UCSF Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1971 and where his science thrived until his sudden death in 2001.

The 2019 lecturer is Frances H. Arnold, PhD:

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018
• California Institute of Technology
  • Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry
  • Director, Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center