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Professor Raymond is a Lumiphore founder. After having received a B.A. from Reed College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University, he began his appointment at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, where he is currently Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry and has served as Chair of the Chemistry Department. He was a Faculty Senior Scientist of the Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has been a Visiting Professor or Lecturer at several universities around the world. Among his major awards are the Ernest O. Lawrence Award of the Department of Energy, a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, the American Chemical Society Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry, and the 2008 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Raymond is a member of the editorial boards of several journals in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry and is the author of many patents and research publications. He has been a consultant for DuPont Corp. (transition metal imaging agents), Monsanto Corp. (Roundup®, - phosphonomethylglycine), Epix Corp. (gadolinium MRI agents) and LJL Corp. (high-throughput screening). Professor Raymond also serves as Co-Chair of Lumiphore's Scientific Advisory Board.