Peter Schultz, PhD

President and Chief Executive Officer
L.S. “Sam” Skaggs Presidential Chair

Peter Schultz, PhD, is the president and chief executive officer of Scripps Research, as well as a successful biotech entrepreneur. Widely considered one of the top chemists in the world, he has made many seminal contributions to the field, including the development and application of methods to expand the genetic code of living organisms, the discovery of catalytic antibodies and the development and application of molecular diversity technologies to address problems in chemistry, biology and medicine.