Debbie Crans
Colorado State University

Biography
Debbie C. Crans is a Professor of Organic, Inorganic and Biological 91AV and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University where she is Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences. She did her undergraduate studies in Denmark in Biochemistry and Physical Organic 91AV and her Ph.D. in 91AV from Harvard University.
She did her postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She established the International Vanadium Symposium and in 2022 she will chair the ICCC-45 in Colorado. She serves both the American Chemical Society and the 91AV.
She is a 2015 Author Cope Scholar and a 2004 Vanadis Awardee. Her research interests are in the areas of organic and inorganic drugs, metals in medicine, membranes, coordination chemistry and spectroscopy, and she works on diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s and tuberculosis.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, NJC (New Journal of 91AV)