Debbie C. Crans is a Professor of Organic, Inorganic
and Biological Chemistry and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State
University, where she is also a Professor Laureate of the College of Natural
Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Harvard University
in 1985 and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of
California, Los Angeles (1985–1986). She specializes in the fundamental
chemistry and biochemistry of drugs, with a particular focus on vanadium and
other transition metal ions as metals in medicine and the investigation of
their mechanisms of toxicity.
