Prof. Robert Doyle is a medicinal chemist with an interest in pharmaceutical drug and probe development for the study and treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes. He has a broad background in peptide and protein design and expression, synthetic bio-conjugate chemistry, drug delivery, protein biochemistry and assay development. In 2005, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Syracuse University and promoted, with tenure, to Associate Professor in 2009 and then full Professor in 2014. He is also adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at SUNY, Upstate Medical University (UMU). In 2016, He was named the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Syracuse University.  As a Principal Investigator (PI), he has focused on the  chemistry of vitamin B12 and its dietary pathway and components to modify drug pharmacodynamics and/or pharmacokinetics. He has been funded by the NIH and DoD, as well as multiple societies, foundations and pharmaceutical companies.  He has published over 100 research papers (35+ in the vitamin B12 space) and is the holder of over a dozen patents.