The AstraZeneca Lectures in Chemistry have been established through the generosity of AstraZeneca Canada, Montréal, Québec, and to allow the Department of Chemistry of the University of Alberta to invite distinguished scientists who have made pioneering contributions to Organic chemistry.

AstraZeneca Lecturers:

• 2008 Ian Paterson (Cambridge University)
• 2007 Viresh Rawal (University of Chicago)
• 2006 Victor Snieckus (Queens University)
• 2005 Ben Feringa (University Groningen, The Netherlands)
• 2004 Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Research Institute)
• 2003 Jeremy Sanders (Cambridge University)
• 2002 Erick M. Carreira (ETH Zurich)