Lemont B. Kier has been honored as a Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and as Chair of Honor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published over 200 articles in 50 scientific journals, in addition to authoring or co-authoring five books. He received Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. He is currently a professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.