Awards

• 2023 NSF CAREER Award
• 2021 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
• 2018 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
• 2018 Ellison Foundation Research Award
• 2015 Stanford ChEM-H Postdocs at the Interface Seed Grant
• 2013–2016 Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• 2012 Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist
• 2012 Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award
• 2012 Vivian A. and E. Emerson Morse Travel Grant 
• 2008–2011 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• 2008–2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined)
• 2008 Teaching Assistant Award, MIT Chemistry Department
• 2007 SYNStar Award, for excellence in synthetic organic chemistry
• 2007–2008 MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship
• 2006 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
• 2006 Pfizer Global Research and Development Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
• 2006 Dean’s Summer Research Award
• 2005 Herchel Smith Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
• 2005 Detur Prize, for outstanding academic achievement
• 2004, 2006 John Harvard Scholar

Education

• Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
• A.M. in Chemistry and A.B. in Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University, 2007

Research

Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Bioorthogonal chemistry; Drug target identification; Functional materials for drug delivery.

Research Keywords

Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Bioorthogonal chemistry; Drug target identification; Functional materials for drug delivery