Education2001 Ph.D., Columbia University (with Prof. Ronald Breslow)
2000 M.Phil., Columbia University
1998 M.A., Columbia University
1995 B.S., University of California, Berkeley
Appointments
2018-present Professor, UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2014-2016 Founder and Board of Directors, Amydis Diagnostics
2012-2013 Visiting Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
2009-2018 Associate Professor, UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2003-2009 Assistant Professor, UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (with Prof. George M. Whitesides)
Awards and Academic Honors
2011 California HIV/AIDS IDEA Award
2009 NSF CAREER Award
2008 Alzheimer's Association New Investigator Award
2007 American Cancer Society Research Scholar
2006 Wallace H. Coulter Translational Research Partnership Award
2006 Hellman Fellow
2004 UCSD Faculty Career Development Award
2004 Thieme Journal Award, Synthesis and Synlett
2001 Ph.D. with Distinction, Columbia University
2001 Hammett Award for excellence in research, Columbia University
1999-2001 EPA NCERQA STAR graduate fellowship
1999 Bristol-Myers Squibb graduate fellowship
1998 Sylvia and Victor G. Fourman graduate fellowship
1998 Jack Miller Award for excellence in teaching, Columbia University
1995-1996 Outstanding Teaching Award, U.C. Berkeley
1995 B.S. with Honors, U.C. Berkeley