Fourteenth Annual
Bristol-Myers Squibb Chemistry Awards Symposium April 19 - April 20, 2012 • Lawrenceville, New Jersey The Bristol-Myers Squibb Chemistry Awards Symposium is held annually to recognize the outstanding recipients of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowships in Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Princeton University Bristol-Myers Squibb Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. These awards are designed to recognize and support innovative academic research in the field of synthetic organic chemistry.
Lef Column Professor Scott A. Snyder – Columbia University 2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Brian Liau – Harvard University Junjia Liu – Princeton University Scott Simonovich – Princeton University Center Column Professor Jin-Quan Yu – The Scripps Research Institute 2012 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Hans Renata – The Scripps Research Institute Daniel Treitler – Columbia University Kyle Quasdorf – University of California, Los Angeles Right Column
Bristol-Myers Squibb is proud to announce that Professor Jin-Quan Yu of The Scripps Research Institute is the recipient of the 2012 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Professor Yu completed his undergraduate studies at East China Normal University in 1987 and his Ph.D. with Dr J. B. Spencer at the University of Cambridge in 1999. After completing postdoctoral studies at Harvard University with Professor Elias J. Corey and one year as a Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Brandeis University in March of 2004. Professor Yu’s research group moved to The Scripps Research Institute in 2007. His research focuses on the discovery of catalytic carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions through C-H activation. Target transformations are selected to enable 1) the use of simple and abundant starting materials, such as aliphatic acids, amines and alcohols, and 2) disconnections that dramatically shorten the synthesis of biologically active compounds. His group ultimately hopes to develop diverse catalytic reactions that parallel enzymatic transformations in terms of reactivity and selectivity. To achieve this ambitious goal, his research activities are directed toward aspects of catalysis, chemoselectivity, enantioselectivity and synthetic application. Among his research group’s numerous discoveries are ligands which facilitate enantioselective C-H activation reactions, ligands which accelerate C-H functionalization and ligands which afford unprecedented regioselectivity in C-H activation reactions.
Professor Elias J. Corey – Harvard University James Lajiness – The Scripps Research Institute Tim Newhouse – Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Fang Gao – Boston College
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