Previous R. C. Fuson Visiting Professors

Image	2024-25 Prof. Seth B. Herzon Yale University I. Synthesis of Securines and Securamines II. Discovery and Mechanism of Action of KL-50, a Potential Treatment for Drug-Resistant Brain Cancers
Image	2023-2024 Sarah Reisman California Institute of Technology I. Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Natural Products and the Chemistry they Inspire II. Development of New Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Image	2022-2023 Abby Doyle University of California - Los Angeles I. New Approaches to Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis: Part I II. New Approaches to Chemical Synthesis & Catalysis: Part II
Image	2019-2020 Emily P. Baskus Harvard University I. Deciphering the Human Microbiota with Chemistry II. Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World
	2018-19 Neil K. Garg University of California, Los Angeles I. How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA's Most Popular Classes II. Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecular Synthesis
	2017-18 Vy M. Dong University of California, Irvine I. A Few of My Favorite Rings: Catalysis Inspired by Macrocycles II. Alkynes of Transformations
	2015-16 Kenichiro Itami Nagoya University I. Synthesis and Discovery of Bio-Functional Molecules by C-H Activation II. Single-molecule Carbon Nanotubes, Nanoribbons, and a New Form of Carbon
	2014-2015 Richmond Sarpong University of California, Berkeley I. Strategies and Tactics for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Alkaloids: Part 1 II. Strategies and Tactics for Chemical Synthesis Inspired by Complex Alkaloids: Part II
	2013-2014 Mohammad Movassaghi Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	2012-13 F. Dean Toste University of California, Berkeley
	2011-2012 Brian M. Stoltz California Institute of Technology
	2010-2011 Phil S. Baran The Scripps Research Institute
	2009-2010 Kevan M. Shokat University of California, San Francisco
	2008-2009 Geoffrey W. Coates Cornell University
	2007-2008 Melanie S. Sanford University of Michigan
	2006-2007 Erik J. Sorensen Princeton University
	2004-2005 David W. C. MacMillan California Institute of Technology
	2003-2004 Gregory C. Fu Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	2002-2003 Milan Mrksich University of Chicago
	2001-2002 James S. Nowick University of California, Irvine

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