AstraZeneca Fellowship Awarded to Thomas Sisto
Fourth-year graduate student Thomas Sisto in Prof. Ramesh Jasti’s group has been awarded the 2013-2014 AstraZeneca Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. The award is in recognition of his scientific creativity and productivity.
Tom joined the Jasti research group as a Dean’s Fellow in the Summer of 2010. Since then he has published four papers (three as a first author). Currently Tom’s research aim is to synthesize a carbon nanotube by organic synthesis. Achieving this goal will be an enormous accomplishment for organic chemistry, as well as for materials science. At the same time, he has developed a collaborative project with Prof. Colin Nuckolls‘ group at Columbia University to use cycloparaphenylenes as “seeds” to “grow” uniform carbon nanotubes by traditional chemical deposition methods. The types of nanotubes that would be produced in this proces
s would be of the armchair variety, which has 1000-fold conductivity relative to copper and would be a major achievement. AstraZeneca is a global innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company specializing in the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of prescription medicines healthcare.
