Novartis Lecture

The Novartis Lecture is sponsored by the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) to feature the most innovative scientists working in synthetic organic chemistry today.

2010 Lecture

Professor Regan J. Thomson
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University

Development and Application of Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions

March 21, 2011

Previous Novartis Speakers

 

2010 Lecture
Professor Tobias Ritter
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Fluorine Bond Formation
February 1, 2010

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2009 Lecture
Professor Scott Snyder
Columbia University
Lessons in Chemoselectivity: Total Synthesis of Polyphenolic Natural Products
February 2, 2009

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2008 Lecture
Professor Mohammad Movassaghi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cascade Reactions in Complex Alkaloid Synthesis
February 11, 2008

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2007 Lecture
Professor Melanie Sanford
University of Michigan
Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Investigations of Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalization
January 22, 2007

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2006 Lecture
Professor Phil S. Baran
Department of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
The Catalytic Cycle of Discovery in Total Synthesis
March 20, 2006
Photographs of the Reception Honoring Professor Baran and the Recipients of the Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities

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2005 Lecture
Professor Brian Stoltz
California Institute of Technology
Complex Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
January 31, 2005
Photographs of the Reception Honoring Professor Stolz and the Recipient of the Novartis Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Women and Minorities

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2004 Inaugural Lecture
Professor Michael Krische
University of Texas at Austin
Enones as Latent Enolates in Catalysis: Discovery of Catalytic C-C Bond- Forming Hydrogenations
March 29, 2004