Novartis Continues Sponshorship of Graduate Fellowship and Lecture
For the sixth year in a row, the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (Cambridge, MA) is continuing its support for the Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry for Minorities and Women, an undergraduate summer researcher (TBA), and the Novartis Lectureship in Organic Chemistry.
The recipient of the competitive 2008/2009 Fellowship is Ms. Jen Goss (pictured at left), a third-year student in Professor Scott Schaus’ laboratory. Her research has focused on the construction of chiral amine containing building blocks through the asymmetric catalytic Mannich reaction.
The goal of the Novartis Lecture in Organic Chemistry is to feature the work of the most innovative scientists working in synthetic organic chemistry today. The 2009 Novartis Lecture will be on February 2, 2009, and will be given by Professor Scott Snyder of Columbia University (shown at right). Professor Snyder and his group synthesize some of the most complex families of natural products known today. To view the previous Novartis speakers, please click here.