Professor Angela Russell University of Oxford, UK Angela is a Professor of Medicinal Chemistry jointly between the Departments of Chemistry and Pharmacology at the University of Oxford. She gained her DPhil in Organic Chemistry in 2004, and in 2007 she was awarded a Research Councils’ UK Fellowship. Her research concerns the discovery and translation of new molecules and mechanisms to manipulate cell fate, particularly for degenerative diseases.
Professor Ryan Shenvi The Scripps Research Institute California, USA
Ryan Shenvi is a Full Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, CA. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware and earned his BS with honors and distinction in chemistry as a Schreyer’s Scholar at Penn State University, where he conducted research with John Desjarlais and Raymond Funk. Ryan earned his Ph.D. in 2008 from The Scripps Research Institute as an NDSEG Fellow under the supervision of Phil S. Baran, and undertook postdoctoral studies as a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with E. J. Corey at Harvard University. He started his independent career at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla in 2010 and was tenured in 2014. His laboratory works at the interface of catalysis, complex molecule synthesis and structural biology. He was the recipient of the 2021 ACS E.J. Corey Award, a 2020 Blavatnik Finalist Award in Chemistry and the 2019 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. He serves as Advisory Editor on the Angewandte Chemie Scientific Advisory Board, Executive Editor at the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Central Science and Accounts of Chemical Research.
Dr Ruth Webster University of Bath, UK
Ruth Webster obtained her MSci from the University of Strathclyde and her PhD from the University of Bristol (2011, Professor Robin Bedford). Following a Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia with Professor Laurel Schafer, Ruth returned to the UK in 2012 where she is currently an EPSRC Early Career Fellow in Catalysis at the University of Bath.
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