GENENTECH GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Congratulations to our 2025 Graduate Student Awardees!

• Zining Zhang, University of Chicago
• Benjamin Gross, California Institute of Technology
• Madeline Ruos, University of California, Los Angeles
• Alice Long, Princeton University
• Raymond Martinez, Purdue University
• Y Dang, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Yu-Che Chang, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Matthew Lamb, Cornell University

2025 Distinguished Career Lecturer

• Professor Brian Stoltz, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

2025 Keynote Lecturer

• Professor Courtney Roberts, 3M Alumni Professor, McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

Congratulations to our 2024 Graduate Student Awardees!

• Ellie Plachinski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Noah Bissonnette, Princeton University
• Sabina Maurer, University of Pennsylvania
• Kaitlyn Keasler, Cornell University
• Jason Wang, University of California, LA
• Jordan Thompson, California Institute of Technology
• Nicole Curnutt, Harvard University
• Arismel Tena-Meza, University of California, LA

2024 Distinguished Career Lecturer

• Professor John F. Hartwig, Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

2024 Keynote Lecturer

• Professor Sid Winkerson-Hill, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2023 Distinguished Career Lecturer

Eric Jacobson, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University

2023 Keynote Lecturer

Alison Wendlandt, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2023 Graduate Student Awardees

• Isaac Yu, University of California, Berkeley
• Carter N. Stout, The Scripps Research Institute
• Taylor Bednar, The Ohio State University
• Shivaani Gandhi, University of California, LA
• Eli Ortiz, The University of Texas at Austin
• Mikaela DiBello, Yale University
• Claire Page, Princeton University
• Patrick Kelly, University of Chicago

2022 Keynote Speaker

• Mark Levin, Associate Professor, University of Chicago

2022 Distinguished Career Lecturer

• Richmond Sarpong: Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

2022 Graduate Student Awardees

• Katherine Forbes, Jacobsen Lab, Harvard
• Kerry Jones, Sarpong Lab, Berkeley
• Andre Sanchez, Maimone Lab, Berkeley
• Elton Kativhu, Morken Lab, Boston College
• Holly Vickery, Arkin Lab, UCSF
• Jason Ma, Hartwig Lab, Berkeley
• Elissa Fink, Shoichet Lab, UCSF
• Dylan Holst, Wickens Lab, UW-Madison

2021 Keynote Speaker

• Ian Seiple, Associate Professor of Chemistry, UC San Francisco

2021 Distinguished Career Lecturer

• Donna Blackmond, Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute

2021 Graduate Student Awardees

• Joshua Combs, Herzon Lab, Yale University
• Renyu Guo, Brown Lab, Indiana University
• Nicholas Hafeman, Stoltz Lab, California Institute of Technology
• Jaeyeon Hwang, Miller Lab, Yale University
• Sam Lardy, Schmidt Lab, University of California, San Diego
• Gen Li, Radosevish Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Ishika Saha, Harran Lab, University of California, Los Angeles
• Zican Shen, Ellman Lab, Yale University

2020 Keynote Speaker

• Prof. Sergey Pronin, UC Irvine

2020 Distinguished Career Lecturer

• Prof. Dean Toste, UC Berkeley

2020 Graduate Student Awardees

• Yaroslov Boyko, Sarlah Lab, University of Illinois
• Sie-Jie Chen, Stahl Lab, University of Wisconsin
• Jennifer Crawford, Sigman Lab, University of Utah
• Hope Flaxman, Woo Lab, Harvard University
• Jackson Gartman, Tambar Lab, University of Texas Southwestern
• Emma King-Smith, Renata Lab, The Scripps Research Institute
• Hayden Sharma, Jacobsen Lab, Harvard University
• Van Tran, Engle Lab, Scripps Research Institute

2019 Keynote Speaker

• Prof. Andy McNally, Colorado State University

2019 Graduate Student Awardees

• Tim Bumpus, Baskin Lab, Cornell University
• Megan Emmanuel, Hyster Lab, Princeton University
• Sean Feng, Reisman Lab, California Institute of Technology
• Samantha Green, Shenvi Lab, The Scripps Research Institute
• Zhen Liu, Engle Lab, The Scripps Research Institute
• Lucas Hernandez, Sarlah Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Rory McAtee, Stephenson Lab, University of Michigan
• Brian Shao, Nelson Lab, University of California, Los Angeles

2018 Keynote Speaker

• Prof. Kami L. Hull, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2018 Graduate Student Awardees

• Megan Mohadjer Beromi, Hazari Lab, Yale University
• Matthew Condakes, University of California, Berkeley
• Masha Elkin, Newhouse Lab, Yale University
• Devin Ferguson, Sanford Lab, University of Michigan
• Chi “Chip” Le, MacMillan Lab, Princeton University
• Stephanie R. McCabe, Wipf Lab, University of Pittsburg
• R. David Row, Prescher Lab, University of California, Irvine
• Yumeng Xi, Hartwig Lab, University of California, Berkeley

2017 Keynote Speaker

• Prof. Robert Knowles, Princeton University

2017 Graduate Student Awardees

• Emma L. Baker-Tripp, University of California, Los Angeles
• Faben A. Cruz, University of California, Irvine
• Stephanie Hare, University of California, Davis
• Graham A. Hudson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Zachary A. Kasun, University of Texas at Austin
• Matthew Landry, Stanford University
• Samantha Shockley, California Institute of Technology
• Yan Xu, University of Chicago

2016 Keynote Speaker

• Prof. Thomas Maimone, University of California, Berkeley

2016 Graduate Student Awardees

• Thomas Brewer, University of California, Berkeley
• Zachary Brill, University of California, Berkeley
• Lauren Chapman, California Institute of Technology
• Chen Cheng, University of California, Berkeley
• Ling Chu, The Scripps Research Institute
• David Primer, University of Pennsylvania
• Mingshuo Zeng, Yale University
• Chi Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology