Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research
Genentech is pleased to share an exciting opportunity for outstanding 4th year Ph.D. graduate students from U.S. universities in the fields of organic synthesis, chemical biology, and computational chemistry.
Our annual Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research recognizes promising young scientists while highlighting career opportunities in pharmaceutical research and development.
The two-day program, scheduled for April 2023 will be hosted jointly by the departments of Discovery and Process Chemistry.
Dr. Dan Sutherlin, Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery; Dr. Tim Heffron, Vice President, Small Molecule Discovery Chemistry; Dr. Francis Gosselin, Executive Director, Small Molecule Process Chemistry.
The two-day event will include:
- Research award symposium, including talks from award recipients and Genentech scientists
- Keynote seminar from a leading early-career chemistry professor
- Distinguished Career Lecture from an eminent professor
- Tour of the Genentech South San Francisco research laboratories
- Social/networking activities
- Honorarium for award recipients
Apply Today:
Interested 4th year graduate students from U.S. universities are encouraged to submit a CV and short (1-3 pages) research summary here.
Applications should be submitted as a single PDF document with identifying name and institution in the file description (example: “Surname-Firstname-Institution”).
Applications for 2023 must be received by December 31, 2022 for consideration.
Finalists will be contacted in January 2023 and awardees will be notified in March for the spring symposium (April 24-25, 2023). For more information, please email [email protected].
Genentech thanks and congratulates the 2022 symposium participants!
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
Genentech thanks and congratulates the 2021 symposium participants!
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
Genentech thanks and congratulates the 2020 symposium participants!
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
Congratulations to our 2019 symposium participants!
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
Congratulations to our 2018 Graduate Symposium student honorees!
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
Genentech thanks and congratulates the 2017 symposium participants:
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
Congratulations to our inaugural 2016 symposium participants:
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
