Group News

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January 2007

• Ramil Baiazitov successfully defends his Ph. D. thesis and heads for PTC Therapeutics, NJ.
• Shinji Fujimori (Ph.D., 2005) accepts a position at Merck Process, Rahway, NJ.
• Mike Ober (Ph.D., 2005) accepts a position at DuPont in Wilmington, DE.
• Ramil Baiazitov (Ph.D., 2007) accepts a position at PTC Therapeutics, NJ.
• Jeff Kallemeyn (Ph.D., 2007) accepts a position at Abbott Laboratories Process Research and Development, IL.
• Steve Tymonko (Ph.D., 2007) accepts a position at Bristol-Myers-Squibb Process Research and Development, NJ.
• Scott receives the Prelog Medal from his alma mater, the ETH-Zürich.
• Scott enjoys the hospitality of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to deliver the Fèlix Serratosa Conferences

February 2007

• Jeff Kallemeyn successfully defends his Ph. D. thesis and heads for Abbott Laboratories, IL.

April 2007

• Brian Eklov (PD, 2005-07), joins Kalexsyn, Inc. in Kalamzoo, MI.
• Christophe Eggertswyler (PD, 2005-07) returns to Switzerland for military duty!
• Steve Tymonko successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis and heads for Bristol-Myers-Squibb, NJ.
• Scott delivers the Eli Lilly Lecture at Yale, the Ingersoll Lecture at Vanderbilt University and the Dauben Lecture at the University of Washington.

May 2007

• Dr, Wei-Liang Duan (Ph.D., Hayashi) an expert in asymmetric synthesis and catalysis joins the Denmark group.

June 2007

• Scott delivers a plenary lecture at the National Organic Symposium at Duke.
• Bill Collins shares the Vanderveer Voorhees Award for the best Original Proposal, 2007. Bill joins previous group members, Jack Liu, Greg Beutner, John Heemstra, and Justin Montgomery who have won this award.

July 2007

• Russell Smith is named as a Sigma-Aldrich 2007 Graduate Student Innovation Awardee, following Chris Butler who won this recognition in 2006.

August 2007

• Dr. Matthew Cullen (Ph.D., Cushman) an expert in medicinal chemistry and modeling joins the Denmark group.
• Won-jin Chung a recipient of the R. C. Fuson Travel Award, presented a talk titled, "Lewis base activation of Lewis acids. Catalytic, enantioselective addition of glycolate derived silyl ketene acetals to aldehydes" at the fall ACS meeting in Boston.

October 2007

• Bill Collins presents a talk at his alma mater, New Mexico Institute of Technology, as part of a Pines Travel Award.
• Chris Regens presents a talk at his alma mater, Lake Forrest College, as part of a Pines Travel Award.
• Scott enjoys the hospitality of his alma mater, ETH-Zürich for a nostalgic and celebratory day, to receive the 2007 Prelog Medal and deliver a lecture.

November 2007

• Three new students join the Denmark Group: Aaron Bailey (B.S., Illinois Wesleyan), Nicholas Anderson (B.S., University of Maryland), and Robbie Wilson (B.S., St. Andrews).
• Chris Butler represented the Denmark Group at the Annual Allerton Pines/Merck Conference with a talk on “A Practical Method for the Vinylation of Aromatic Halides using Inexpensive Organosilicon Reagents.”
• Nathan Duncan-Gould and Tyler Wilson present posters on their research at the Annual Pines/Merck Allerton Conference, Tyler wins one of the “Outstanding Poster Awards.”
• Chris Butler is named as the 2007-2008 recipient of the Seemon Pines Graduate Fellowship.