Group News

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January/February 2008

• Scott assumes the role of Editor in Chief and President of Organic Reactions.
• Won-jin Chung successfully defends his thesis and heads off the LG in Seoul, Korea.

March/April 2008

• Scott participates in a symposium and ceremony to celebrate the awarding of the prestigious Franklin Medal to Prof. Dr. Albert Eschenmoser.
• Chris Butler accepts a position in medicinal chemistry at Pfizer, Groton.

May/June 2008

• Scott delivers the Lilly Lecture at York University, Canada
• John Baird successfully defends his thesis and joins PTC Therapeutics (as the fifth Denmark Group member of the company).
• Dr. Zhuhui Zhang joins the Denmark group after receiving his Ph.D. from the USTC working with Professor Zhiyong Wang on Pd(0)-catalyzed cross coupling reactions and Pd(II) catalyzed oxidative cyclizations.
• Jessica Shackelford (U of Southern Mississippi) and Lindsey Cullen (Detroit Mercy) spend 10 weeks in the Denmark labs as Snyder Summer Scholars.
• Andrew Hoover wins a Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to continue his research over the summer.
  

July/August 2008

• Dr. Thomas Vogler joins the Denmark group as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation after receiving his Ph.D. from Münster, Germany with Prof. Armido Studer working on the interaction of nitroxides (TEMPO) with organometallic compounds.
• Scott receives a “Citation for Chemical Breakthroughs” on behalf of Organic Reactions, Inc. and the University of Illinois
• Scott receives the Robert Robinson Medal and Lectureship for 2009 from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Nathan Duncan-Gould shares the Vanderveer Voorhees Award for the best Original Proposal, 2008. Bill joins previous group members, Jack Liu, Greg Beutner, John Heemstra, Justin Montgomery and Bill Collins who have won this award.
• Tyler Wilson wins an R. C. Fuson Travel Award which he took to present a poster at the Stereochemistry Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI.