The Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) congratulates the sixteen 2025 DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awardees and gratefully acknowledges the generous sponsors (listed below). The 2025 winners are:
Katharine Amsden
School: Occidental College
Mentor: Raul Navarro
Research: Optimization of a Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Cyclopropanation of Phthalides and Isoindolinones Using Data Chemistry
Sponsor: Genentech
Olivia Brown
School: Old Dominion University
Mentor: Kyle Lambert
Research: Advancing Bench-Stable Co(III) Complexes for Allylboration Reactions
Sponsor: Pfizer
Sam Charney
School: Yale University
Mentor: Seth Herzon
Research: Total Synthesis of Nocardiosis-Associated Polyketide Natural Product
Sponsor: Biohaven
Caitlin Dougherty
School: Michigan State University
Mentor: Joseph Gair
Research: Positional Analog Scanning by a Tag and Separate Strategy
Sponsor: Pfizer
Tanya D’Souza
School: University of California, Los Angeles
Mentor: Stuart Conway
Research: A High-throughput Direct to Biology Approach to Identify Selective EP300 Degraders
Sponsor: Genentech
Benjamin Kozloff
School: University of Rochester
Mentor: Alison Frontier
Research: Building molecular complexity through the reductive halo-Nazarov cyclization
Sponsor: Merck
Nora O’Connor
School: Harvey Mudd College
Mentor: David Vosburg
Research: Two-step Synthesis of Acylated Pyrimidines through TCFH–NMI Coupling and Sulfenylnitrene Skeletal Editing
Sponsor: Pfizer
Zachary Paikin
School: Emory University
Mentor: Monika Raj
Research: Addressing the “Forgotten Epidemic”: A Chemoproteomics Approach to Understand Inhalant Toxicity and Addiction
Sponsor: Genentech
Jordyn Pieper
School: College of Charleston
Mentor: Michael Giuliano
Research: Exploring Folding Thermodynamics in Irregularly Structured Peptides
Sponsor: BMS
Dalton Raykowski
School: Harvard University
Mentor: Richard Liu
Research: Tandem Aminocarbonylative Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling
Sponsor: Pfizer
Thomas Reimer
School: University of Notre Dame
Mentor: Brandon Ashfeld
Research: Studies Towards a Methodology for Meta-Selective Olefination of Phenols with Squaraine Ligands
Sponsor: Lilly
Alexandria Reyes
School: New York University
Mentor: Marvin Parasram
Research: C-H Functionalization Using Photo-excited N-Centered 1,3-Dipoles
Sponsor: Biopharmaworks
Kennith Ross
School: University of Delaware
Mentor: Mary Watson
Research: Investigation of Deaminative Cross-Couplings of Allylic Pyridiniums
Sponsor: GSK
Isaiah Torres
School: UC Irvine
Mentor: Christopher Vanderwal
Research: Advancing Pyrroloiminoquinone Alkaloids: Novel Antiprotozoal Agents Targeting Malaria and Babesiosis
Sponsor: Pfizer
Rachel VanWinkle
School: Campbell University
Mentor: Evan Reynolds
Research: Enzymatic cross-coupling of carbonyl compounds and alkyl halides: crossing into new territory with thiamine-dependent enzymes
Sponsor: Genentech
Ethan Warrington
School: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mentor: Jennifer Schomaker
Research: Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-H Amination Through Mechanism-Based Ligand Design
Sponsor: BMS
