Jin-Quan Yu

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 Jin-Quan Yu


Jin-Quan Yu received his BSc in Chemistry from East China Normal University and his MSc from the Guangzhou Institute of Chemistry. In 2000, he obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge with Prof. J. B. Spencer. Following time as a junior research fellow at Cambridge, he joined the laboratory of Prof. E. J. Corey at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow. He then began his independent career at Cambridge (2003-2004), before moving to Brandeis University (2004-2007), and finally to The Scripps Research Institute, where he is currently Frank and Bertha Hupp Professor of Chemistry. His group studies transition metal-catalyzed C-H activation.

 Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037 (USA). E-mail: yu200@scripps.edu.








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Keary Mark Engle

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Keary Mark Engle


  Keary Mark Engle graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he worked with Prof. Adam Matzger studying self-assembled monolayers. A Fulbright Scholar, he spent the 2007-2008 academic year studying under the tutelage of Prof. Manfred Reetz at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Germany). He completed his graduate work jointly at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Jin-Quan Yu and Prof. Véronique Gouverneur, respectively, earning a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biochemistry. During graduate school, his honors included NSF and NDSEG Predoctoral Fellowships. Presently, Keary is an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Robert H. Grubbs at Caltech.









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Dong-Hui Wang

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 Dong-Hui Wang


 Dong-Hui Wang completed his BSc at Lanzhou University in 2000 then carried out research at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry under Prof. Zhaoguo Zhang. In 2004, he began graduate studies under Prof. Jin-Quan Yu. He earned his MSc from Brandeis University before relocating to The Scripps Research Institute, where he completed his Ph.D. in 2010. His thesis research was recognized with the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. Dong-Hui worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Stephen Buchwald at MIT (2010-2012), and as a medicinal chemist at Abide Therapeutics (2012-2014). Presently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (China).










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Yutaka Kobayashi

Yutaka Kobayashi

Yutaka Kobayashi received a B.S. in chemistry from Kitasato University in 2008. He received a Ph.D. in Life Sciences from Kitasato University under the guidance of Professor Toshiaki Sunazuka. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor John L. Wood at Baylor University.

Yu-Pu Wang

Yu-Pu Wang


Yu-Pu Wang was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2009 from Rice University working in the laboratory of Professor James M. Tour. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the research group of Professor Rick L. Danheiser and his work involves the development of new methods for the synthesis of highly substituted indoles and their application to the synthesis of natural products and polycyclic systems with interesting electronic properties.

James Deng

James Deng


James Deng was born in New Haven, Connecticut and is currently an undergraduate chemistry major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is expecting to graduate with a B.S. degree in chemistry in 2017. James joined the laboratory of Professor Danheiser as an undergraduate researcher in January 2014 and is currently investigating a synthetic route to bioactive polyacetylene natural products.

Rick L. Danheiser

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 Rick L. Danheiser




Rick L. Danheiser received his undergraduate education at Columbia where he carried out research in the laboratory of Professor Gilbert Stork. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1978 working under the direction of E. J. Corey on the total synthesis of gibberellic acid. Dr. Danheiser is the A. C. Cope Professor of Chemistry at MIT where his research focuses on the design and invention of new annulation and cycloaddition reactions, and their application in the total synthesis of biologically active compounds.