Agenda

    Part 1

  • 09:30 – 09:40 a.m. edt
    Welcome, Bibiana Campos Seijo, C&EN
  • 09:40 – 09:45 a.m. edt
    Opening Remarks, Hrissi Samartzidou, Thermo Fisher Scientific
  • 09:45 – 10:25 a.m. edt
    Keynote Speaker, Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University
  • 10:25 – 10:40 a.m. edt
    Josep Cornella, Max Planck Institute for Kohlenforschung

    • Catalysis connoisseur is developing reagents that make chemistry faster and easier

  • 10:40 – 10:55 a.m. edt
    Osvaldo Gutierrez, University of Maryland

    • Organic polymath is coaxing tricky metals into helping forge carbon-carbon bonds

  • 10:55 – 11:10 a.m. edt
    Robert J. Gilliard, Jr., University of Virginia

    • Main-group marvel is solving big problems with cheaper starting materials

  • 11:10 – 11:25 a.m. edt
    Wendy Lee Queen, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)

    • Materials monarch is combining MOFs with polymers to create composites that clean up air and water

  • 11:25 – 11:40 a.m. edt
    Jessica Ray, University of Washington

    • Water protector is developing ways to remove PFAS and other contaminants from this precious resource

  • 11:40 – 11:55 a.m. edt
    Kevin Barnett, Pyran

    • Polymer pragmatist is creating economical biobased building blocks

  • 11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. edt
    BREAK

    Part 2

  • 12:10 – 12:20 p.m. edt
    Welcome Back, Lisa Jarvis, C&EN
  • 12:20 – 12:35 p.m. edt
    Lingyin Li, Stanford University

    • Multidisciplinary maven is harnessing the immune system to fight cancer

  • 12:35 – 12:50 p.m. edt
    Mireille Kamariza, Harvard University

    • Diagnostics designer is fashioning a faster, cheaper way to detect tuberculosis

  • 12:50 – 01:05 p.m. edt
    Lynn McGregor, Novartis

    • Drug discovery dynamo is using chemical biology to rewrite the rules of small molecules

  • 01:05 – 01:20 p.m. edt
    Laura-Isobel McCall, University of Oklahoma

    • Molecular mapmaker is exploring the chemical signatures of parasites and their hosts

  • 01:20 – 01:35 p.m. edt
    Brett McGuire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Interstellar explorer is expanding our molecular knowledge of space

  • 01:35 – 01:50 p.m. edt
    Rudy Wojtecki, IBM

    • Nanopatterning virtuoso is building the electronics of the future

  • 01:50 – 02:00 p.m. edt
    Closing Remarks, Lisa Jarvis, C&EN