Dr. Sarah Reisman

Biography

Sarah Reisman, born and raised in Bar Harbor, Maine, attended Connecticut College in New London, CT, where she developed a passion for organic synthesis while working in the laboratory of Professor Timo Ovaska, graduating with honors in 2001. She then enrolled in graduate studies at Yale University, joining the research group of Professor John Wood. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2006, with a thesis detailing the total synthesis of the natural product welwitindolinone isonitrile. Following her doctoral work, Reisman conducted postdoctoral studies in the field of asymmetric catalysis as a National Institutes of Health fellow, working under Professor Eric Jacobsen at Harvard University. Her research, conducted in the Reisman Laboratory, focuses on natural product synthesis, with an emphasis on the development of new synthetic methods to facilitate the construction of complex molecules.

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