The following list of United States Synthetic Organic Faculty was originally compiled by Professor Matt McIntosh, University of Arkansas and was called Organiclinks. He created the list in the late 1990’s and maintained it for 20+ years for the members of his group and those of the organic community. The Links here are provided as a service to the organic chemistry community. They are not an endorsement by the Division.
If you would like us to add your group, recommend other chemists and/or links, advertise for a postdoc position, or submit a comment or suggestion, please use the Contact the OrganicLinks Advisory Board form.
Please refer to our Synthetic Postdoc Openings page for available positions.
Alabama
- Kevin Shaughnessy, Alabama
- Timothy Snowden, Alabama
- Michael Jennings, Alabama
- Pengfei Wang, Alabama – Birmingham
- Sadanandan Velu, Alabama – Birmingham
- Ming Chen, Auburn
- Anne Gorden, Auburn
- Rashad Karimov, Auburn
- Bradley Merner, Auburn
- Stewart Schneller, Auburn
Arizona
- Eugene Mash, Arizona
- Robin Polt, Arizona
- Dominic McGrath, Arizona
- Jon Njardarson, Arizona
- John Jewett, Arizona
- Laura Ackerman, Arizona State
- Kyle Biegasiewicz, Arizona State
Arkansas
California
- Gregory Fu, Cal Tech
- Robert Grubbs, Cal Tech
- Sarah Reisman, Cal Tech
- Brian Stoltz, Cal Tech
- Phil Baran, Scripps
- Donna Blackmond, Scripps
- Dale Boger, Scripps
- Keary Engle, Scripps
- Kim Janda, Scripps
- Hans Renata, Scripps
- K. Barry Sharpless, Scripps
- Ryan Shenvi, Scripps
- Chi Huey Wong, Scripps
- Peng Wu, Scripps
- Jin-Quan Yu, Scripps
- Justin Du Bois, Stanford
- Barry M. Trost, Stanford
- Paul Wender, Stanford
- Noah Burns, Stanford
- Carolyn Bertozzi, Stanford
- Dean Toste, UC Berkeley
- Richmond Sarpong, UC Berkeley
- John Hartwig, UC Berkeley
- Thomas Maimone, UC Berkeley
- Peter Beal, UC Davis
- Mark Kurth, UC Davis
- Jaquelyn Gervay-Hague, UC Davis
- Jared Shaw, UC Davis
- Annaliese Franz, UC Davis
- Mark Mascal, UC Davis Postdoc Wanted
- David Olson, UC Davis
- Elizabeth Bess, UD Irvine
- James Nowick, UC Irvine
- Kenneth Shea, UC Irvine
- David Van Vranken, UC Irvine
- Larry Overman, UC Irvine
- Scott Rychnovsky, UC Irvine
- Christopher Vanderwal, UC Irvine
- Elizabeth Jarvo, UC Irvine
- Suzanne Blum, UC Irvine
- Vy Dong, UC Irvine
- Jenn Prescher, UC Irvine
- Sergey Pronin, UC Irvine
- Neil Garg, UCLA
- Patrick Harran, UCLA
- Michael Jung, UCLA
- Ohyun Kwon, UCLA
- Hosea Nelson, UCLA
- Michael Pirrung, UC Riverside
- Bruce Lipshutz, UC Santa Barbara
- R. Daniel Little, UC Santa Barbara
- Thomas Pettus, UC Santa Barbara
- Javier Read de Alaniz, UC Santa Barbara
- Yang Yang, UC Santa Barbara
- Armen Zakarian, UC Santa Barbara
- Liming Zhang, UC Santa Barbara
- Rebecca Braslau, UC Santa Cruz
- Bakthan Singaram, UC Santa Cruz
- Michael Burkart, UC San Diego
- Tadeusz Molinski, UC San Diego
- Valerie Schmidt, UC San Diego
- Dionicio Siegel, UC San Diego
- Emmanuel Theodorakis, UC San Diego
- Benjamin Stokes, UC Merced
- Ryan Baxter, UC Merced
- Jason Sello, UCSF
- Douglas Grotjahn, San Diego State
- Nicos Petasis, USC
- Kyung Jung, USC
- Travis Williams, USC
- G. K. Surya Prakash, USC
- David Horne, City of Hope
Colorado
- Andy McNally, Colorado State
- Robert Williams, Colorado State
- Yian Shi, Colorado State
- Tarek Sammakia, Colorado
- Xiang Wang, Colorado
- Maciej Walczak, Colorado
- Brian Michel, University of Denver
- Bryan Cowen, University of Denver
- Andrei Kutateladze, University of Denver
Connecticut
- Amy Howell, Connecticut
- Nicholas Leadbeater, Connecticut
- Mark Peczuh, Connecticut
- Craig Crews, Yale
- Scott Miller, Yale
- Seth Herzon, Yale
- David Spiegel, Yale
- William Jorgensen, Yale
- Jon Ellman, Yale
- Timothy Newhouse, Yale
Delaware
- Joseph Fox, Delaware
- Neal Zondlo, Delaware
- William Chain, Delaware
- Donald Watson, Delaware
- Mary Watson, Delaware
Florida
- Lisa McElwee-White, Florida
- Aaron Aponick, Florida
- Alexander Grenning, Florida
- Robert Huigens, Florida
- Zhongwu Guo, Florida
- Daniel Seidel, Rutgers
- Norito Takenaka, Florida Institute of Technology
- Salvatore Lepore, Florida Atlantic University
- Yu Yuan, University of Central Florida
- James Frederich, Florida State
- Joel Smith, Florida State
- Kirpal Bisht, South Florida
- Edward Turos, South Florida
- Michael Shi, South Florida
- Justin Lopchuk, Moffitt Cancer Center
Georgia
- Simon Blakey, Emory
- Huw Davies, Emory
- Lanny Liebeskind, Emory
- Dennis Liotta, Emory
- Frank McDonald, Emory
- Nate Jui, Emory
- William Wuest, Emory
- Anthony Arduengo, Georgia Tech Postdoc Wanted
- Stefan France, Georgia Tech
- M.G. Finn, Georgia Tech
- Geert-Jan Boons, Georgia
- Eric Ferreira, Georgia
- Suri Iyer, Georgia State
Hawaii
- Marcus Tius, Hawaii
Idaho
- Kristopher Waynant, Idaho
Illinois
- Mark Levin, University of Chicago
- Viresh Rawal, University of Chicago
- Scott Snyder, University of Chicago
- Guangbin Dong, University Chicago
- Will Dichtel, Northwestern
- Julia Kalow, Northwestern
- SonBinh Nguyen, Northwestern
- Karl Scheidt, Northwestern
- Regan Thomson, Northwestern
- Richard Silverman, Northwestern
- Fraser Stoddard, Northwestern
- Laura Anderson, Illinois-Chicago
- Tom Driver, Illinois-Chicago
- Daesung Lee, Illinois-Chicago
- Justin Mohr, Illinois-Chicago
- Duncan Wardrop, Illinois-Chicago
- Martin Burke, Illinois
- Scott Denmark, Illinois
- Paul Hergenrother, Illinois
- John Katzenellenbogen, Illinois
- Christina White, Illinois
- Timothy Hagen, Northern Illinois
- Hee Yeon Cho, Loyola University Chicago
- Douglas Klumpp, Northern Illinois
Indiana
- Kevin Brown, Indiana
- Silas Cook, Indiana
- Nicola Pohl, Indiana
- Thomas Snaddon, Indiana
- Michael VanNieuwenhze, Indiana
- David Williams, Indiana
- Robert Minto, IUPUI
- Sebastien Laulhe, IUPUI
- Brandon Ashfeld, Notre Dame
- Juan Del Valle, Notre Dame
- Paul Helquist, Notre Dame
- Christian Melander, Notre Dame
- Richard Taylor, Notre Dame
- Ryan Altman, Purdue
- P. V. Ramachandran, Purdue
- Mark Cushman, Purdue
- Mark Lipton, Purdue
- Arun Ghosh, Purdue
- Christopher Uyeda, Purdue
- Mingji Dai, Purdue
- Daniel Flaherty, Purdue
- Herman Sintim, Purdue
Iowa
- Horacio Olivo, Iowa
- David Wiemer, Iowa
- Greg Friestad, Iowa
- Zhendong Jin, Iowa Postdoc Wanted
- Dave Martin, Iowa
- Chris Pigge, Iowa
- Hien Nguyen, Iowa
- Florence Williams, Iowa
- George Kraus, Iowa State
- Aaron Sadow, Iowa State
- Levi Stanley, Iowa State
Kansas
- Duy Hua, Kansas State
- Ryan Rafferty, Kansas State
- Zarko Boskovic, Kansas
- Michael Rubin, Kansas
- Jon Tunge, Kansas
Kentucky
- Bob Grossman, Kentucky
- R. Kiplin Guy, Kentucky, College of Pharm. Postdoc Wanted
- Thomas Prisinzano, University of Kentucky, College of Pharm.
- Dave Watt, Kentucky
- Frederick Luzzio, University of Louisville
- Michael Nantz, University of Louisville
- Gerald Hammond, University of Louisville
Louisiana
- Rendy Kartika, Louisiana State
- Semin Lee, Louisiana State
- Justin Ragains, Louisiana State
- Carol Taylor, Louisiana State
- Mark Trudell, New Orleans
Maine
- Matthew Brichacek, Maine
Maryland
- Thomas Lectka, Johns Hopkins
- Rebekka Klausen, Johns Hopkins
- Craig Townsend, Johns Hopkins
- Caren Meyers, Johns Hopkins
- Philip DeShong, Maryland
- Osvaldo Gutierrez, Maryland
- Katherine Seley-Radke, Maryland, Baltimore Co.
- Daniel Appella, NIDDK, NIH
- John Schneekloth, NCI, NIH
- Martin Schnermann, NCI, NIH
- Clifton Barry, NIAID, NIH
Massachusetts
- Amir Hoveyda, Boston College
- James Morken, Boston College
- Marc Snapper, Boston College
- Masayuki Wasa, Boston College
- X. Peter Zhang, Boston College
- Aaron Beeler, Boston University
- James Panek, Boston University
- John Porco, Boston University
- Scott Shaus, Boston University
- John Snyder, Boston University
- Barry Snider, Brandeis
- Isaac Krauss, Brandeis
- Chi Ting, Brandeis Postdoc Wanted
- Hao Xu, Brandeis
- E. J. Corey, Harvard
- Yoshito Kishi, Harvard
- Eric Jacobsen, Harvard
- Andrew Myers, Harvard
- Stuart Schreiber, Harvard
- Matthew Shair, Harvard
- Daniel Kahne, Harvard
- Christina Woo, Harvard
- Rick Danheiser, MIT
- Timothy Jamison, MIT
- Laura Kiessling, MIT
- Stephen Buchwald, MIT
- Mohammad Movassaghi, MIT
- Alex Radosevich, MIT
- Alison Wendlandt, MIT
- Clay Bennett, Tufts
- George O’Doherty, Northeastern
- Roman Manetsch, Northeastern
- James Dittami, Worcester Polytechnic
- Anita Mattson, Worcester Polytechnic
- Patricia Musacchio, Worcester Polytechnic Postdoc Wanted
- Sivappa Rasapalli, University Mass Dartmouth
- Wei Zhang, University Mass Boston
Michigan
- Anna Mapp, Michigan
- Ann McNeil, Michigan
- John Montgomery, Michigan
- Pavel Nagorny, Michigan
- Alison Narayan, Michigan
- Melanie Sanford, Michigan
- Corey Stephenson, Michigan Postdoc Wanted
- Corinna Schindler, Michigan
- John Wolfe, Michigan
- Jeremy Kodanko, Wayne State
- Jennifer Stockdill, Wayne State
- Rob Maleczka, Michigan State
- William Wulff, Michigan State
- Babak Borhan, Michigan State
- Jetze Tepe, Michigan State
- Xuefei Huang, Michigan State
- Aaron Odom, Michigan State
Minnesota
- Courtney Aldrich, Minnesota
- Christopher Douglas, Minnesota
- David Ferguson, Minnesota
- Dan Harki, Minnesota
- Tom Hoye, Minnesota
- Steven Kass, Minnesota
- Jessica Lamb, Minnesota
- Nicholas Race, Minnesota
- Courtney Roberts, Minnesota
- Ian Tonks, Minnesota
- Joseph Topczewski, Minnesota
- Zhengqiang Wang, Minnesota
Mississippi
- David Colby, Mississippi
- Hoang Le, Mississippi
- Matthew Donahue, University Southern Mississippi
- Julie Pigza, University Southern Mississippi
- Xin Cui, Mississippi State
Missouri
- Michael Harmata, Missouri – Columbia
- Christopher Spilling, Missouri – St. Louis
- Alexei Demchenko, Missouri – St. Louis
- Eike Bauer, Missouri – St. Louis
- Kevin Moeller, Washington University
Montana
- Matthew Cook, Montana State
- Tom Livinghouse, Montana State
- Sharon Neufeldt, Montana State
- Nick Natale, Montana
Nebraska
- David Berkowitz, Nebraska
- Patrick Dussault, Nebraska
- James Takacs, Nebraska
- Amar Natarajan, University Nebraska Medical Center
Nevada
New Hampshire
- Charles Zercher, New Hampshire
- Gordon Gribble, Dartmouth
- David Glueck, Dartmouth
- Peter Jacobi, Dartmouth
- Jimmy Wu, Dartmouth
- Glenn Micalizio, Dartmouth
New Jersey
- Joel Freundlich, Rutgers
- Spencer Knapp, Rutgers
- Lawrence Williams, Rutgers
- Michal Szostak, Rutgers – Newark
- Erik Sorensen, Princeton
- David MacMillan, Princeton
- Abigail Doyle, Princeton
- Robert Knowles, Princeton
New Mexico
New York
- Samuel Danishefsky, Columbia
- James Leighton, Columbia
- Dalibor Sames, Columbia
- Tristan Lambert, Columbia
- Tom Rovis, Columbia
- Derek Tan, Sloan-Kettering
- Geoffrey Coates, Cornell
- Song Lin, Cornell
- Alison Frontier, Rochester
- Benjamin Miller, Rochester Medical
- Eriks Rozners, Binghamton University, SUNY
- Steven Diver, University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Sherry Chemler, University at Buffalo, SUNY
- Ming-Yu Ngai, Stony Brook University, SUNY
- Iwao Ojima, Stony Brook University, SUNY
- Kathlyn Parker, Stony Brook University, SUNY
- Ting Wang, University at Albany, SUNY
- Zhang Wang, University at Albany, SUNY
- John Welch, University at Albany, SUNY
- Qiang Zhang, University at Albany, SUNY
- David Mootoo, Hunter College
- Wayne Harding, Hunter College
- Shengping Zheng, Hunter College
- Keith Woerpel, NYU
- Paramjit Arora, NYU
- Tianning Diao, NYU
- Dirk Trauner, NYU
- Stacey Brenner, CUNY – Brooklyn College
- Maria Contel, CUNY – Brooklyn College
- Alexander Greer, CUNY – Brooklyn College
- Ryan Murelli, CUNY – Brooklyn College
- John Chisholm, Syracuse
- Nancy Totah, Syracuse
- Mark Biscoe, CCNY
- Mahesh Lakshman, CCNY
- Barbara Zajc, CCNY
North Carolina
- Jiyong Hong, Duke
- Steven Malcolmson, Duke
- Jennifer Roizen, Duke
- Ross Widenhoefer, Duke
- Qiu Wang, Duke
- Vincent Lindsay, NC State
- Jonathan Lindsey, NC State
- Joshua Pierce, NC State
- Caroline Proulx, NC State
- Erik Alexanian, UNC Chapel Hill
- Jeffrey Aubé, UNC Chapel Hill
- Michael Crimmins, UNC Chapel Hill
- Michel Gagné, UNC Chapel Hill
- Jeff Johnson, UNC Chapel Hill
- Simon Meek, UNC Chapel Hill
- David Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill
- Mark Welker, Wake Forest
- Bruce King, Wake Forest
- Mitchell Croatt, UNC Greensboro
- Kimberley Petersen, UNC Greensboro
North Dakota
Ohio
- Robert Salomon, Case Western
- Craig Forsyth, Ohio State
- David Nagib, Ohio State
- Jon Parquette, Ohio State
- T. V. Rajanbabu, Ohio State
- Blake Peterson, Ohio State – College of Pharmacy
- Stephen Bergmeier, Ohio University
- Mark McMills, Ohio University
- Benjamin Gung, Miami-Ohio
- Peter Andreana, University of Toledo
- Wei Li, University of Toledo
- Steven Shucheck, University of Toledo
- Jianglong Zhu, University of Toledo
Oklahoma
- Kenneth Nicholas, Oklahoma
- Adam Duerfeldt, Oklahoma
- Anthony Burgett, Oklahoma
- Indrajeet Sharma, Oklahoma
- Richard Bunce, Oklahoma State
- Toby Nelson, Oklahoma State
- Jimmie Pitre, Oklahoma State
- Jimmie Weaver, Oklahoma State
- Syed Hussaini, University of Tulsa
Oregon
- James White, Oregon State
- Rich Carter, Oregon State
- Paul Blakemore, Oregon State
- Chris Beaudry, Oregon State
- Michael Haley, Oregon
- David Stuart, Portland State University
Pennsylvania
- Marisa Kozlowski, Pennsylvania
- Gary Molander, Pennsylvania
- Amos Smith, Pennsylvania
- Jeffrey Winkler, Pennsylvania
- Ramesh Giri, Penn State
- Eric Nacsa, Penn State
- Kay Brummond, Pittsburgh
- Dennis Curran, Pittsburgh
- Paul Floreancig, Pittsburgh
- Peter Wipf, Pittsburgh
- Kazunori Koide, Pittsburgh Postdoc Wanted
- Alexander Deiters, Pittsburgh
- Xinyu Liu, Pittsburgh
- Franklin Davis, Temple
- Scott Sieburth, Temple
- Rodrigo Andrade, Temple
- Sarah Wengryniuk, Temple
- Fraser Fleming, Drexel
- Dionicio Martinez, Drexel
- William Malachowski, Bryn Mawr
- Robert Flowers, Lehigh
- David Vicic, Lehigh
- David Lapinsky, Duquesne
Puerto Rico
- John Soderquist, Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
- David Baker, Tennessee
- Ampofo Darko, Tennessee
- Michio Kurosu, Tennessee Health Science Center
- Carmelo Rizzo, Vanderbilt
- Gary Sulikowski, Vanderbilt
- Jeffrey Johnston, Vanderbilt
- Craig Lindsley, Vanderbilt
- Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt
- Richard Lee, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Fatima Rivas, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Texas
- Bob Kane, Baylor
- Kevin Pinney, Baylor
- Liela Romero, Baylor Postdoc Wanted
- Daniel Romo, Baylor Postdoc Wanted
- John Wood, Baylor
- Jef De Brabander, UT Southwestern Medical
- Joseph Ready, UT Southwestern Medical
- Chuo Chen, UT Southwestern Medical
- Uttam Tambar, UT Southwestern Medical Postdoc Wanted
- Tian Qin, UT Southwestern Medical
- Myles Smith, UT Southwestern Medical
- Kevin Burgess, Texas A & M
- Carl Lovely, Texas – Arlington
- Frank Foss, Texas – Arlington
- Junha Jeon, Texas – Arlington
- Alejandro Bugarin, Texas – Arlington
- Hyunsoo Han, Texas – San Antonio
- George Negrete, Texas – San Antonio
- Oleg Larionov, Texas – San Antonio
- John C.-G. Zhao, Texas – San Antonio
- Doug Frantz, Texas – San Antonio
- Michael Doyle, Texas – San Antonio
- Shizue Mito, Texas – El Paso
- Jung-Mo Ahn, Texas – Dallas
- Vladimir Gevorgyan, Texas – Dallas
- Eric Welin, Texas – Dallas Postdoc Wanted
- Zachary Ball, Rice
- K. C. Nicolaou, Rice
- László Kürti, Rice
- Julian. West, Rice
- Kami Hull, Texas – Austin
- Michael Krische, Texas – Austin
- Stephen Martin, Texas – Austin
- Guigen Li, Texas Tech
- Michael Mayer, Texas Tech
- Jean-Luc Montchamp, Texas Christian
- Olafs Daugulis, Houston
- Ognjen Miljanic, Houston
- Jeremy May, Houston
- Scott Gilbertson, Houston
- Greg Cuny, Houston
- Sergei Dzyuba, Texas Christian
- Eric Simanek, Texas Christian
Utah
- Merritt Andrus, Brigham Young
- Steven Castle, Brigham Young
- Matt Peterson, Brigham Young
- Paul Savage, Brigham Young
- David Michaelis, Brigham Young
- Gary Keck, Utah
- Matthew Sigman, Utah
- Janis Louie, Utah
- Ryan Looper, Utah
- Jon Rainier, Utah
- Bradley Davidson, Utah State
- Tom Chang, Utah State
Vermont
- Jose Madalengoitia, Vermont
- Matthias Brewer, Vermont
Virginia
- Dean Harman, Virginia
- T. Brent Gunnoe, Virginia
- Michael Hilinski, Virginia
- Lin Pu, Virginia
- Paul Carlier, Virginia Tech
- Felicia Etzkorn, Virginia Tech
- David Kingston, Virginia Tech
- Webster Santos, Virginia Tech
- Guijun Wang, Old Dominion University
Washington
- Ming Xian, Washington State
- Phil Garner, Washington State
- Forrest Michael, Washington
- Gojko Lalic, Washington
Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
- Gregory Dudley, West Virginia
- Jessica Hoover, West Virginia
- Brian Popp, West Virginia
- Björn Söderberg, West Virginia
- Kung Wang, West Virginia
Wisconsin
- Helen Blackwell, Wisconsin
- AJ Boydston, Wisconsin
- Sam Gellman, Wisconsin
- Jennifer Golden, Wisconsin
- Richard Hsung, Wisconsin
- Clark Landis, Wisconsin
- Jeff Martell, Wisconsin
- Jennifer Schomaker, Wisconsin
- Shannon Stahl, Wisconsin
- Weiping Tang, Wisconsin
- Daniel Weix, Wisconsin
- Zach Wickens, Wisconsin
- Tehshik Yoon, Wisconsin
- James Cook, Wisconsin – Milwaukee
- Christopher Dockendorff, Marquette
- William Donaldson, Marquette
- Mahmun Hossain, Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Wyoming
- Michael Taylor, Wyoming
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History
Professor McIntosh indicated that the concise list was created so that his students would become aware of all the active organic synthetic chemists in the United States because he wanted them to be aware of the chemists who they might postdoc with and/or interact with at meetings and such throughout their early careers. This is not to say that organic chemistry done elsewhere in the world is not excellent and important. He just realized that keeping a list like this was not going to be an easy task especially if it expanded to include faculty of other sub disciples of organic chemistry and/or elsewhere in the world. In 2020, Professor McIntosh turned the list over to the Division of Organic Chemistry to host and maintain. The Division leadership is willing to host the list; however, the content of the list has been relegated to a subcommittee who are not necessarily members of the Executive Committee (we are looking for DOC members who are willing to volunteer to keep this list in working order). The Division is also willing to host other relevant lists of organic chemists provided a committee of chemists can be put together to appropriately compile and maintain the list. If you would like us to consider other chemists and/or links, please use the Contact the OrganicLinks Advisory Board form.