Winner: 2024 RSC Medicinal Chemistry Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Professor Michael Bollong
Scripps Research
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Michael earned his BS in biochemistry and cell biology from 乐天堂app下载 University of California, San Diego (2009) and his PhD in chemistry from Scripps Research (2016) under 乐天堂app下载 mentorship of Pete Schultz. He was 乐天堂app下载 inaugural Scripps Fellow (2017), an early independence principal investigator position.
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