Mid-Atlantic EWOC meet up Steven Silverman MP Watson Lab Dr. Tessa Lynch-Colameta Zhenzhen Dong @

Thanks to Mid-Atlantic EWOC Zhenzhen Dong PharmaBlock Group and Ellen for a great meetup in Philadelphia today! Dr. Donna Huryn MP Watson Lab Dr. Tessa Lynch-Colameta (and amazing photography skills, Donna!)

So excited for this one! Barry Trost’s #NOS2023ND lecture is now available on the ACS Organic Division website. Great overview of several total syntheses that came from the lab. organicdivision.org/nos-2023-lectu… Barry has always loved Hershey bars, so my thesis defense gift to him - a 10 lb bar!

Congratulations to former OS editor Neil Garg Garg Lab UCLA, recipient of the 2025 ACS David Evans Award For the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis!

As a candidate for DOC chair-elect, I’m going to take the strong position that I do not support chemists in Springfield taking people’s dogs and cats and using them for food. I’m hearing that it’s happening from all the experts at my rallies…the biggest in the history of the DOC

🚨🚨🚨New Pod Alert!!! 🚨🚨🚨 Check out this months Pharm to Table Podcast where Dani Schultz and I talk peptide and Floe chemistry with Kyle and Mike! #MerckChemistry

Funding Alert: Applications for the DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) are due on Feb 19th, 2025. $6000 is awarded based on students’ research proposals, academic records, faculty recs and passion for lab science. (2024 awardees below) zurl.co/hC8g

Just canceled the newspaper that told us "Democracy Dies In Darkness" #BoycottWaPo

This is probably my favorite segment EVER by Jake Tapper 🦅. 👏 👏

In the vicinity of Penn Station/MSG and nothing screams “not a fascist” like people walking around with swastika armbands…

Important read for us on this platform, validation for the shift to healthier 🦋 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Just one more week to submit nominations for the 2025 Industrial Early and Mid-Career Investigator Awards, so nominate a colleague today! Looking forward to a great set of award talks this fall! ACS Organic Division ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry ACS ANYL Chemistry organicdivision.org/earlycareerinv… organicdivision.org/midcareerinves…

Congratulations to Dr. Garrett Muir (and other Britton lab co-authors) for this interesting investigation of Grignard reactions to C4'-modified nucleoside analogues in collaboration with Merck , L.-C. Campeau Ph.D. , and Steven Silverman ... Excellent work everyone! nature.com/articles/s4146…

The 2025 Division of Organic Chemistry Executive Committee (minus a few members who joined via Zoom)

The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward

NOS 2025 Day 1: Great to see everyone at the ⁦ACS Organic Division⁩ #NOS2025! ⁦Andy McNally⁩ ⁦Howell Research Group⁩ ⁦Mary K. Carroll⁩ ⁦Steven Silverman⁩ ⁦McLaughlin Lab⁩ ⁦Mingji Dai⁩

Presentation of the Roger Adams Award Medal to Prof. Jacobsen (⁦Jacobsen Lab⁩ )! ⁦Maleczka Research Group - MSU Chemistry⁩ gave an overview of Organic Reactions and The RA Award followed by introduction of Eric by ⁦John L. Wood⁩. Congratulations Eric! ACS Organic Division Organic Syntheses #NOS2025

After not posting for a while, I figured five simultaneous fireworks displays around lower Manhattan was a good start. Perk of living a couple blocks from the Hudson :)