The 2025 NESACS Process Chemistry Symposium is a day-long event focused on process chemistry and featuring speakers from industry and academia. There will be opportunities to network with members of the local chemistry community during lunch and a late afternoon reception.

There is a waitlist for this event. Please add your name to the waitlist.

Confirmed Speakers:

Jolene Reid, University of British Columbia

Bradley Pentelute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Yang Yang, UC Santa Barbara

Tianning Diao, New York University

Liang Zhang, Amgen

Joe Martinelli, Lilly

Industrial speakers from Merck and Biogen

Agenda:

8:00 AM Breakfast

8:30 AM Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Margaret Faul (Amgen)

8:40 AM Tianning Diao (NYU)

TBD

9:40 AM Liang Zhang (Amgen)

TBD

10:10 AM Break

10:30 AM Joe Martinelli (Lilly)

TBD

11:00 AM Bradley Pentelute (MIT)

TBD

12:00 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Jolene Reid (UBC)

De-Risking Organic Synthesis with Practical Machine Learning

2:30 PM TBD (Merck)

TBD

3:00 PM Break

3:20 PM TBD (Biogen)

TBD

3:50 PM Yang Yang (UCSB)

New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis

4:50 PM Closing Remarks

5:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Close of Reception and Event

Questions? Please contact a member of the Organizing Committee.

John Andjaba andjaba_john@lilly.com
Matthew Campbell matthew.campbell@takeda.com
Alan Cherney alan.cherney@sanofi.com
Emily Corcoran emily.corcoran@merck.com
Heather Johnson hjohns02@amgen.com
Berenice Lewandowski Berenice_Lewandowski@vrtx.com
Olga Mukhina olga.mukhina@novartis.com
Suzie Opalka suzie.opalka@biogen.com
Kedwin Rosa Pagan kedwin.rosapagan@biogen.com
Scott Plummer, scott.plummer@novartis.com