Jennifer Lyn Roizen is an American chemist who is a professor at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. Roizen studies C-H functionalization, antibiotics and selective ion channel inhibitors. She joined the International Advisory Board of

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in 2021.

Early life and education

Roizen was an undergraduate student at

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim ...

, where she was first introduced to asymmetric synthesis. She was awarded the James F. Skinner Prize for scholarship. She moved to the

California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small group of institutes ...

for graduate studies, where she worked under the supervision of

Brian Stoltz Brian M. Stoltz is currently a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is chemical synthesis with an emphasis on expanding the scope of allylic alkylation for the preparation of complex ...

. Her research considered enantioselective synthesis of ineleganolide. Her work led to the development of asymmetric ketone alkylation to form C(α)-tetrasubstituted carbonyl compounds.

Research and career

Roizen remained on the West Coast for postdoctoral research, where she joined the laboratories of Justin Du Bois. Her research considered the intermolecular amination of tertiary C–H bonds. Roizen was appointed to the faculty at

in 2013. Her research considers free radical reactions. In 2017, she was awarded the Thieme Chemistry Journal's Award and was named one of ChemComm's Emerging Investigators. She was awarded the 2020 Duke University Dean's Award.

Selected publications

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References

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