Join Yale Chemistry for a Silliman Organic/Biochemistry Seminar with Amit Choudhary, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Title: Protein editing using small molecules
In 2016, Amit started as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and he also holds appointments at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Broad Institute. The efforts of Amit’s group have been recognized by Burroughs Wellcome Fund’s Career Award at the Scientific Interface, NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, DARPA’s SAFE GENES and HEALR awards, Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, ICBS Young Chemical Biologist Award, and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Innovation Award. Amit is the scientific founder of Photys Therapeutics that leverages the group’s findings on bifunctional molecules that induce or remove post-translational modifications.
Date: November 15, 2023
Time: 4 pm
Location: SCL 160
Faculty Host: David Spiegel
This seminar is generously sponsored by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund