David Wang

Mr. David Wang, a student in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Ph.D. program at Rutgers, is the 2007-08 Celgene Drug Discovery Fellow. As an undergraduate at Cornell, David made important contributions in the field of epoxide polymerization catalysis. Epoxides are readily available molecules that could potentially be used to make polymers with highly desirable properties for a range of bio-medical and other applications. David will be working with Rutgers chemistry and pharmaceutical science faculty members on carbon-carbon (C-C) reductive elimination, a key step by which transition metals catalyze C-C bond formation (or C-C coupling). The formation of C-C bonds is the most fundamentally important process in the synthesis of organic molecules, including pharmaceuticals. Transition-metal catalyzed C-C coupling has revolutionized the synthesis of new pharmaceuticals and drug candidates.