Graduates walk to the Scripps Research commencement ceremony in 2019. This year, the ceremony will be held online.
Scripps Research awards doctoral degrees to class of 2020, celebrates graduates’ diverse scientific accomplishments
The annual commencement ceremony will be held virtually in July.
May 15, 2020
LA JOLLA, CA and JUPITER, FL — Scripps Research today awarded doctoral degrees to 44 graduate students who completed the rigorous academic and research requirements of the institute’s Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences. The degree recipients comprise the 28th graduating class of Scripps Research’s graduate program.
In lieu of the traditional annual commencement ceremony on the La Jolla campus, a virtual celebration for the class of 2020 will be held in July in consideration of public health restrictions imposed in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“We congratulate all of our 2020 graduates on their spectacular journey at Scripps Research, where each of them contributed their boundless energy and passion to expand scientific knowledge and ultimately, improve human health,” said Phil Dawson, PhD, dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies at Scripps Research, and a professor in the Department of Chemistry. “Even though we are unable to celebrate our graduates in person this year, it’s gratifying to know that so many of these outstanding young scientists are already hard at work investigating potential causes of and treatments for COVID-19 and other diseases that afflict so many.”
In addition to the online graduation event this summer, the Skaggs Graduate School will feature profiles of its graduates in a “virtual commencement walk” to appear on the Scripps Research website and social media channels in coming months. The goal is to engage the greater community in the graduates’ diverse areas of biomedical research and career aspirations.
Ranked among the top 10 doctoral programs of its kind in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the Skaggs Graduate School of Chemical and Biological Sciences at Scripps Research offers training in chemistry, chemical biology, neuroscience, immunology, cell biology and other biomedical research areas.
The program immerses students in intensive laboratory research while offering a customizable course curriculum that allows students to match individual research interests while exploring multidisciplinary topics at the interface of chemistry and biology.
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Student |
Advisor |
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Gabriel Brighty |
Jeffery W. Kelly, PhD |
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Jacob Bruggemann |
Andrew I. Su, PhD |
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Mei Lan Chen |
Mark S. Sundrud, PhD |
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Yanqiao Chen |
Jin-Quan Yu, PhD |
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Wesley Cochrane |
Brian M. Paegel, PhD |
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Matthew Costales |
Matthew D. Disney, PhD |
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Christopher Cottrell |
Andrew B. Ward, PhD |
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Robert Demoret |
Ryan A. Shenvi, PhD |
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Yisong Deng |
James R. Williamson, PhD |
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Joseph Derosa |
Keary M. Engle, PhD |
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Vivian Dien |
Floyd E. Romesberg, PhD; Peter G. Schultz, PhD |
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Chad Dufaud |
Michael G. McHeyzer-Williams, PhD |
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Emil Fischer |
Floyd E. Romesberg, PhD; Christoph Rader, PhD |
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Samantha Green |
Ryan A. Shenvi, PhD |
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David Hill |
Donna G. Blackmond, PhD |
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Taka-Aki Ichu |
Benjamin F. Cravatt, PhD |
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Margarete Johnson |
Wendy L. Havran, PhD |
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Yuzuru Kanda |
Phil S. Baran, PhD |
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Murat Kilinc |
Gavin R. Rumbaugh, PhD |
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Liam King |
Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD |
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Tong Shu Li |
Andrew I. Su, PhD |
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Zhen Liu |
Keary M. Engle, PhD |
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Gencheng Li |
K. Barry Sharpless, PhD |
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Michael Mayers |
Andrew I. Su, PhD |
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Joseph McGraw |
Wendy L. Havran, PhD; Linda A. Sherman, PhD |
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Bartek Nogal |
Andrew B. Ward, PhD |
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Hojoon Park |
Jin-Quan Yu, PhD |
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Ryan Paxman |
Jeffery W. Kelly, PhD |
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Colby Sandate |
Gabriel C. Lander, PhD |
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Sergey Shnitkind |
Peter E. Wright, PhD |
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Vyom Shukla |
Dale L. Boger, PhD |
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Sierra Simpson |
Olivier George, PhD |
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Keita Tanaka |
Jin Quan Yu, PhD |
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Ryan Thompson |
Andrew I. Su, PhD |
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Megan Vaughan |
Katja A. Lamia, PhD |
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Pritha Verma |
Jin-Quan Yu, PhD |
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Mengyu Wu |
Andrew B. Ward, PhD |
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Yao Xiao |
Ian MacRae, PhD |
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Janice Xu |
Dennis W. Wolan, PhD |
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Ke Yang |
Peter E. Wright, PhD |
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Anzhi Yao |
Peter G. Schultz, PhD |
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Ai Zhang |
Jeanne F. Loring, PhD |
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Yorke Zhang |
Floyd E. Romesberg, PhD; Brian M. Paegel, PhD |
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Qinheng Zheng |
K. Barry Sharpless, PhD |
For more information, contact press@scripps.edu