Jacob Sorrentino

In 2016, he earned his B.S. in biology at Nevada State College, where he was a member of Dr. Zachary Woydziak's group and worked on the construction fluorinated fluorophores utilizing heterocycle chemistry. Transitioning into graduate school, he chose to pursue medicinal chemistry at The University of Kansas, where he joined the lab of Dr. Ryan Altman. His work focuses primarily on development of synthetic methodology and the application of organofluorine chemistry toward the design of therapeutics and biological probes.