Jonathan A Ellman

Jonathan A. Ellman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University. He received his B.S. degree from MIT and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University under the direction of David Evans. He carried out postdoctoral research with Peter Schultz at the University of California at Berkeley and in 1992 became a member of the chemistry faculty at the same institution. In 2010, he joined the chemistry and pharmacology faculty at Yale University. His laboratory focuses on the development of practical and efficient new synthesis methods and on the design of chemical tools for biological inquiry.