Alexander M. Spokoyny

Alexander M. Spokoyny
Education	University of California, Los Angeles Northwestern University
Scientific career
Institutions	California NanoSystems Institute University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral advisor	Chad Mirkin

Alexander M. Spokoyny is an American chemist and a professor in chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA and a faculty member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).[1][2] He is currently a department chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA.

Education

Spokoyny has started his research career as an undergraduate student at UCLA working in the laboratory of M. Frederick Hawthorne. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2011 from Northwestern University in inorganic and materials chemistry working with Chad Mirkin. Spokoyny then conducted a post-doctoral research stint at MIT in chemical biology until 2014 working jointly with Stephen L. Buchwald and Bradley L. Pentelute on peptide stapling[3] and organometallic bioconjugation chemistry.[4]

Career

Spokoyny group's research encompasses an interdisciplinary approach focusing on pressing problems in chemistry, biology and materials science with emphasis on developing new molecular cluster chemistry.[5][6][7] Spokoyny has also been involved in teaching at California prison facilities as a part of UCLA Prison Education program.[8]

Awards

Spokoyny is a recipient of multiple national and international awards including:

• American Chemical Society Inorganic Young Investigator Award (2011)
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Prize for Young Chemists (2012)[9]
• 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2016)[10]
• Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) Talented 12 (2016)[11]
• Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the NIH (2017)[12]
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2017)[12]
• Cottrell Scholar from Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2018)[13]
• NSF CAREER Award (2019)[14]
• Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2020)[15]
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2020)[16]

References

1. "Spokoyny".
2. "Alexander M. Spokoyny". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
3. Spokoyny, Alexander M.; Zou, Yekui; Ling, Jingjing J.; Yu, Hongtao; Lin, Yu-Shan; Pentelute, Bradley L. (2013-04-24). "A Perfluoroaryl-Cysteine SNAr Chemistry Approach to Unprotected Peptide Stapling". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (16): 5946–5949. doi:10.1021/ja400119t. ISSN 0002-7863. PMC 3675880. PMID 23560559.
4. Vinogradova, Ekaterina V.; Zhang, Chi; Spokoyny, Alexander M.; Pentelute, Bradley L.; Buchwald, Stephen L. (October 2015). "Organometallic palladium reagents for cysteine bioconjugation". Nature. 526 (7575): 687–691. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..687V. doi:10.1038/nature15739. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 4809359. PMID 26511579.
5. Qian, Elaine A.; Wixtrom, Alex I.; Axtell, Jonathan C.; Saebi, Azin; Jung, Dahee; Rehak, Pavel; Han, Yanxiao; Moully, Elamar Hakim; Mosallaei, Daniel; Chow, Sylvia; Messina, Marco S. (April 2017). "Atomically precise organomimetic cluster nanomolecules assembled via perfluoroaryl-thiol SNAr chemistry". Nature Chemistry. 9 (4): 333–340. Bibcode:2017NatCh...9..333Q. doi:10.1038/nchem.2686. ISSN 1755-4349. PMC 5424550. PMID 28485398.
6. Jung, Dahee; Saleh, Liban M. A.; Berkson, Zachariah J.; El-Kady, Maher F.; Hwang, Jee Youn; Mohamed, Nahla; Wixtrom, Alex I.; Titarenko, Ekaterina; Shao, Yanwu; McCarthy, Kassandra; Guo, Jian (April 2018). "A molecular cross-linking approach for hybrid metal oxides". Nature Materials. 17 (4): 341–348. Bibcode:2018NatMa..17..341J. doi:10.1038/s41563-018-0021-9. ISSN 1476-4660. OSTI 1429806. PMID 29507417. S2CID 205565397.
7. "Chemical & Engineering News celebrates 'The Talented 12': Young science trailblazers". American Chemical Society. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
8. "NSF Award Search: Award # 1846849 - CAREER: Phosphorescent Organic Light Emitting Diode Materials Featuring Multidentate Carborane-Based Ligands". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
9. "Winners of 2012 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists". Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC. 34 (6): 17–18. 2012-11-01. doi:10.1515/ci.2012.34.6.17b. ISSN 1365-2192.
10. "Chemist Alexander Spokoyny receives 3M award for new-materials research". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
11. "Alex Spokoyny named to 'Talented Twelve' by American Chemical Society". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
12. "Four UCLA faculty members selected for 2017 Sloan Fellowships". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
13. "Professor named 2018 Cottrell Scholar honoring early-career scientists". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
14. "Chemist wins NSF's top honor for junior faculty". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
15. "Previous Winners - Thieme Chemistry - Georg Thieme Verlag". Thieme. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
16. "Professor recognized for his scholarship and contributions to education". UCLA. Retrieved 2022-04-02.