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Justin Mohr, PhD
Translational Oncology Research Program
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Email: jtmohr@uic.edu
Justin Mohr, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He has laboratory experience in the areas of synthetic methodology development, transition metal catalysis, natural product synthesis, and medicinal chemistry. His research group is particularly interested in developing new bond-forming reactions that solve specific problems en route to biologically active target molecules and ultimately improve synthetic efficiency. Furthermore, novel transformations discovered during synthetic efforts are uniquely poised for systematic explorations of chemical space around privileged core structures in collaboration with chemical biology laboratories. These synthetic strategies are useful for the development of pharmacologically active compounds with improved activity, selectivity, or physical properties relative to the lead natural product compounds.
Education
- PhD, California Institute of Technology
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Research Focus
- Translational Oncology
- Synthetic Methodology Development
- Transition Metal Catalysis
- Natural Product Synthesis
- Medicinal Chemistry