GENENTECH GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM IN CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Genentech is pleased to share an exciting opportunity for outstanding 4th year Ph.D. graduate students from U.S. universities in the fields of organic synthesis, chemical biology, and computational chemistry.

Our annual Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research recognizes promising young scientists while highlighting career opportunities in pharmaceutical research and development.

The two-day program, scheduled for May 2025 will be hosted jointly by the departments of Discovery and Process Chemistry.

Dr. Dan Sutherlin
Senior Vice President, Small Molecule Drug Discovery
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Dr. Tim Heffron
Vice President, Small Molecule Discovery Chemistry
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Dr. Francis Gosselin
Vice President, Synthetic Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences
Dr. Chong Han
Senior Director, Small Molecule Process Chemistry
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The two-day event will include:

  • Research award symposium, including talks from award recipients and Genentech scientists
  • Keynote seminar from a leading early-career chemistry professor
  • Distinguished Career Lecture from an eminent professor
  • Tour of the Genentech South San Francisco research laboratories
  • Social/networking activities
  • Honorarium for award recipients

Apply Today:

Interested 4th year graduate students from U.S. universities are encouraged to submit a CV (no more than 3 pages) and a research summary (no more than 2 pages).

Applications should be submitted as a single PDF document with identifying name and institution in the file description (example: “Surname-Firstname-Institution”).

Click here to submit 2025 application.

Applications for 2025 must be received by December 31, 2024 for consideration.

Finalists will be contacted in January 2025 and awardees will be notified in March for the spring symposium (May 12-13, 2025). For more information, please email [email protected].

Congratulations to our 2024 Graduate Student Awardees!

  • Ellie Plachinski, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Noah Bissonnette, Princeton University
  • Sabina Maurer, University of Pennsylvania
  • Kaitlyn Keasler, Cornell University
  • Jason Wang, University of California, LA
  • Jordan Thompson, California Institute of Technology
  • Nicole Curnutt, Harvard University
  • Arismel Tena-Meza, University of California, LA

2024 Distinguished Career Lecturer

Professor John F. Hartwig
Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

2024 Keynote Lecturer

Professor Sid Winkerson-Hill
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill