Spring 2026 WCC/Lilly Emerging Talent Award Winners Poster Session

WCC/Lilly Emerging Talent Award Winners Poster Session

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET

Omni at Centennial Park | International Prefunction Lobby 1

Abby Cardoza – Colorado School of Mines 

Expanding Lithium Ion Transport Pathways Through Cation Local Order in Earth- Abundant Halospinels (INOR)

Caitlyn Clark – Auburn University 

ient absorption spectroelectrochemistry of a polymer electrode (PHYS) 

Stephanie Diaz Feeney – Fordham University 

Characterization of New 1,10-pyreneimide Emitters (ORGN) 

Ramsey Goodner – Yale University 

C–H activation and sequential addition to dienes and imines for the synthesis of ß[1]quaternary amines (ORGN) 

Isabella Jacobsen – University of Minnesota 

Harnessing tissue-restricted E3 ligase scaffolding protein MAGEA11 for cancer-specific protein degradation (MEDI)

Sarah Newkirk – University of Virginia 

Small Molecule Modulation of MHC-I Surface Expression: A Click Chemistry- Based Discovery Approach (BIOL) 

Mimi Lavin – Columbia University 

Quantifying reactivity rules in radical-mediated C–H functionalization (ORGN) 

Diane Rafizadeh – University of Pennsylvania 

Collagen as a Chemical Tool: Peptide Probes of the Collagen Interactome (BIOL) 

Alondra Sanchez – Northwestern University 

CRISPR Screen Identifies BAP1 as a Deubiquitinase Regulating SPIN4 Stability (BIOL) 

Sydney Stewart – Howard University 

Ciprofloxacin-Dipeptide Conjugates for Oral Drug Delivery Applications (MEDI) 

Eli Lilly and Company is acknowledged for its support of the WCC/Eli Lilly Emerging Talent Award program 

For more information, please send an email to wcc@acs.org.