WCC Rising Star Symposium 2025

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WCC Rising Star Symposium

Monday, March 24, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT
San Diego Convention Center
Room 29A
San Diego, CA

Lorena Tribe, Women Chemists Committee Chair

Danniebelle Haase, WCC Program Chair

Linda Shimizu, Presider

8:05 AM – 8:27 AM

Designing molecular crystals for solar energy storage and heat release

Grace Han<span

Brandeis University

8:27 AM – 8:49 AM

Dynamic behaviors in organic solids and a first-generation student’s path to an academic career

Kristin Hutchins

University of Missouri

8:49:00 AM – 9:11 AM

Organometallic single-molecule magnets containing radicals and bismuth

Selvan Demir

Michigan State University

9:11 AM – 9:33 AM

Metrology and kidney disease: From bench to bedside

Ashley Green

National Institute of Standards and Technology

9:33 AM – 9:55 AM

Selected stories from process chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry

Sarah Steinhardt

Bristol Myers Squibb Co.

10:10 AM – 10:32 AM

Engineering Hemocompatible and antimicrobial polymer biointerfaces to improve medical devices

Elizabeth Brisbois

University of Georgia

10:32 AM – 10:54 AM

Biomedical research at Lyon: Highs, lows, and PUI punchlines

Irosha Nawarathne

Lyon College

10:54 AM – 11:16 AM

Chemical probes for biological discoveries

Monika Raj

Emory University

11:16 AM – 11:38 AM

Advancing chemical development for pharmaceutical research: Leveraging mechanistic investigation and process analytical technology

Yining Ji Chen

Merck & Co., Inc.

11:38 AM – 12:00 PM

Thermal interface materials in electronics

Yan Zheng

The Dow Chemical Company

If you have any questions, please send an email to WCC@acs.org.