Neal K. Devaraj
Neal Devaraj is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Murray Goodman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). A native of Southern California, he attended college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he performed research in the lab of Prof. Moungi Bawendi. He earned his PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University in the labs of Profs. James Collman and Christopher Chidsey. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Prof. Ralph Weissleder, he joined UCSD. His research interests are in artificial cells, lipid membranes, and bioconjugation.
2025 - Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
2022 - Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
2022 - Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award
2021 - Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award
2019 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award
2019 - Guggenheim Fellowship in the Natural Sciences
2019 - Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry
2018 - Blavatnik National Laureate in Chemistry
2018 - Magomedov-Shcherbinina Memorial Prize
2017 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry
2016 - National Fresenius Award
2016 - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Selected Awards/Honors
2007 - 2011
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
2002 - 2007
Stanford University
Ph.D. Chemistry
1998 - 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Chemistry & B.S. Biology