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Madeleine Kieffer

Associate Director, PPM

Hometown:

Milwaukee, WI

Education:

B.A. in chemistry, Wellesley College; Ph.D. in organic chemistry, Caltech

Previous Experience:

Before insitro, I was a medicinal chemist at Amgen and Merck.

Key Papers:

Copper-Catalyzed Diastereoselective Arylation of Tryptophan Derivatives: Total Synthesis of (+)-Naseseazines A and B

Enantioselective Synthesis of Tryptophan Derivatives by a Tandem Friedel–Crafts Conjugate Addition/Asymmetric Protonation Reaction

A copper-catalyzed Arylation of Tryptamines for the direct synthesis of Aryl Pyrroloindolines

A Mild and General Larock Indolization Protocol for the Preparation of Unnatural Tryptophans