Chao Qi Receives 2015 Vertex Scholar Award
Mr. Chao Qi is the recipient of the 2015 Vertex Scholar Award. He is a 4th year graduate student in the group of Prof. John A. Porco. Chao was selected based on his demonstrated excellence in organic chemistry. He has developed extremely elegant and enabling synthetic methodology towards two different natural products, making reactions work, and building complex natural product architectures. Highly productive, he has two major publications, with a third manuscript nearing completion. In addition, Chao plays a leadership role in the Porco laboratory and is currently mentoring an undergraduate researcher.
The 2015 award is made possible by Vertex Pharmaceuticals which has provided this generous graduate fellowship in organic chemistry for an exceptional 2nd, 3rd or 4th year graduate student in our Ph.D. program. The BU-Vertex Educational Partnership Program, established in 2010, offers scholarships funded by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company-based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.