PEOPLE

Current Members    |    Matthew David Disney, PhD    |    Alumni

Positions

• Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Scientific Advisory Board, The University at Albany The RNA Institute
• Founder and Chair of Scientific Advisory Board, Expansion Therapeutics

Education

• Grade 1-8, Saint Ursula School, Baltimore, Maryland
• Grade 9-12, Calvert Hall College, Towson, Maryland
• B.S., Chemistry, The University of Maryland, College Park, 1997
• M.S., Physical Chemistry, The University of Rochester, 1999
• Ph.D., Chemistry, The University of Rochester, 2003
• Post Doctoral Fellow: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich – Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 2002-2004

Awards and Honors

• Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry (with Dr. Alicia Angelbello). American Chemical Society, 2021
• Research Program Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorder & Stroke (NINDS), 2020-2028
• The Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in the Physical Sciences, Chemical Biology, 2019
• BioFlorida’s Weaver H. Gaines Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2018
• The Barry Cohen Prize, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, 2018
• Scripps Florida Outstanding Mentor, 2017
• NIH Director’s Pionneer Award, 2016
• Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2016
• Blavatnik Young Scientists Award Finalist, 2015
• David W. Robertson Award in Medicinal Chemistry.  Awarded by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry for having a primary role in the discovery of a novel therapeutic agents, targets, theoretical concepts in medicinal chemistry or drug discovery, and making a significant scientific discovery that enhances the field of medicinal chemistry. 2014
• Excellence Award in the field of Research in Science and Technology.  India-US Chamber of Commerce, Inc., South Florida.  2013
• Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.  Awarded by the American Chemical Society’s Biological Chemistry Division for outstanding research in biological chemistry of unusual merit and independence of thought and originality.  2013
• The American Chemical Society Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry David Y. Gin Award. 2011
• University at Buffalo, Exceptional Scholar – Young Investigator Award. June 2011
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. August 2010 – July 2015
• Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award. July 2008 – June 2011
• NYSTAR JD Watson Young Investigator Award. July 2007 – June 2009
• Camille & Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award. September 2005 – August 2010
• Second Year Roche Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich). June 2005 January 2005
• Roche Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zürich). June 2003 – May 2004
• Arnold Weissberger Memorial Fellow; University of Rochester. 2001 – 2002
• Elon Huntington Hooker Memorial Fellow; University of Rochester. 2000 – 2001
• Sherman-Clark Memorial Fellow; University of Rochester. 1997 – 1999
• Eric A. Batista Award; University of Maryland, College Park. Award for most outstanding undergraduate research. 1997
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellow; University of Maryland, College Park. 1995 – 1997