Ryan A. Shenvi, Ph.D.

Professor | Department of Chemistry | Scripps Research

  • Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, 2019-present

  • Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, 2014-2019

  • Assistant Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, 2010-2014

  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (E.J. Corey), 2008-2010

  • Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute (P.S. Baran), 2003-2008

  • B.S., Pennsylvania State University (R.L. Funk), 1999-2003

* Image taken at Balticum Organicum Syntheticum (BOS), Riga, Latvia: July 3-6, 2016

Awards and Honors

  • Mukaiyama Award, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Japan), 2024

  • Royal Chemical Society ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator, 2022-2023

  • Tetrahedron Editor’s Choice Award (Elsevier), 2021

  • E. J. Corey Award (ACS) (2021)

  • Blavatnik Award Finalist, Chemistry (2020)

  • Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award (2019)

  • Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Japan) Lectureship Award (2017)

  • NPR Emerging Investigator (2016)

  • Eli Lilly Grantee Award (2015)

  • Novartis Early Career Award (2014)

  • BMS Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award (2014)

  • NSF Career Award (2014)

  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2014)

  • Baxter Foundation Young Investigator Award (2013)

  • Amgen Young Investigator Award (2013)

  • Boehringer Ingelheim New Investigator Award (2012)

  • Eli Lilly New Faculty Award (2011)

  • NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellow, Harvard University (2008-2010)

  • Roche Excellence in Chemistry Award (2007)

  • Lesly Starr Shelton Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (2007)

  • NDSEG Predoctoral Fellow, TSRI (2005-2008)

  • Poster Session Winner, TSRI Scientific Retreat (2006)

  • PSU Sponsors Poster Session, Undergraduate Winner (2003)

  • Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2002)

  • John and Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship (2001)

  • William G. and Elizabeth K. Leitzell Scholarship (2000)

  • National Merit Corporate Scholarship (1999–2003)

Other Activities

  • Angewandte Chemie Advisory Editor, Scientific Advisory Committee, 2021–

  • Editor, Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (EROS), (2020– )

  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, Accounts of Chemical Research 2021–

  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, ACS Central Science 2020­–

Scripps’ Kellogg Graduate School Faculty Member

  • Classics in Total Synthesis, 2011–present

  • Modern Organic Synthesis, 2012–present

  • Physical Organic Chemistry, 2020–present

  • Introduction to the Scientific Method (single lecture), 2016–present

  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, Tetrahedron Chem (Open Access) 2021–