About the Speaker:

Bio:

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Califonia at Berkeley

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California at Irvine

Postdoctoral research in Bioorganic Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

The Arora group is a bioorganic chemistry group in the Department of Chemistry at New York University.  Research in the lab utilizes expertise in organic chemistry to develop synthetic inhibitors of protein-protein and protein-nucleic acids interactions, and catalysts for peptide and protein synthesis.