Sanford Lab

Celebrating 20 years of remarkable scientific excellence, mentorship, and development of visionary trailblazers. Cheers to Sanford Lab’s 20 years! Congratulations, Melanie!

Third-year Emily presented her AMAZING research at the Latine Research Week hosted by Puentes at UofM. Congrats on an incredible poster, Emily! 🪅🎉😍 #happylatineresearchweek

Blast from Melanie's past! Sanford Lab celebrating the National Girls and Women in Sports Day at the UofM women's gymnastics meet last weekend! #GoBlue

New candidates just dropped! Congrats to our amazing second-years for passing their gateway exams! We're so proud of you! #dreamteam

#TBThursday #IronFist #nickel #cobalt

It's been a while! More updates coming soon, but we wanted to share this first: Huge congrats to our transition-metal complex whisperer Dr. Emily Nolan for defending her PhD back in November! 🍾🎉 Doc Nolan is starting a postdoc at Pfizer. We already miss you very much!

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New candidate just dropped! Congrats to Emily Jimenez for passing her gateway exam. We look forward to following your journey in exploring the utility of modular in situ photocatalysts 💡🪇🥳#lightofthelab

Congrats to our newest Dr. Alex Bunnell!!! 🪇🥳🪇We enjoyed hearing about your work on the mechanism-guided development of group 10-mediated reactions. Dr. Bunnell will be joining the team at Snapdragon 🐉. #CHactivATE

Congrats to our very own Emily Nolan for being awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!! So well-deserved! 🥂🥳🎉

Sanford Lab students presented their research at the Latine Research Week hosted by Puentes at UMich. Amazing job!! Congrats Abdias (YR 3), Ila (YR 4), and Sabrina (YR 4)🥳🪇💃 #happylatineresearchweek

Congrats Dr. Jonathan Hall on a fantastic defense about the synthesis of organofluorine molecules via non-traditional bond activation. Jonathan will be a post-doc fellow at @boehringerus in the catalysis group. 🥳🍾#fluorinATE

@MichiganChem on ice fun continued ☃️🏂

Sanford lab and friends having some fun on the ice with @MichiganChem this past weekend! ⛸️🧊

A fun collaboration with @Sanford_Lab and Neurock group! The 4th paper of 2025! @UtahChemistry

Congrats to Sabrina Reich and Dr. En-Chih Liu on their recent publication! 🪇🥂🥳 Such a huge accomplishment!! In collaboration with the Luo lab and Neurock lab. Learn more about Electro-oxidative Deoxyfluorination of Arenes with NEt3·3HF. @NSF_CSOE pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Perri Prestwood went to Sewanee: The University of the South and worked in Dr. Ron Pongdee's lab. Fun fact, Perri played varsity softball through college! ⚾️ She'll be working in radiofluorination! Happy to have you this semester!

Vico Wang went to Emory University and worked in Dr. Cora MacBeth's lab. Fun fact about Vico, she has a film minor and writes screenplays!📔 She'll be doing organometallics studies with Iron🤘.

New Year new rotators! 💫 This semester we are excited to have two incredible rotators Vico Wang and Perri Prestwood.

Happy holidays and happy new year from the Sanford Lab! 🎊

And finally, congrats to Dr. Gu on delivering an amazing thesis defense on Advancements in Modern Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization Reactions. We are so proud of you and wish you the best in your next endeavors. #PhDone #CHActivATE