Ehsan Fereyduni

Ehsan earned his B.Sc. in chemistry from Rajaee University (Tehran, Iran). He then entered the inorganic M.Sc. program at Kharazmi University (Tehran, Iran) and joined the laboratory of Prof. Hossein Aghabozorg, where his research focused on synthesis of metal complexes with novel formamide and triazine multidentate ligands and computer molecular modeling in an integrated fashion. Ehsan is currently an organic chemistry Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Alexander Grenning’s research lab at the University of Florida. His doctoral work has focused on devising a simple and standardized synthetic route centered about the development of new Cope rearrangements to access complex molecules for drug discovery. Molecules of interest include cycloheptene-containing terpenes and complex analogs of Vorinostat. Ehsan has published one US patent, two chemical education books, 19 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented his research at several conferences. In 2017, he was also selected as the winner of the ChemDraw Innovation Challenge for his creative ideas to further develop the premier chemical drawing platform.