Eric Kohn

Eric is a Ph.D. candidate and founding member of Jeff Martell’s lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on new methods of modifying, discovering, and using DNA-based receptors known as aptamers and has been supported by the NSF-GRFP. As an undergraduate at Rowan University, he studied peptide biophysics in the Caputo lab, at Longevity Biotech (Philadelphia, PA), and through an NSF-REU at Syracuse University. Eric has used his positions in the ACS’s Division of Biological Chemistry and R&D Council of New Jersey to advocate for mentoring in STEM. Outside the lab, he loves to learn about food, flags, and foraging.