Positions
- Assistant Professor
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                Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
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Houston, TX US 
- Assistant Professor
 - 
                Department of Pathology
Center for Drug Discovery
Houston, Texas USA 
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
 - 
                Chemistry
Rice University
Houston, Texas USA 
- Member
 - 
                Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Houston, Texas United States 
Addresses
- BCM-Cullen Building (Office)
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                  Room: BCMC-286A
Houston, TX 77030
United States 
Education
- BS from Howard University
 - District of Columbia, United States
 
- PhD from North Carolina State University
 - Raleigh, North Carolina United States
 
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts United States
 
Honors & Awards
- Scholar
 - Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (01/2014 - 12/2014)
 
- Minority Predoctoral Fellowship
 - NIH (01/2000 - 12/2004)
 
- U-Star Undergraduate Fellowship Program
 - NIH (01/1998 - 12/1998)
 
- Undergraduate of the Year
 - District of Columbia Institute of Chemists (01/1997 - 12/1997)
 
- Scholarship
 - Lubrizol (01/1996 - 12/1997)
 
- Honors
 - Howard University Department of Chemistry (01/1995 - 12/1998)
 
- Scholarship
 - Monsanto (01/1995 - 12/1996)
 
- Trustee Scholarship
 - Howard University (01/1993 - 12/1995)
 
Professional Interests
- Synthetic organic chemistry
 - Fragment-based drug discovery
 - Diversity-oriented synthesis
 - Medicinal chemistry
 - Chemical biology
 
Websites
Selected Publications
- Young DW, Comins DL "." Org. Lett. 2005 Dec 8;7(25):5661-5664. Pubmed PMID:
 - Kelly AR, Wei J, Kesavan S, Marie JC, Windmon N, Young DW, and Marcaurelle LA "." Org. Lett.. 2009;11(11):2257-2260. Pubmed PMID:
 - Young DW "." Nat. Chem. Bio.. 2010;6(3):174-175. Pubmed PMID:
 - Dancik V, Seiler KP, Young DW, Schreiber SL, and Clemons PA. "." J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2010;132(27):9259-61. Pubmed PMID:
 
- Marcaurelle LA et al. "." J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2010;132(47):16962-76. Pubmed PMID:
 - Hung AW, Ramek A, Wang Y, Kaya T, Wilson JA, Clemons PA, and Young DW. "." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2011;108(17):6799-804. Pubmed PMID:
 - Wang Y, Jimenez M, Hansen AS, Raiber EA, Schreiber SL, and Young DW. "." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011;133(24):9196-9. Pubmed PMID:
 - Pandya BA, Dandapani S, Duvall JR, Rowley A, Mulrooney CA, Ryba T, Dombrowski M, Harton M, Young DW, and Marcaurelle LA. "." Tetrahedron. 2011;67(34):6131-67. Pubmed PMID:
 - Zhong C, Wang Y, Hung AW, Schreiber SL, and Young DW. "." Org. Lett.. 2011;13(20):5556-5559. Pubmed PMID:
 - Wang Y, Jimenez J, Sheehan P, Zhong C, Hung AW, Tam CP, and Young DW. "." Org. Lett.. 2013;15(6):1218-21. Pubmed PMID:
 - Yuan Y, Hartland K, Boskovic Z, Wang Y, Walpita D, Zhong C, and Young DW, Kim Y-K, Tolliday NJ, Schreiber SL, and Wagner BK. "." Chem. Biol.. 2013;20(12):1513-1522. Pubmed PMID:
 - Zhong C, Wang Y, O鈥橦erin C, and Young DW. "." ACS Catalysis. 2013;15(6):643-46.
 
Funding
- Recruitment Award
 - $2,000,000.00 ( 03/01/2014 - 03/01/2018 ) Grant funding from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
 
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