László Kürti has completed his PhD under the guidance of Professor Amos B Smith III at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 and completed his Post-doctoral studies at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate Professor EJ Corey. In 2010, he began his independent career at UT South-western Medical Center (Dallas, TX) and, in June 2015, he moved to Rice University (Houston, TX) as an Associate Professor of Chemistry. He is the author of three widely used textbooks/reference books and recently received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2010), the Amgen Young Investigators’ Award (2014), the JSPS Fellowship (2014), NSF Career Award (2015) as well the Biotage Young Principle Investigator Award (2015). László Kürti has completed his PhD under the guidance of Professor Amos B Smith III at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 and completed his Post-doctoral studies at Harvard University with Nobel Laureate Professor EJ Corey. In 2010, he began his independent career at UT South-western Medical Center (Dallas, TX) and, in June 2015, he moved to Rice University (Houston, TX) as an Associate Professor of Chemistry. He is the author of three widely used textbooks/reference books and recently received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2010), the Amgen Young Investigators’ Award (2014), the JSPS Fellowship (2014), NSF Career Award (2015) as well the Biotage Young Principle Investigator Award (2015).

Medicinal chemistry