Steven Silverman

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Process Chemist at #MerckChemistry, ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Past Program Chair, 2025 Chair-Elect, ACS Fellow

Let’s be clear, any asterisk RFK puts on his newfound pro-vaccine stance (“we just need to ask questions”) tells us exactly what his HHS intentions are. He is profoundly anti-science and has zero credibility. One of the more telling moments from today’s stream of lies… www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/p...

Sanders asks RFK Jr. about his former org. selling anti-vaccine baby onesies | CNN Politics

During the Senate confirmation hearing for HHS nominee Robert Kennedy Jr., Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questioned Kennedy’s support for the Children’s Health Defense, an organization that Kennedy chair...

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Agency heads must ask employees “if they know of any efforts to disguise (DEI) programs by using coded or imprecise language.” Sounds like he’s still a dictator on day 2. Who would have guessed?

So excited to see this published! Thionucleosides can be incredibly challenging to make due to the need for oxidation state changes at sulfur during the synthesis. Collaborating with the Britton group, we’ve been able to make them using a short, selective sequence! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A flexible and scalable synthesis of 4′-thionucleosides

4′-Thionucleosides (thNAs) are synthetic nucleoside analogues that have attracted attention as leads for drug discovery in oncology and virology. Here we report a de novo thNA synthesis that relies on...

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Nominations for the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award are now being accepted! This year we’ve partnered with the Divisions of Medicinal and Analytical Chemistry to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of industrial research. Nominate a colleague today! www.organicdivision.org/earlycareeri...

Early Career Investigator Award - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

The Early Career Investigator Award Symposium is for investigators who are in a non-academic setting and are no more than 10 years into their career.

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