Guest Speaker – Organic (CHEM 761) – Dr. Natasha Kablaoui

Bio
Natasha Kablaoui, Ph.D. is a medicinal chemist at Novartis in the Global Discovery Chemistry group. Since joining Novartis in 2018, she has focused on applying her chemistry expertise to drug modalities on the interface of small molecules and biologics. Prior to joining Novartis, Natasha worked as a medicinal chemist at Pfizer mainly developing small molecule therapeutics for indications in neuroscience, rare disease and internal medicine. Natasha received her undergraduate degree at Princeton University and her Ph.D. at MIT under the tutelage of Prof. Steve Buchwald. She also did postdoctoral training at Harvard under the guidance of Prof. Stuart Schreiber.