Funding

We are grateful to the agencies and foundations below that have supported our research.

Current Funding

• Interrogating Properties and Reaction Pathways of Aryl "onium" Reagents to Reveal New Chemical Functions. National Science Foundation (NSF), #2452629 (2026-2027); Role: PI (Co-I: Theresa M. McCormick, PSU) 

• Efficient and Mild Synthesis of Arynes from Readily Available Building Blocks. National Science Foundation (NSF), #2247802 (2023-2026); Role: PI 

Prior Funding

• CAS: Interrogating the Intersection of Structure, Bonding, and Reactivity of Hypervalent Halogens. National Science Foundation (NSF), #2154500 (2022-2025); Role: PI (Co-I: Theresa M. McCormick, PSU)

• Efficient access to bioactive natural products enabled by chemical synthesis. Murdock Charitable Trust, Partners in Science (2023-2024); Role: PI

• Efficient Access to Arynes for Applications in Medicinal Chemistry. BUILD EXITO Pilot Project Grant Program (2021-2022); Role: PI

• Acquisition of a 600 MHz Spectrometer with Cryoprobe Capability. Murdock Charitable Trust; Role: Co-I

• Updating Bifunctional Chelators to Keep Pace with Modern Biomedical Sciences. National Institutes of Health, General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), #GM127964; Role: Co-I (PI: Woods, OHSU).

• Probing the Solution-Phase Dynamics of l3-Iodanes and Relation to Reactivity. National Science Foundation (NSF), #1856705 (2019-2022); Role: PI

• MRI: Acquisition of Enhanced Mass Spectroscopy Capabilities at Portland State University. National Science Foundation (NSF), #1828573; Role: Co-I

• Avoidance of Interference from Insulin Preservatives in a Dual-use Catheter for T1D. National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive Disease and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); Role: Co-I (PI: Ward, Pacific Diabetes Technologies).

• Direct Carbon-Carbon Bond Forming Reactions with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents: Redefining Formal SNAr Reactivity with Carbon Nucleophiles. American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) Doctoral New Investigator Award (2014-2016); Role: PI