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Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Benjamin M. Swarts, Ph.D.
Benjamin M. Swarts, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Biography: Ben grew up in Danville, Ohio. He completed a B.A. in Chemistry from the College of Wooster in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Wayne State University in 2010 with Zhongwu Guo. He studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Carolyn Bertozzi until 2013, after which he joined CMU.
Selected awards: ACS Midland Section Outstanding Achievement and Promotion of the Chemical Sciences Award (2025); Mid-American Conference (MAC) Outstanding Faculty Award (2023); CMU Student Mentorship Award (2023); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2017); Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2017); CMU CSE Award for Outstanding Research (2017); International Carbohydrate Organization Young Researcher Award (2016); CMU Provost's Award for Outstanding Research (2016); RCSA Cottrell College Science Award (2014).
Contact: Biosciences Building 4112 | ben.swarts@cmich.edu | (989) 774-2525
Graduate students and postdocs
Graduate students and postdocs
Ulysses Johnson
BCMB PhD
Caleb Mensah
BCMB PhD
Clinton Kabutey
BCMB PhD
Zigli Abdulai
BCMB PhD
Alex Aboagye
BCMB PhD
Rohith Suresh
BCMB PhD
Carson Bush
Chemistry MS
Dr. Samim Sahaji
Postdoctoral fellow
Undergraduate students
Undergraduate students
Muhammad Nizami
Biochemistry major
Vi Hoang Thao To
Biochemistry major
Nicholas Spicer
Biochemistry major
Zachary Hager
Biochemistry major
Ryan Michalski
Biochemistry major
Suhani Bam Thakuri
Biochemistry major
Quintin Gates
Biochemistry major
Lab technicians
Lab technicians
Adnan Khan
Lab technician
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