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Email

damian.young@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
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Houston, TX, US

Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology
Center for Drug Discovery
Houston, Texas, USA

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Chemistry
Rice University
Houston, Texas, USA

Member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

BCM-Cullen Building (Office)

Room: BCMC-286A
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

BS from Howard University

District of Columbia, United States

PhD from North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Honors & Awards

Scholar

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (01/2014 - 12/2014)

Minority Predoctoral Fellowship

NIH (01/2000 - 12/2004)

U-Star Undergraduate Fellowship Program

NIH (01/1998 - 12/1998)

Undergraduate of the Year

District of Columbia Institute of Chemists (01/1997 - 12/1997)

Scholarship

Lubrizol (01/1996 - 12/1997)

Honors

Howard University Department of Chemistry (01/1995 - 12/1998)

Scholarship

Monsanto (01/1995 - 12/1996)

Trustee Scholarship

Howard University (01/1993 - 12/1995)

Professional Interests

• Synthetic organic chemistry
• Fragment-based drug discovery
• Diversity-oriented synthesis
• Medicinal chemistry
• Chemical biology

Websites

Selected Publications

• Young DW, Comins DL. " " Org. Lett. 2005 Dec 8; 7 (25) : 5661-5664.
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• Kelly AR, Wei J, Kesavan S, Marie JC, Windmon N, Young DW, and Marcaurelle LA. " " Org. Lett.. 2009 ; 11 (11) : 2257-2260.
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• Young DW. " " Nat. Chem. Bio.. 2010 ; 6 (3) : 174-175.
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• Dancik V, Seiler KP, Young DW, Schreiber SL, and Clemons PA.. " " J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2010 ; 132 (27) : 9259-61.
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• Marcaurelle LA et al.. " " J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2010 ; 132 (47) : 16962-76.
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• Hung AW, Ramek A, Wang Y, Kaya T, Wilson JA, Clemons PA, and Young DW.. " " Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2011 ; 108 (17) : 6799-804.
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• Wang Y, Jimenez M, Hansen AS, Raiber EA, Schreiber SL, and Young DW.. " " J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011 ; 133 (24) : 9196-9.
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• Pandya BA, Dandapani S, Duvall JR, Rowley A, Mulrooney CA, Ryba T, Dombrowski M, Harton M, Young DW, and Marcaurelle LA.. " " Tetrahedron. 2011 ; 67 (34) : 6131-67.
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• Zhong C, Wang Y, Hung AW, Schreiber SL, and Young DW.. " " Org. Lett.. 2011 ; 13 (20) : 5556-5559.
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• Wang Y, Jimenez J, Sheehan P, Zhong C, Hung AW, Tam CP, and Young DW.. " " Org. Lett.. 2013 ; 15 (6) : 1218-21.
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• Yuan Y, Hartland K, Boskovic Z, Wang Y, Walpita D, Zhong C, and Young DW, Kim Y-K, Tolliday NJ, Schreiber SL, and Wagner BK.. " " Chem. Biol.. 2013 ; 20 (12) : 1513-1522.
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• Zhong C, Wang Y, O’Herin C, and Young DW.. " " ACS Catalysis. 2013 ; 15 (6) : 643-46.

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Funding

Recruitment Award

$2,000,000.00   (03/01/2014 - 03/01/2018)

Grant funding from Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas