Elaine Kuo

Hi, welcome to my website. My background is in organic chemistry, and I am enjoying teaching here at Ithaca College. I have attended chemistry graduate school, and have worked as a medicinal chemist in the pharmaceutical industry, and as a consultant at a patent law firm, before arriving here. If I can be of any help to you in answering questions about my experiences, and what a career in chemistry might be like, please let me know.

Education:
Harvard University, A.B., Chemistry, cum laude, 1987
California Institute of Technology, Ph.D.,1993, Organic Chemistry (organic synthesis), advisor: Prof. Andrew G. Myers, thesis title: I. Thermal Cyclization of (Z)-1,2,4-Heptatrien-6-yne; II. Studies Directed toward the Synthesis of Neocarzinostatin Chromophore