Kurt Armbrust
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Experience
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Relay Therapeutics
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Scientist II
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Dec 2021 - Present
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Bristol Myers Squibb
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Scientist
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Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
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Senior Scientist
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Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
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Celgene
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Scientist II
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Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
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Scientist
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Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald • Developed a novel telescoped route to (hetero)aryl hydrazines and related heterocycles through the use of continuous flow technology • Enabled investigations of high temperature reactions with corrosive reaction streams via development of a novel reactor system, which is currently in use on multiple projects with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald • Developed a novel telescoped route to (hetero)aryl hydrazines and related heterocycles through the use of continuous flow technology • Enabled investigations of high temperature reactions with corrosive reaction streams via development of a novel reactor system, which is currently in use on multiple projects
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
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Sep 2008 - Sep 2014
with Professor Timothy F. Jamison• Achieved the formal synthesis of the marine ladder polyether brevisin via rhodium-catalyzed epoxy-alcohol cascades• Developed enabling methodology applicable to oxepane-containing ladder polyether natural products• Investigated novel cyclopropane epimerization via [3,3]- sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement towards the synthesis of complex indole alkaloids
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Predoctoral Summer Research Experience
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Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
with Professor Sarah O’Connor• Synthesized aryl azide photoaffinity labels to empower search for mammalian enzymes involved in endogenous morphine biosynthesis
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Brown University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Undergraduate Researcher
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Nov 2005 - May 2008
with Professor Matthew B. Zimmt • Synthesized and studied molecules capable of monolayer self-assembly at the liquid-graphite interface via scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) • Proposed, synthesized, and studied a novel four-component, two-dimensional self-assembled patterning array directed by hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions with Professor Matthew B. Zimmt • Synthesized and studied molecules capable of monolayer self-assembly at the liquid-graphite interface via scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) • Proposed, synthesized, and studied a novel four-component, two-dimensional self-assembled patterning array directed by hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions
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Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Organic Chemistry -
Brown University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Chemistry