Oyelere Lab

Dr. Adegboyega (Yomi) Oyelere

Contact: AOyelere@gatech.edu

I.          Earned Degrees

B.S. Chemistry (Industrial Option)

1988-1992 University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Ph.D. Organic Chemistry (advisor: J. Oliver)

1993-1998 Brown University, Providence RI

II.         Employment History

July 1998 – Nov. 2001: 

Postdoctoral Associate and Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (advisor: S. Strobel).

Nov. 2001 – Jan. 2004:

Research Scientist II, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Jan. 2004 – Aug. 2005:

Senior Research Scientist, Rib-X Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Aug. 2005 – April 2011:

Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

Dec. 2007 – Nov. 2009:

Blanchard Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

April 2011 – March 2022:

Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

March 2022 – Present:

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

III. Honors and Awards

  1. 2021     Co-Editor, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
  2. 2020     Editorial Board Member, PeerJ
  3. 2020     Editorial Board Member, Cancers MDPI
  4. 2020     Contributing Member, Chemical Biology of the Cell Section – F1000 Faculty
  5. 2019     Editorial Board Member, Molecules MDPI
  6. 2018     Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow
  7. 2018     Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
  8. 2016     Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, A Nature Research Journal
  9. 2016     Vasser-Woolley Faculty Fellowship
  10. 2015     Cullen Peck Fellow.
  11. 2013     Nominated for the NIH Directors Pioneer Award (Declined).
  12. 2009     Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship (GRC 2009, Bioorganic Chemistry).
  13. 2008     One of two Georgia Tech nominees for a Beckman Young Investigator Award.
  14. 2007     Blanchard Assistant Professorship (Georgia Institute of Technology).
  15. 1998     Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship for Medical Research.
  16. 1998     Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Graduate Student with Potential for further Contribution to Science, Brown University.
  17. 1998     Admitted as a Graduate Member of The Royal Society of Chemistry.
  18. 1997     Richardson Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Student, Brown University.
  19. 1995     Elected to Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.
  20. 1993     Faculty Prize for the Best Final Year Student in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan (Nigeria).
  21. 1993     The Lever Brothers (Nigeria) Prize for the Best Honors Degree Student in Chemistry.
  22. 1993     The Nigerian Breweries Prize in Chemistry and Biochemistry for the Best Graduating Student in Biochemistry and Chemistry.