Welcome! We are a natural products research group at Simon Fraser University focusing on organic synthesis and methodology development.


Recent News


May 2023 

  • Congratulations to Cohan for his first-author publication on the 'Efficient protocol for the preparation of α-heteroaryl acetaldehydes' in CJC! Many other team members collaborated on this work too, well done all! 

April 2023 

  • Congratulations to Suping and Carolyn for being awarded with a Summer Graduate Fellowship! Way to go! 
  • Our paper on the formal synthesis of Eribulin was published in Nature Communications! Congrats to current post-doc Guillermo and former graduate students Anissa and Dimitrios! 

March 2023

  • Congratulations to Damian and his presentation "From Corals to Medicines - Nature's Molecular Gifts" for a 2nd place finish in SFU's 3-minute thesis competition! 

February 2023

  • Congratulations to Alan for being one of the winners in the 2023 Graduate Oral Competition! Enjoy your conference/travel prize! 


Support and Funding 


Thank you to the numerous funding agencies which have supported our research over the years ...