Vy Maria Dong
Vy Dong | |
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| Born | Vy Maria Dong 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Irvine B.S. (1998) California Institute of Technology Ph.D. (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Organic chemistry |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine (2012-present) University of Toronto (2006-2012) University of California, Berkeley (2004-2006) |
| Thesis | Novel Variants of the Zwitterionic Claisen Rearrangement and the Total Synthesis of Erythronolide B (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | David MacMillan |
| Other academic advisors | Larry E. Overman, Robert G. Bergman, Ken Raymond |
| Website | www |
Vy Maria Dong (born 1976 in Big Spring, Texas) is a Vietnamese-American Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Dong works on enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis. She received the Royal Society of Chemistry's Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award in 2020, the American Chemical Society's Elias James Corey Award in 2019, and the UCI's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018.