Organic and Organometallic Chemistry Lab at the University of Michigan. Sometimes student run, sometimes PI run - just to keep it fresh.

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined July 2016
Celebrating 20 years of remarkable scientific excellence, mentorship, and development of visionary trailblazers. Cheers to Sanford Lab’s 20 years! Congratulations, Melanie!
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I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining the faculty at @MichiganChem! Grateful for the incredible support I’ve received from my mentors, family, and friends along the way! lsa.umich.edu/chem/news-even…
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Third-year Emily presented her AMAZING research at the Latine Research Week hosted by Puentes at UofM. Congrats on an incredible poster, Emily! 🪅🎉😍 #happylatineresearchweek
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Blast from Melanie's past! Sanford Lab celebrating the National Girls and Women in Sports Day at the UofM women's gymnastics meet last weekend! #GoBlue
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New candidates just dropped! Congrats to our amazing second-years for passing their gateway exams! We're so proud of you! #dreamteam
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It's been a while! More updates coming soon, but we wanted to share this first: Huge congrats to our transition-metal complex whisperer Dr. Emily Nolan for defending her PhD back in November! 🍾🎉 Doc Nolan is starting a postdoc at Pfizer. We already miss you very much!
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Catch us on 🟦🌅 (user: Sanford-Lab)
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New candidate just dropped! Congrats to Emily Jimenez for passing her gateway exam. We look forward to following your journey in exploring the utility of modular in situ photocatalysts 💡🪇🥳#lightofthelab
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Congrats to our newest Dr. Alex Bunnell!!! 🪇🥳🪇We enjoyed hearing about your work on the mechanism-guided development of group 10-mediated reactions. Dr. Bunnell will be joining the team at Snapdragon 🐉. #CHactivATE
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Congrats to our very own Emily Nolan for being awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!! So well-deserved! 🥂🥳🎉
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Sanford Lab students presented their research at the Latine Research Week hosted by Puentes at UMich. Amazing job!! Congrats Abdias (YR 3), Ila (YR 4), and Sabrina (YR 4)🥳🪇💃 #happylatineresearchweek
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Congrats Dr. Jonathan Hall on a fantastic defense about the synthesis of organofluorine molecules via non-traditional bond activation. Jonathan will be a post-doc fellow at @boehringerus in the catalysis group. 🥳🍾#fluorinATE
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Sanford lab and friends having some fun on the ice with @MichiganChem this past weekend! ⛸️🧊
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@MichiganChem on ice fun continued ☃️🏂
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Sanford Lab retweeted
A fun collaboration with @Sanford_Lab and Neurock group! The 4th paper of 2025! @UtahChemistry
Congrats to Sabrina Reich and Dr. En-Chih Liu on their recent publication! 🪇🥂🥳 Such a huge accomplishment!! In collaboration with the Luo lab and Neurock lab. Learn more about Electro-oxidative Deoxyfluorination of Arenes with NEt3·3HF. @NSF_CSOE pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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Congrats to Sabrina Reich and Dr. En-Chih Liu on their recent publication! 🪇🥂🥳 Such a huge accomplishment!! In collaboration with the Luo lab and Neurock lab. Learn more about Electro-oxidative Deoxyfluorination of Arenes with NEt3·3HF. @NSF_CSOE pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
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New Year new rotators! 💫 This semester we are excited to have two incredible rotators Vico Wang and Perri Prestwood.
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Vico Wang went to Emory University and worked in Dr. Cora MacBeth's lab. Fun fact about Vico, she has a film minor and writes screenplays!📔 She'll be doing organometallics studies with Iron🤘.
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Perri Prestwood went to Sewanee: The University of the South and worked in Dr. Ron Pongdee's lab. Fun fact, Perri played varsity softball through college! ⚾️ She'll be working in radiofluorination! Happy to have you this semester!
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Happy holidays and happy new year from the Sanford Lab! 🎊
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