{"id":2635,"date":"2025-03-15T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T09:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boschem.eu\/bos2026\/?page_id=2635"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:37:18","slug":"richmond-sarpong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boschem.eu\/bos2026\/speakers\/richmond-sarpong\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond Sarpong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2635\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2635-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2635-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2635-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/boschem.eu\/bos2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/Sarpong_photo.jpg\" class=\"image wp-image-2636  attachment-200x296 size-200x296\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2635-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2635-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Title and Abstract: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boschem.eu\/bos2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/01\/Sarpong_Abstract_BOS2026_ok.pdf\">BREAK-IT-TO-MAKE-IT STRATEGIES FOR CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS INSPIRED BY COMPLEX NATURAL PRODUCTS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Richmond Sarpong is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley where he and his group specialize in synthetic organic chemistry. Richmond became interested in chemistry after seeing, firsthand, the effectiveness of the drug ivermectin in combating river blindness during his childhood in Ghana, West Africa. Richmond described his influences and inspirations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nIsY87-zkXA\">TEDxBerkeley talk in 2015<\/a> (Face of Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa). Richmond completed his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and his graduate work was carried out with Prof. Martin Semmelhack at Princeton. He conducted postdoctoral studies at Caltech with Prof. Brian Stoltz. At Berkeley (since 2004), Richmond\u2019s laboratory focuses on the synthesis of bioactive complex organic molecules.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title and Abstract: BREAK-IT-TO-MAKE-IT STRATEGIES FOR CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS INSPIRED BY COMPLEX NATURAL PRODUCTS Richmond Sarpong is a Professor of Chemistry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":644,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richmond Sarpong - BOS 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/boschem.eu\/bos2026\/speakers\/richmond-sarpong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Richmond Sarpong - 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