Principal Investigator, Professor of Chemistry
Co-Director of NIH-funded Chemical Biology Training Program
elizabeth.boon at stonybrook.edu
Dr.
Elizabeth (Liz) M. Boon grew up in Durham, NC. She received her A.B. with
Highest Honors in Chemistry from Kenyon College in 1997 and her Ph.D. from the
California Institute of Technology in 2003. Liz completed a NIH Postdoctoral
Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley before starting at Stony
Brook University in the fall of 2006. She has received several awards for her
research including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
(PECASE), the American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award, The
NYSTAR Watson Young Investigator Award, the Office of Naval Research Young
Investigator Award, and the Rising Star Award from the Research Foundation of
the State University of New York. In 2011 the Kavli Foundation and the National
Academy of Sciences elected Liz a Kavli Fellow.