Francisco Battiti

Research Interests

Francisco O. Battiti received his BS in Chemistry and BSLA in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, conducting research on functionalization in dearomatization strategies for natural product synthesis under the mentorship of Prof. David Sarlah. Francisco joined the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the Molecular Targets and Medications Discovery Branch as a post-baccalaureate IRTA Fellow and is a recipient of the Scientific Director’s Diversity in Research Fellowship, in the laboratory of Dr. Amy H. Newman in 2018. In his role at the NIDA IRP, he worked on the synthesis of selective D3 agonists. Francisco is now Ph.D. student in the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge GPP.

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