Neil Garg

Sources: Garg received his B.S. from New York University in 2000. He went on to earn his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology, where he studied organic chemistry under the supervision of Brian Stoltz as a DoD NDSEG Fellow, completing his studies in 2005. Upon completion of his graduate work, he held an NIH post-doctoral appointment in the laboratory of Larry Overman at University of California - Irvine from 2005 to 2007. Garg was promoted to Distinguished Professor at UCLA in 2020. In 2018, he became the inaugural holder of the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry. He has served as Vice Chair for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (2012-2016) and (2023–present) and served as the Department Chair (2019–2023). He also served as Faculty-in-Residence in the UCLA dormitories from 2012-2021. ==Awards and honors==

Garg has received more than fifty honors and awards for his research and teaching. • Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2024 • AAAS Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, 2023 • Mukaiyama Award, 2022 • Horizon Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021 • Edward Leete Award from the ACS, 2019 • James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry, 2019 • New York University's Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2019 • Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, 2018 • ACS Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in Organic Synthesis, 2017 • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016 • Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, 2015 • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2013 • AP Sloan Research Fellowship, 2012 ==References==