About Me

Jeremy J. Kodanko 

Professor

Associate Chair

Contact:

Department of Chemistry

Wayne State University

5101 Cass Ave.

Detroit, MI, 48202

Division: Organic (Inorganic)

Office: Chem 267

Phone: 313-577-9043

E-mail: jkodanko@chem.wayne.edu

Research Interest

Organic synthesis, inorganic synthesis, metal-based drugs, catalysis, coordination chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology

Employment

2023 – present: Professor, Wayne State University

2013 – 2023: Associate Professor, Wayne State University

2006 – 2013: Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Education

 2003 – 2006: NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1998 – 2003: Ph.D., University of California-Irvine

1998: B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Grants

 2021 – 2024: NSF Award (Co-PI)

2021: WSU Grants Boost Award

2021: Barber Research Grant

2018 – 2021: NSF Award (Co-PI)

2013 – 2017: NIH R01Award

2008 – 2009: WSU Research Grant Award

2007 – 2009: Petroleum Research Fund, Type G Grant

Awards

 2024: WSU Outstanding Graduate Director Award

 2020: WSU Outstanding Graduate Director Award

2015: WSU Career Development Chair Award

2012: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award

2003: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship

2001: Dupont Pharmaceuticals Graduate Fellowship

1998: Daniel L. Sherk Award-Top Senior Thesis in Chemistry

1998: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

1997: Wisconsin/Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship