Yivan J.

Co-Founder and Director @ Window Therapeutics, Inc.

About

Yivan has focused his career on developing methodologies and chemical designs that have application in fields including energy storage, drug delivery, bioconjugation, and gene transfection. He specializes in the synthesis of highly pure, unimolecular polymers by means of various polymerization techniques like Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerizations (ROMP), Iterative Exponential Growth (IEG), Reversible Addition−Fragmentation chain-Transfer polymerization (RAFT), and Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP). He has a nuanced understanding of large-scale chemical manufacturing and application of polymers to the therapeutic setting. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F8r0wc8AAAAJ&hl=en

Country

United States

City

Boston

Industry

Biotechnology

Skill

Biochemistry, Research, Polymer Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, Teaching

Experience

Co-Founder and Director

Window Therapeutics, Inc.

2019-10 - Present · 7 yrs

Postdoctoral Researcher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2019-5 - 2019-10 · 6 mos

PHD Candidate

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2014-9 - 2019-5 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Columbia University

2012-3 - 2014-8 · 2 yrs 6 mos

The Campos Group

-developed synthetic strategies of polyelectrolytes based on cyclopropenium cations by controlled radical polymerization -Synthesized thiophene monomers to be used for controlled polymerizations -Synthesized benzothiadiazole based donor monomers for use in polymer liquid crystal self-assembly