SEES Fellows: Recyclable Solid Supports as a Sustainable Platform Technology

来自麻省理工学院的Frank Leibfarth博士将获得美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）的这一奖项，他将开发可回收的固体载体，用于高效、经济地生产复杂分子，包括多糖、多肽和寡核苷酸。该奖项得到以下机构的支持：工程局；数学和物理科学理事会的化学系和材料科学系。这项工作将结合聚合物载体上的固相合成、动态共价化学和连续流系统来进行产生目标分子的反应。在这项工作中提出的研究的目的是开发更好、更有效的方法来合成复杂分子（例如药物），同时产生最少的化学废物。Leibfarth将与麻省理工学院化学系的Timothy F. Jamison教授和诺华生物医学研究所的Sejal Patel博士合作。Leibfarth博士还将与麻省理工学院工程拓展办公室以及西班牙裔专业工程师协会合作开展教育项目。该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员）计划支持，其目标是帮助实现必要的发现，为导致环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在see研究员的支持下，该项目将使有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续性相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的职业生涯。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program) Dr. Frank Leibfarth from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop recyclable solid supports for the efficient and economical production of complex molecules, including polysaccharides, peptides and oligonucleotides. This award has support from: the Directorate for Engineering; and the Division of Chemistry and the Division of Materials Science in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.The proposed work will combine solid phase synthesis on a polymer support with dynamic covalent chemistry with a continuous flow system to carry out the reactions that create the target molecules. The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to develop better, more efficient methods for the synthesis of complex molecules (e.g. pharmaceuticals) with minimum production of chemical waste.Dr. Leibfarth will be working with collaborators Prof. Timothy F. Jamison of the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of and Dr. Sejal Patel of Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research. Dr. Leibfarth will also work with the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach as well as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers on educational projects. This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.