Keary Engle and Garret Miyake
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ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator LectureshipYear
2025
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Joint winners 2025: For pioneering contributions in their respective research areas
Keary Engle

Keary Engle is the John and Susan Diekman Dean of Graduate and  Postdoctoral Studies at The Scripps Research Institute and a professor in the Department of Chemistry. focuses on accelerating the synthesis of organic molecules by developing catalysts that enable efficient, effective and sustainable methods of chemical synthesis.
Prior to joining Scripps Research as an assistant professor in 2015, Engle was an NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a recipient of the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, 2021 Amgen Young Investigator Award, 2020 Eli Lilly Organic Chemistry Award, and 2018 Bristol Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant.
He earned a PhD in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biochemistry after completing his graduate studies jointly at The Scripps Research Institute with Prof. Jin-Quan Yu, and the University of Oxford with Profs. Véronique Gouverneur and John M. Brown.
Garret Miyake

Garret Miyake is the Dr. Robert Williams Professor of Organic Chemistry at Colorado State University, the Director of the NSF CCI Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (), and an Associate Editor for Macromolecules. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Pacific University. He completed his Ph.D. studies with Eugene Chen at Colorado State University before conducting postdoctoral research with Robert Grubbs at Caltech.
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