Alanna Schepartz to Lead the Chemical Biology Institute at Yale University

Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, was named director of the university’s new Chemical Biology Institute. She chaired the faculty advisory committee that developed the institute over the past year.

Dr. Schepartz stated that “this institute is a major step toward assembling a group of world-class researchers who focus on interdisciplinary and molecular solutions to significant problems that impact human health, energy, and the environment.”

Professor Schepartz has been on the Yale faculty since 1988. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.