Neal Devaraj

Neal Devaraj, co-founder of Palm, is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and co-inventor of DPALM technology. He earned his PhD in Chemistry at Stanford University in the labs of Profs. James Collman and Christopher Chidsey. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Prof. Ralph Weissleder, he joined UCSD. He is a world leader in bioconjugation, chemical biology, and bottom-up synthetic biology. His work has been recognized by the prestigious ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and he was recently named the 2018 Blavatnik National Laureate in Chemistry.