{{Short description|American Chemist}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Neal Devaraj |image = Neal K Devaraj.jpg |caption = Devaraj in 2018 |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|9|7}} |birth_place = Manhattan Beach, California, U.S. |field = Chemical biology<br />Biochemistry |work_institutions = Harvard<br />University of California, San Diego |alma_mater = MIT<br />Stanford |doctoral_advisor = James P. Collman<br />Christopher Chidsey |academic_advisors = Moungi Bawendi<br />Ralph Weissleder |known_for = Tetrazine bioorthogonal reactions; synthesis of artificial cells and membranes |awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)<br />Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry (2019)<br />ACS Award in Pure Chemistry (2017)<br />NSF CAREER Award (2013)}}

'''Neal K. Devaraj''' (born September 7, 1980) is an American chemist and professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).<ref name="NKD">{{cite web |title=Devaraj, Neal |url=https://www-chem.ucsd.edu/faculty/profiles/devaraj_neal_k.html |website=www-chem.ucsd.edu |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref> His research interests include artificial cells, lipid membranes, and bioconjugation.

==Education== Devaraj attended college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he performed research in the lab of Professor Moungi Bawendi.<ref name="Indicator on NKD">{{cite web |title=Professor Neal Deveraj Receives the North Jersey Section’s 2019 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award |url=https://www.njacs.org/wp-content/uploads/Indicator-2019-09-pages1and5.pdf |website=www.njacs.org |publisher=The Indicator |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref> In 2007, Devaraj earned his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University, where he worked in the labs of Professors James P. Collman and Christopher Chidsey.<ref name="NKD Guggenheim">{{cite web |title=Guggenheim Fellows: Neal K. Devaraj |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/neal-k-devaraj/ |website=www.gf.org |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref>

==Career and research== From 2007-2011, Deveraj completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School in the lab of Professor Ralph Weissleder.<ref name="NKD Harvard">{{cite web |title=Neal K. Devaraj |url=https://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/node/3575 |website=jacobsschool.ucsd.edu |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref> In 2011, Devaraj became a faculty member in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSD, where he is currently the Murray Goodman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry.<ref name="Murray NKD">{{cite web |title=Professor of Chemistry Neal Devaraj Named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow |url=https://today.ucsd.edu/story/professor-of-chemistry-neal-devaraj-named-vannevar-bush-faculty-fellow |website=today.ucsd.edu |access-date=18 October 2022}}</ref>

===Selected publications=== *{{cite journal|pages=952–9|doi=10.1021/acscentsci.8b00251|doi-access=free|title=The Future of Bioorthogonal Chemistry|year=2018|journal=ACS Central Science|volume=4|issue=8|pmid= 30159392|pmc= 6107859|last1=Devaraj|first1=NK}} *{{cite journal|pages=11429–32|doi=10.1021/jacs.6b01625|title=A Bioorthogonal Near-Infrared Fluorogenic Probe for mRNA Detection|year=2016|last1=Wu|first1=H|last2=Alexander|first2=SC|last3=Jin|first3=S|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=138|issue=36|pmid= 27510580|last4=Devaraj|first4=NK}} *{{cite journal|pages=5805–9|doi=10.1002/anie.201400135|title=In situ synthesis of alkenyl tetrazines for highly fluorogenic bioorthogonal live-cell imaging probes|year=2014|last1=Wu|first1=H|last2=Yang|first2=J|last3=Šečkutė|first3=J|journal= Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|volume=53|issue=23|pmid= 24764312|pmc= 4104127|last4=Devaraj|first4=NK}} *{{cite journal|pages=7476–9|doi=10.1002/ange.201202122|title=Live-Cell Imaging of Cyclopropene Tags with Fluorogenic Tetrazine Cycloadditions|year=2012|last1=Yang|first1=J|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|volume=51|issue=30|pmid= 22696426 |pmc= 3431913 |last2=Devaraj|first2=NK}} *{{cite journal|pages=5222–5|doi=10.1002/anie.201201117|title=Metal-catalyzed one-pot synthesis of tetrazines directly from aliphatic nitriles and hydrazine|year=2012|last1=Yang|first1=J|last2=Karver|first2=MR|last3=Li|first3=W|last4=Sahu|first4=S|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|volume=51|issue=21|pmid= 22511586|pmc= 3434974|last5=Devaraj|first5=NK}}

===Awards and honors=== Source:<ref name="NKD"/>

* 2013 - NSF CAREER Award * 2016 - NIH T1D Pathfinder Award * 2016 - Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award * 2016 - National Fresenius Award * 2017 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry * 2018 - Magomedov-Shcherbinina Memorial Prize * 2018 - Blavatnik National Laureate in Chemistry * 2019 - Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry * 2019 - Guggenheim Fellowship * 2019 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award * 2021 - Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award * 2022 - Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award * 2022 - Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

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