Rishab Iyer
​
Graduate Student

Rishab Iyer received his BS in Chemistry from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Al, where he performed undergraduate research under Professor Anthony J. Arduengo III. His undergraduate projects involved the synthesis of antiviral medications in part with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is currently a second year graduate student in Professor David E. Olson's laboratory at the University of California, Davis. His graduate studies are focused on the total synthesis of natural products from the iboga family.