E-mail: raaltman@purdue.edu
Office: 410A RHPH

Experience

Purdue University
2024–Present Steve and Lee Ann Taglienti Chair in Pharmacy
2023–Present Professor
2020–2023 Associate Professor

The University of Kansas
2017–2020 Associate Professor
2011–2017 Assistant Professor

Education

2011 NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Irvine
Mentor: Larry Overman

2008 Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mentor: Stephen Buchwald

2003 B.S. Chem.
Creighton University
Summa Cum Laude

Honors

2023 Seed for Success Acorn Award

2018 Rho Chi Excellence in Teaching Award

2015 NSF CAREER

2015 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

Teaching

MCMP 205 Organic Chemistry II

PHAR 844 Integrated Pharmacotherapy II

MCMP 570 Basic Principles of Chemical Action on Biological Systems

CHEM 255 Organic Chemistry I

External Service

ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Early Career Board

Green Synthesis and Catalysis, Editorial Board

NIH Review Panel: CSB, Full Member

Ad Hoc NIH Review Panels: SBCA, SBCB, ZRG1 CB-P (MIRA), 05 ZRG1 MDCN-R 86 A (Neuroscience AREA), NCI Chemical Biology Laboratory

University Service

2023– Present Faculty Senate

2023–Present EHS Chemical and Laboratory Safety Committee

2021–Present NMR Instrumentation Facility, Executive Committee

2023–2025 Faculty Senate

Current and Previous External Funding

National Institute of Aging (R21 AG078775)
National Cancer Institute (R21 CA270879)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R35 GM124661)
National Science Foundation (1455163)
NIH NIGMS COBRE (P30 GM110761)
Herman Frasch Foundation for Chemical Research (701-HF12)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21 DA036730, R33 DA036730)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (52073-DNI1)