Dr. Hon Wai Lam

• Hon Wai Lam was born in Harrow, England in 1976, and grew up in northwest London.
• In 1994, Hon moved to Oxford to study chemistry at university, and received his M.Chem. degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1998, where he conducted undergraduate research with Jeremy Robertson.
• He then moved to the University of Nottingham to carry out his Ph.D studies, working under the direction of Gerald Pattenden. There he completed the total synthesis of the proposed structure of amphidinolide A.
• In January 2002, Hon moved to Harvard University as a GlaxoSmithKline Postdoctoral Fellow to work with David A. Evans on asymmetric catalysis.
• In October 2003, Hon joined the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer, where his group's research interests are based around the development of new synthetic methodology, enantioselective catalysis, and natural product synthesis. The first Ph.D. students arrived into the group in September 2004.
• Hon was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2009.
• Recognition of Hon's work has come in the form of an RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2008) and the RSC Hickinbottom Award (2011) and an AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award 2011.

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