BS, Michigan State University
PhD, Michigan State University
Post Doctoral Fellow, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Post Doctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida
Ron Rahaim was born and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University receiving a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1998. As an undergraduate he worked in the laboratory of Prof. William Reusch. He returned to Michigan State University for graduate studies, starting in the spring of 2001 and joined the research group of Prof. Robert Maleczka. His graduate research focused on the development of functional group transformation using palladium nanoparticles on a silicon matrix. In 2006 he started postdoctoral studies at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard under the guidance of Prof. Jared Shaw developing a new solid phase linker to merge diversity-oriented synthesis libraries with target identification. After gaining experience in chemical biology, Ron moved to The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida for a postdoctoral fellowship in medicinal chemistry under the guidance of Prof. William Roush, starting in 2007. Where he developed a library for the identification of isoform selective inhibitors of protein arginine methyltrasferases, and performed lead optimization on a small molecule inhibitor of the protein kinase CK1d, which is currently in early phase clinical trials. In August of 2011, Ron joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in the Department of Chemistry to begin his independent career.
