Biography

Mariko Morimoto is the Huisking Foundation Inc. Collegiate Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame. She is also a faculty member of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBMS) Program.

She completed her undergraduate studies at Emory University in 2016, where she worked with Prof. Lanny Liebeskind in organocatalytic methodology development. She then obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of California Berkeley in 2021 under the joint mentorship of Prof. Dean Toste and Prof. Kenneth Raymond. Her PhD work focused on the synthesis of biomimetic supramolecular hosts and their application as selective catalysts. She conducted her postdoctoral work with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi at Stanford University designing glycomimetic ligands to target tumor-associated immune cells and developing chimeric molecules as a tumor-specific immunotherapy.