Dennis Bong received a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley while studying physical organic chemistry and phenylene synthesis with Professor K. Peter C. Vollhardt. From there he moved to the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla to carry out his PhD work on membrane active and self-assembling peptides with Professor M. Reza Ghadiri. Following a postdoctoral stint with Professor Ronald Breslow at Columbia University in New York, he joined the chemistry faculty at The Ohio State University.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY