Abstract
Anthony Estrada prides himself on never being outworked. A relic from his college basketball days, that fierce determination has taken on new weight as he tries to tackle the most notoriously tough area of drug discovery: neuroscience. It was while still focused on college basketball that Estrada first discovered chemistry. After seeing his high school grades, a counselor at the University of La Verne matched him with chemistry professor Namphol Sinkaset. “I was in his office 24/7, asking to do experiments, talking about chemistry nonstop,” Estrada recalls of his undergrad adviser. Sinkaset introduced him to famed organic chemist K.C. Nicolaou’s “Classics in Total Synthesis.” Reading the textbook, Estrada was so taken with the idea of building complex molecules that after college he joined Nicolaou’s lab at the University of California, San Diego. Former UCSD labmates remember Estrada as “a rock star” grad student who played a critical role in cracking
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