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Melissa Deri

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melissa deri

Dr. Deri earned her doctorate in chemistry from the CUNY Graduate Center in conjunction with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 2015. She earned her undergraduate (2010) and master’s degree (2011) in chemistry from NYU, and most recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at Lehman. Dr. Deri earned her doctorate in chemistry from the CUNY Graduate Center in conjunction with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2015. She earned her undergraduate (2010) and master’s degree (2011) in chemistry from NYU, and most recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at Lehman. Dr. Deri’s areas of expertise include science pedagogy and developing radioactive imaging agents for detection of diseases like cancer. She has won several prestigious research awards.

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