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Welcome to the Bren Research Group!


Above: Bren Group 2026—Left to right: Karishma Ramesh, Liz Kane, Shamitri Bandyopadhyay. Kara Bren, Alana Huynh, Rohith Rajendran and Afsar Ali


Our Mission

Research in the Bren Group

We are inorganic and bioinorganic chemists at the University of Rochester interested in developing new molecules, engineered proteins, and systems to catalyze reactions relevant to energy and the environment. Our approach is inspired by Nature’s catalysts and systems that perform challenging molecular transformations and that store light energy in the form of molecules.

More about our research

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