LaToya Scaggs, PhD
Staff Scientist
- : latoya.d.scaggs@vanderbilt.edu
- : 615-343-4788
- :
12410-D MRB IV
Toya received her BS in 2008 from the University of Notre Dame where she explored the use of silver carbonate for base labile substrates in the Wittig reaction under Professor Shahriar Mobashery. Following undergrad, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry for six years starting off as a process chemist in Chemical Development at AMRI and working her way to analytical method development at Covance Laboratories.
She ultimately decided to pursue a PhD in 2014 under Professor Thomas Snaddon at Indiana University. Under his tutelage, Toya explored synthetic strategies to access the epidithiodiketopiperazines and completed the synthesis of hyalodendrin. In 2020, Toya joined VICB Synthesis Core as a Staff Scientist.