We are hiring new Postdoctoral Research Fellows! Join our fun and productive team at SFU in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. 

Reach out to Dr. Britton via email (rbritton@sfu.ca) if interested! Underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.


Welcome! We are a natural products research group at Simon Fraser University focusing on organic synthesis and methodology development.


Recent News


April 2024

  • Congratulations to Suping for being awarded a Summer 2024 Conference Travel Award! 

March 2024

  • Congratulations to Darryl, Daniel, and our collaborators on their recent publication "Targeted sampling of natural product space to identify bioactive natural product-like ppolyketide macrolides" in Nature Communications! A huge amount of effort was poured into this project, well done! 
  • Congratulations to Darryl for his recent publication on the "Enantioselective total synthesis of marine macrolides Salarins A and C" in JACS! Go check it out! 

February 2024 

  • Congratulations to Suping for winning the SFU Chemistry Graduate Student Oral Presentation Competition! Your presentation on the synthesis of bridged nucleoside analogues was excellent! 
  • Congratulations to former group members Dr. Anthony McDonagh and Victoria Rose for their recent publication "sp3-Rich Heterocycle Synthesis on DNA: Application to DNA-Encoded Library Production" in Angewandte Chemie Internation Edition!

November 2023 

  • Many group members enjoyed attending BSOC 2023 in Banff earlier this month, representing the group and SFU well with their poster and oral presentations. Congratulations to Guillermo, Callum, and Minh for winning prizes for their oral and poster presentations. Excellent work! 

Support and Funding 


Thank you to the numerous funding agencies which have supported our research over the years ...