Meet the 2024 CAS Future Leaders

There are 35 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the 2024 class of CAS Future Leaders. These scientists will participate in a program at CAS headquarters, in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 12–17, that will boost their leadership skills, provide them with opportunities to learn about the chemical information industry, and allow them to connect with peers and industry innovators. The cohort will also travel to Denver to attend the ACS Fall 2024 meeting Aug. 18–22. Following are the affiliations and qualifications of this year's Future Leaders at the time of the award announcement, in March. These quotes were edited for length and clarity. Aziz Abu-Saleh: Postdoc researcher, University of Windsor Education: BS, chemistry, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, 2011; MS, chemistry, University of Jordan, 2015; PhD, chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2021 Research: Using computational and theoretical tools for drug design and data science Scientific role model: "Brian K. Shoichet. He is