Chih-Cheng (Peter) Yeh

Graduate Student in Chemistry
(November 2013-October 2019)

B.S. Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 2013
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019

Current position: Consultant, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Chicago, IL

Email: pccyeh@gmail.com

Brief Biography

Peter Yeh received his B.S. degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 2012. In Fall 2013 he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working under the supervision of Prof. Scott K. Silverman on the in vitro selection of deoxyribozymes. He earned his Ph.D. degree in June 2019, and in October 2019 he moved to Chicago as a consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Research Interests

My research in the Silverman lab sought to identify deoxyribozymes that cleave glycosidic bonds, as well as deoxyribozymes that glycosylate peptide substrates.