Dr. Devlin is currently an associate professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
Sloan was born and raised in Mystic, CT. She received her A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard College in 2006, where she conducted research in the laboratory of Andrew Myers. She was a member of the varsity sailing team and was co-captain and skipper when the team won the 2005 women’s national championship. She earned her Ph.D. in 2012 from Stanford University under the direction of Professor Justin Du Bois. Her graduate work focused on the total synthesis of the potent voltage-gated sodium ion channel agonist batrachotoxin as well as the development of novel rhodium-catalyzed C–H insertion methodology. In 2012, Sloan joined the lab of Professor Michael Fischbach at the University of California, San Francisco as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research in the Fischbach lab involved elucidating biosynthetic pathways and biological activities for small molecules produced by human-associated bacteria. Sloan joined the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School as an assistant professor in Fall 2016. Sloan’s current work focuses on leveraging expertise in organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, cell biology, and gnotobiotic in vivo experiments to understand how human gut bacteria contribute to health and disease.
Selected Honors and Awards
The Journal of Clinical Investigation Lectureship Award, 2023 ASBMB Deuel Lipids Conference
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, chemistry, 2021
NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) (R35), 2018
John and Virginia Kaneb Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2018
Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Fellow, 2017-2018
Roger Davis Investigator Award, Kern Lipid Conference, 2017
Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University, 2011-2012
Novartis Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 2010-2011
Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2010
Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Athletics Prize, 2006
Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 2005
Finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, 2005
2004, 2005, 2006 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women’s All-American
2006 ICSA Academic All-American
2005 National Champion