Ian M. Wasser was born in 1973 in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Detroit Country Day School. He received a B. S. Chemistry degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1995, where he conducted undergraduate research under the direction of Professor James E. Penner-Hahn. This was then followed in 1998 by an M. S. degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied organometallic chemistry and X-ray crystallography with Professor Peter Vollhardt. He is currently a doctoral candidate, working toward his Ph.D. in bioinorganic chemistry under the direction of Professor Kenneth D. Karlin at Johns Hopkins University, where his research focuses on the interactions of synthetic iron and copper complexes with nitric oxide.

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