Sloan Devlin is a Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (BCMP) at Harvard Medical School. She received her A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard College in 2006, where she conducted organic chemistry research in the laboratory of Andrew Myers. She earned her Ph.D. in 2012 from Stanford University under the direction of Justin Du Bois, where she performed research in total synthesis and organometallic methodology development. As a postdoc with Michael Fischbach at the University of California, San Francisco, she elucidated biosynthetic pathways and biological activities for small molecules produced by human gut bacteria. Sloan joined the Department of BCMP 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. She is the recipient of a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in chemistry and a 2018 NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA).