| Photo | Who | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
Principal investigator | ||
| Vice Dean of Research Technology and Entrepreneurship Thomas William and Frederick John MacWilliam Distinguished Professor Executive Director, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry | chemical biology, protein-protein interactions, screening, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, neglected diseases |
Postdoctoral scholars | ||
| Jinsu Bae, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar | Drug design, Medicinal chemistry, Drug discovery and development, Biophysical assays, Uveal Melanoma, Gaq/11 Inhibitors |
| Leila Bagheri, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar | Cellular Biology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Regenerative Medicine |
| Lucy Luo, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar | protein-protein interactions, cell biology, molecular biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics |
| Deepthi Ramesh, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar | Medicinal chemistry, Synthetic chemistry, Drug design, Cancer, Virology |
Graduate students | ||
| Chad Altobelli CCB Graduate Student [email protected] | genetic disorders, protein-protein interactions, structural biology, medicinal chemistry |
| Virginia Garda Graduate Student | Neurodegenerative diseases, lysosomal biology, high content imaging, chemical biology |
| Johanna Virta CCB Graduate Student | protein-protein interactions, developmental disorders, high-throughput screening, chemical biology, molecular biology, cell biology |
Staff scientists | ||
| Markella Konstantinidou, PhD Specialist [email protected] | Drug design, medicinal chemistry, fragment-based screening, biophysical assays, modulation of PPIs with molecular glues |
| Jeff Neitz, PhD Adjunct Professor, Chemistry [email protected] | synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, neurodegenerative disease, cancer |
| Amanda Paulson, PhD Specialist, Informatics | cheminformatics, data science, machine learning for drug discovery, high throughput screening |
| Jezrael Lafuente Revalde, PhD Specialist
| high-throughput screening, cell-based assay development, drug liver-induced injury, early stage drug discovery |
| Qinghui Wang, PhD Specialist | chemical biology, high-throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, cancer, inflammasome |
| Angel Zhang Jr. Specialist | synthetic chemistry, drug discovery, fragment-based screening, protein-protein interactions modulation |
Administrators | ||
| Ninwe Maraha, PhD Laboratory Manager [email protected] 415-502-6464 | |
| Becky Lein Program Manager [email protected] 415-410-3429 | |
Former team members
| Who | Formerly | Now |
|---|---|---|
| May H. Abdelaziz, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX |
| Zain Alam | Jr. Specialist | Jr. Scientist, Revolution Medicine |
| Andrew Ambrose | Scientist | Babylon Bioscience |
| Robert Amongre | Graduate Student | Research Associate, Genentech |
| Kenny Ang, PhD | Senior Scientist | Solely Thera |
| Suvankar Bera | ||
| Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota |
| Yuliya Birman | Graduate Student | Research Associate, Genentech |
| Stacie Bulfer, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Senior Scientist, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Lawrence, KS |
| Paul Burroughs | Staff Research Associate | Graduate Student, UCSF |
| Sheng Chen, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
| Steven Chen | Specialist | GE |
| Julia Davies | Senior Scientist | Solely Thera |
| Shubhankar Dutta, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Sanford Burnham Prebys |
| Jether Amos Espinosa | Junior Specialist | Graduate Student, Yale University |
| Yao Fan, PhD | Specialist | Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim |
| Ken Hallenbeck, PhD | Graduate Student | Senior Scientific Researcher, Merck |
| Kentaro Iimura | Specialist | Scientist, ONO |
| Frantz Jean-Francois, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist II, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD |
| Ziwen Jiang, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas |
| Dyana Kenanova, PhD | Graduate Student | Scientist, Kimia |
| Samantha Kennelly, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Adjunct Faculty, Mercer County Community College |
| Auke Koops | Graduate Student Intern | PhD Student, Eindohoven University of Technology |
| Yu-Hsuan Kuo, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Project Manager, Stanford University |
| Greg Lee, PhD | Specialist | Senior Scientist, Quanta Therapeutics |
| Kanika Leang | Jr. Specialist | PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley |
| Sarine Markossian, PhD | Specialist | Editor in Chief, Assay Guidance Manual, Scientific program manager, Early translation, NCATS/NIH |
| Daniel Medina-Cleghorn, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, Nurix Therapeutics |
| Connie Merron | Specialist | Associate director, Research Informatics, NGM Biopharmaceuticals |
| Maxime van den Oetelaar | Visitor Graduate | PhD Student, Eindohoven University of Technology |
| Maryam Pearson | Graduate Student | University College London, Reproductive Health Science |
| Sam Pfaff, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, Prolynx |
| Annet Saris | Graduate Student Intern | |
| Takeshi Shida, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
| Yinyan Tang, PhD | Specialist | Scientist, Nektar Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA |
| Nupur Verma, PhD | Scientist | Cepheid |
| Holly Vickery, PhD | Graduate Student | Scientist, Revolution Medicines |
| Chris Wilson, PhD | Principal Scientist | Solely Thera |
| Mengqi Zhong, PhD | Associate Director | Rezo Thera |