People
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Principal investigator |
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Thomas William and Frederick John MacWilliam Distinguished Professor Codirector, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 415-514-4313 |
chemical biology, protein-protein interactions, screening, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, neglected diseases |
Postdoctoral scholars |
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Andrew Ambrose, PhD |
drug discovery, molecular biology, HTS assay development, neurodegenerative disease, chemical biology |
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Jinsu Bae, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Drug design, Medicinal chemistry, Drug discovery and development, Biophysical assays, Uveal Melanoma, Gaq/11 Inhibitors |
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Leila Bagheri, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Cellular Biology, Neurodegenerative Disease, Regenerative Medicine |
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Suvankar Bera, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Multistep Organic Synthesis, Organometallic & Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, Discovery of highly selective small molecule inhibitor for PARP1 over PARP2 in cancer therapy. |
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Ziwen Jiang, PhD |
chemical biology, protein-protein interactions |
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Samantha Kennelly, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Synthetic Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, and Chemical Biology |
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Deepthi Ramesh, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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Medicinal chemistry, Synthetic chemistry, Drug design, Cancer, Virology |
Graduate students |
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Chad Altobelli |
genetic disorders, protein-protein interactions, structural biology, medicinal chemistry |
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Virginia Garda
Graduate Student
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Neurodegenerative diseases, lysosomal biology, high content imaging, chemical biology
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Johanna Virta
CCB Graduate Student
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protein-protein interactions, developmental disorders, high-throughput screening, chemical biology, molecular biology, cell biology |
Staff scientists |
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Zain Alam
Jr. Specialist
BS in biochemistry
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drug discovery, high-throughput screening, assay development, cancer, chemical biology |
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Markella Konstantinidou, PhD |
Drug design, medicinal chemistry, fragment-based screening, biophysical assays, modulation of PPIs with molecular glues |
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Jeff Neitz, PhD |
synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, neurodegenerative disease, cancer |
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Amanda Paulson, PhD
Specialist, Informatics
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cheminformatics, data science, machine learning for drug discovery, high throughput screening |
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Maryam Pearson
Jr. Specialist
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drug discovery, chemical biology, neurodegenerative disease, molecular biology |
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Jezrael Lafuente Revalde, PhD
Specialist
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high-throughput screening, cell-based assay development, drug liver-induced injury, early stage drug discovery |
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Kanika Leang
Jr. Specialist
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drug discovery, protein-protein interactions, chemical biology, molecular biology, cell biology
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Qinghui Wang, PhD
Specialist
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chemical biology, high-throughput screening, medicinal chemistry, cancer, inflammasome |
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Angel Zhang
Jr. Specialist
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synthetic chemistry, drug discovery, fragment-based screening, protein-protein interactions modulation
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Administrators |
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Ninwe Maraha, PhD |
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Kazuko Olson |
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Former team members
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Who |
Formerly |
Now |
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May H. Abdelaziz, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX |
| Robert Amongre | Graduate Student | Research Associate, Genentech |
| Kenny Ang, PhD | Specialist | |
| Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Minnesota |
| Yuliya Birman | Graduate Student | Research Associate, Biodesy |
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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 | |
| Shubhankar Dutta, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
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Jether Amos Espinosa |
Junior Specialist |
Graduate Student, Yale University |
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Yao Fan, PhD |
Specialist |
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim |
| Ken Hallenbeck, PhD | Graduate Student | Senior Scientific Researcher, Genentech |
| Kentaro Iimura | Specialist | Scientist, ONO |
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Frantz Jean-Francois, PhD |
Postdoctoral Scholar |
Scientist II, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD |
| Dyana Kenanova, PhD | Graduate Student | Scientist, Kimia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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Connie Merron |
Specialist |
Associate director, Research Informatics, NGM Biopharmaceuticals |
| Maxime van den Oetelaar | Visitor Graduate | PhD Student, Eindohoven University of Technology |
| Sam Pfaff, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, Prolynx |
| Annet Saris | Graduate Student Intern | |
| Takeshi Shida, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
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Yinyan Tang, PhD |
Specialist |
Scientist, Nektar Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA |
| Nupur Verma, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | |
| Holly Vickery, PhD | Graduate Student | Scientist, Revolution Medicines |
| Chris Wilson, PhD | Associate Directory | |
| Mengqi Zhong, PhD | Postdoctoral Scholar | Scientist, REVOLUTION Medicines |