People
Current lab members
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Principal investigator |
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Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry co-Founder, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) 415-514-9698 |
iron in biology and disease, lead discovery and optimization reactivity-based pharmacology
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Postdoctoral fellows |
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Fabio Begnini, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
covalent library design and screening, medicinal chemistry |
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Ke Cheng, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
antimalarials, stereoprobe libraries, chemoproteomics |
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Eric Hantz, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
computational chemistry, simulation, SBDD |
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Jack McCann, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
medicinal chemistry, antivirals |
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Pusu Yang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] |
covalent fragment library design, medicinal chemistry |
Graduate Students |
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Vineet Mathur CCB Graduate Student (4th year) [email protected] |
conditionally-activated liposomes for drug delivery |
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Linh Tram CCB Graduate Student (5th year) [email protected] |
chemical biology tools to study labile iron, chemoproteomics |
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Jeffrey Zheng |
antibiotic discovery, medicinal chemistry |
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Jasmine Keyes CCB Graduate Student (2nd year) [email protected] |
antibiotic discovery, medicinal chemistry and structural biology |
Staff scientists |
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Priya Jaishankar, MS |
medicinal chemistry, lead discovery and optimization for novel anti-infectives |
Administration |
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Kazuko Olson |
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Former lab members
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Who |
Now at |
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Tim Acker, PhD |
Research Scientist at Eureka Therapeutics, Emeryville, CA |
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Brian Blank, PhD |
Scientist, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, CA |
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Mark Burlingame, PhD |
UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility |
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| Ying-Chu Chen, PhD | Scientist, AMGEN, Thousand Oaks, CA | |
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Ingrid Chen, PhD |
Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF |
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| Jun Chen, PhD | Scientist, Exelixis, Alameda, CA | |
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Jonathan Choy, PhD |
Sr. Scientist at Maze Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA |
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| Parker Deal, PhD | Sr. Scientist, Discovery Biology, Septerna, South San Francisco, CA | |
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Shaun Fontaine, PhD |
Associate Director of Chemistry, Tatara Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA |
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| Kyle DeFrees, PhD | Senior Scientist, Gate Bioscience, South San Francisco, CA | |
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Shubankar Dutta, PhD |
Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA |
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| Gilles DeGotte, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France | |
| Ryan Gonciarz, PhD | Senior Scientist, Exelixis, Alameda, CA | |
| Xochina El Hilali, PhD | Associate Consultant at IQVIA, San Francisco, CA | |
| Elizabeth Johnson, PhD | Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Matthew Klope, PhD | Independent consultant, loving father of Alice | |
| Allejandra Gallardo-Godoy, PhD | Senior Researcher, University of Queensland, Australia | |
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Brian Hearn, PhD |
VP and Head of Chemistry, Vilya, San Francisco, CA |
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Erica Lauterwasser, PhD |
Scientist, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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| Luca Lizzadro, PhD | Scientist, Hexagon Bio, Menlo Park, CA | |
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Sumit Mahajan, PhD |
Principle Scientific Researcher, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA |
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| Ryan Muir, PhD | Sr. Scientist, Discovery Biology, Septerna, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Jeffrey Neitz, PhD | Associate Director, Small Molecule Discovery Center, UCSF | |
| Ritwika Ray, PhD | Scientist, Merck Process Chemistry, Rahway, NJ | |
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Hiroki Shimizu PhD |
Research Scientist, Daichi Sankyo, Japan |
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Ben Spangler, PhD |
Scientist II, BioMarin, San Rafael, CA |
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| Juan Tapia Cardona, MS | Staff Sergeant, USAR Medical Laboratory NCO | |
| Takaya Togo, PhD | Assistant Research Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
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David Turner, PhD |
Research Scientist, Leidos, Frederick, MD |
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| Poulami Talukder, PhD | Scientist, Tiba Biotech LLC, Cambridge, MA | |
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Kurt Van Horn, PhD |
Research Scientist, Avista Pharma Solutions, NC |
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Punitha Vedantham, PhD |
Organic / Medicinal Chemistry Specialist Vibrant Sciences, Burlingame, CA |
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Yassir Younis Adam, PhD |
Medicinal Chemist at MyoKardia, South San Francisco, CA |