Current lab members
| Who | Research Interests/Project | |
|---|---|---|
Principal investigator | ||
| 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 | ||
| Fabio Begnini, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] | K2P family agonists, covalent lead development, medicinal chemistry |
| Jack McCann, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] | medicinal chemistry, antiviral discovery, ferroptosis induction with small molecules |
| Pusu Yang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar [email protected] | chemical probe discovery, medicinal chemistry for oncology |
Graduate Students | ||
| Daniel Torres Pomares CCB Graduate Student (rotating) [email protected] | Ferroptosis inhibition and induction with small molecules |
| Jeffrey Zheng CCB Graduate Student (5th year) [email protected] | antibiotic discovery, medicinal chemistry |
| Jasmine Keyes CCB Graduate Student (4th year) [email protected] | antibiotic discovery, medicinal chemistry and structural biology |
Staff scientists | ||
| Priya Jaishankar, MS Specialist, Group Leader and Lab Manager [email protected] | medicinal chemistry, lead discovery and optimization for novel anti-infectives |
Administration | ||
| Kazuko Olson Administrative Officer [email protected] 415-514-4757 | |
Former lab members
| Who | Now at | |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Acker, PhD | Research Scientist at Eureka Therapeutics, Emeryville, CA | |
| Brian Blank, PhD | Scientist, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Mark Burlingame, PhD | UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility | |
| Ying-Chu Chen, PhD | Scientist, AMGEN, Thousand Oaks, CA | |
| Ingrid Chen, PhD | Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF | |
| Jun Chen, PhD | Scientist, Exelixis, Alameda, CA | |
| Ke Cheng, PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF | |
| Jonathan Choy, PhD | Sr. Scientist at Maze Therapeutics, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Parker Deal, PhD | Sr. Scientist, Discovery Biology, Septerna, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Shaun Fontaine, PhD | Associate Director of Chemistry, Tatara Therapeutics, San Francisco, CA | |
| Kyle DeFrees, PhD | Senior Scientist, Gate Bioscience, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Shubankar Dutta, PhD | Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry, Sanford Burnham Prebys, La Jolla, CA | |
| 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 | Biology Lecturer, Monterey Peninsula College | |
| Allejandra Gallardo-Godoy, PhD | Senior Researcher, University of Queensland, Australia | |
| Brian Hearn, PhD | VP and Head of Chemistry, Vilya, San Francisco, CA | |
| Eric Hantz, PhD | Computational Chemist, Structure-Based Design | |
| Will Henderson, PhD | Physical Organic and Medicinal Chemist | |
| Erica Lauterwasser, PhD | Scientist, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany | |
| Luca Lizzadro, PhD | Scientist, Hexagon Bio, Menlo Park, CA | |
| Sumit Mahajan, PhD | Principle Scientific Researcher, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA | |
| Vineet Mathur, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Jun Lab (UCSF) | |
| 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 | |
| Hiroki Shimizu PhD | Research Scientist, Daichi Sankyo, Japan | |
| Ben Spangler, PhD | Scientist II, BioMarin, San Rafael, CA | |
| Juan Tapia Cardona, MS | Staff Sergeant, USAR Medical Laboratory NCO | |
| Takaya Togo, PhD | Assistant Research Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Linh Tram, PhD | Chemical Biologist | |
| David Turner, PhD | Research Scientist, Leidos, Frederick, MD | |
| Poulami Talukder, PhD | Scientist, Tiba Biotech LLC, Cambridge, MA | |
| Kurt Van Horn, PhD | Research Scientist, Avista Pharma Solutions, NC | |
| Punitha Vedantham, PhD | Organic / Medicinal Chemistry Specialist Vibrant Sciences, Burlingame, CA | |
| Yassir Younis Adam, PhD | Medicinal Chemist at MyoKardia, South San Francisco, CA |