People

Current lab members

 

Who

Research interests

Principal investigator

Adam Renslo, PhD

Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

co-Founder, Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC)

[email protected]

415-514-9698

iron in biology and disease, drug discovery for cancer and infectious disease

Postdoctoral fellows

Eric Hantz, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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empirical and computational studies of intermolecular interactions

Gilles DeGotte, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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medicinal chemistry, TREK-1 agonists, antivirals
Luca Lizzadro, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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medicinal chemistry, antibacterial and antivirals
Takaya Togo, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
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medicinal chemistry, antivirals, molecular glues for procaspase-6

Graduate Students

Klope

Matthew Klope
CCB Graduate Student (5th year)
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chemical biology, inhibiting translation repression in eukaryotic parasites

Jules Brunello
CCB Graduate Student (incoming 1st year, rotating)
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chemical biology tools to study labile heme iron
Vineet Mathur
CCB Graduate Student (2nd year)
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conditionally-activated liposomes for drug delivery
Linh Tram
CCB Graduate Student (3rd year)
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chemical biology tools to study labile iron, chemoproteomics 

Jeffrey Zheng
CCB Graduate Student (1st year)
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antibiotic drug discovery, fundamental studies of intermolecular interactions

Staff scientists

Jaishankar

Priya Jaishankar, MS
Specialist, Group Leader and Lab Manager
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medicinal chemistry, lead discovery and optimization for novel anti-infectives

Administration

Olson

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

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

Ryan Gonciarz, PhD Scientist, Exelixis, Alameda, CA
Xochina El Hilali, PhD Associate Consultant at IQVIA, San Francisco, CA
Elizabeth Johnson, PhD Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA
Allejandra Gallardo-Godoy, PhD Senior Researcher, University of Queensland, Australia

Brian Hearn, PhD

Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Olema Oncology, San Francisco, CA

Erica Lauterwasser, PhD

Scientist, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Sumit Mahajan, PhD

Principle Scientific Researcher, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA

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

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