Medicinal Chemistry Faculty and Staff
Chair of Medicinal Chemistry
Focus areas: Synthetic mimetics of glycosaminoglycans, allosteric modulators of coagulation factors, computational biology of glycosaminoglycans, medicinal chemistry of anti-cancer stem cell agents, biochemical mechanism of thrombopoiesis activation
Professor
Focus areas: Neuropsychiatric disorders (AD, depression, drugs of abuse, schizophrenia, pain) and their targets (LGIC receptors (nAChR, 5-HT3R); GPCRs (5-HT2, 5-HT2/mGlu2); transporters (SERT, DAT, NET, OCT1-3))
Interim Program Director, B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Focus areas: Early-stage drug hit & lead discovery, synthetic chemistry methodology development, discovery & development of oncology agents, natural products as chemical probes & drug leads, small molecule drug discovery & development
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Membrane protein structural biology, structure-based drug design, cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, polymer chemistry
Professor Emeritus
Focus areas: Computational medicinal chemistry, computer-aided drug discovery, structural biology
Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Cancer biology, cancer epigenetics, transcriptional regulation, drug discovery
Research Associate Professor
Focus areas: X-ray Crystallography, structure-function studies of macromolecules, structure-based drug design, protein-ligand, protein-DNA interactions
Research Scientist
Focus areas: Computational structural biology, glycobiology, drug discovery, virtual screening, molecular dynamics simulation, docking, algorithm design, AI, and crystallography
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Drug discovery and development, structure-based drug design, pharmacology, chemical biology, structure biology
Professor
Focus areas: Protein structure/function relationships, x-ray crystallography, hemoglobin allosteric effectors, sickle cell disease drug discovery, vitamin B6 metabolism and regulation
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Focus area: Structure based drug design and development
Professor
Focus areas: Small molecule drug discovery, Alzheimer's diseases, chemical biology, Imaging probe development
