Doctoral Students:
Operations Manager
3D EnviroLogics, LLC
Consultant
Scientist
Meng-fei Ho, Ph.D. ’83
Postdoctoral Fellow: Rockefeller (E. T. Kaiser)
Ellen B. Barrabee, Ph.D. ’83
Sr. Principal Scientist
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Siegfried B. Christensen, Ph.D. ’84
Loan T. Nguyen, M.D. Ph.D. ’84
Physician
Steven G. Davis, Ph.D. ’85
Attorney
McCarter and English, LLP
Gino M. Salituro, Ph.D. ’86
Director in DMPK
Merck
Shi-Shan Mao, Ph.D. ’87
Postdoctoral Fellow: M.I.T. (J. Stubbe)
Research Specialist
Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica
Susan W. Brobst, Ph.D. ’88
Program Officer
Therapeutics Research Program
Division of AIDS
NIAID, NIH
Brenda A. Wilson, Ph.D. ’88
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (R. J. Collier)
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Todd L. Graybill, Ph.D. ’90
Manager, Molecular Discovery Research, Platform Technology, & Science
Glaxo SmithKline Laboratories
Walter J. Krol, Ph.D. ’91
Postdoctoral Fellow: Rockefeller (S. J. Danishefsky)
Research Chemist
American Cyanamid Co.
Dirk Reuyl, Ph.D. ’92
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Utah (C. D. Poulter
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Portland State University
Sean M. McGuire, Ph.D. ’92
Jon J. Hangeland,Ph.D. ’92
Postdoctoral Fellow: Johns Hopkins (P. S. Miller)
Senior Research Investigator
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Pharmaceutical Research Group
Anne McE. Reeve, Ph.D. ’92
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Messiah College
Margaret D.-T. Chang, Ph.D. ’93
Professor
Department of Life Science
National Tsing Hua University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Laura A. Egan Pontzer, Ph.D. ’96
Research Scientist
Alpharma, U.S. Pharmaceuticals Div., Inc.
Eduard G. Casillas, Ph.D. ’96
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Rochester (R. K. Boeckman)
Associate Professor
Graduate Chair
Department of Chemistry
Villanova University
Robert W. Busby, Ph.D. ’96
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Michigan (M. A. Marletta)
Pharmaceutical R&D Consultant
Busby Pharma Consulting, LLC
Jeffrey C. Silva, Ph.D. ’96
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (C. T. Walsh)
Founder & CEO
Lighthouse Proteomics, LLC
Tung-Kung Wu, Ph.D. ’96
Postdoctoral Fellow: Stanford (J. H. Griffin)
Professor
Department of Biol. Sci. and Technol.
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan
Coran M. H. Watanabe, Ph.D. ’98
Life Sciences Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (P. G. Schultz)
Scripps
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Texas A&M University
Linda K. Neely Casillas, Ph.D. ’99
Director
Medicinal Chemistry
Glaxo SmithKline Laboratories
Steven D. Breazeale, Ph.D. ’99
Postdoctoral Fellow: Duke (C. R. H. Raetz)
Senior Scientist
L1Agrosciences
Nusrat Khaleeli, Ph.D. ’00
Adjunct Instructor
UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley
Founder
Khala Consultants
Gojeb L. Frehywot, Ph.D. ’00
Student
Harvard Law School
Harvard University
Minwan Wu, Ph.D. ’00
Research Chemist
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Brian O. Bachmann, Ph.D. ’00
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Vanderbilt University
Mary F. (Tofani) Kawa, M.A. ’02
Chemist
Syracuse Research Corporation
Katherine I. (Miller) Needleman, M.A. ’02
Regulatory Project Manager/CSO
Office of Therapeutics Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Kevin M. Henry, Ph.D. ’02
Technology Specialist
Wolf, Greenfield, & Sacks, P.C.
Daniel W. Udwary, Ph.D. ’03
Postdoctoral Fellow: Scripps Inst. of Oceanography (B. S. Moore)
Bioinformatics Computing Consultant
Berkeley Lab
Michele Gunsior, Ph.D. ’03
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Scientist II
MedImmune
Wendy L. Kelly, R.Ph. Ph.D. ’03
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (C. T. Walsh)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
Anthony Stapon, Ph.D. ’03
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (D. E. Kahne)
Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA)
Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Minerva A. Hughes, Ph. D. ’06
Research Scientist
Cato Research, Ltd.
Kristin A. LeChevet, M.A. ’06
High School Teacher
Matthew T. Merski, Ph.D. ’07
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, San Francisco (B. K. Shoichet)
Adjunct Researcher
Department of Chemistry
University of Warsaw
Jason M. Crawford, Ph.D. ’07
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (J. Clardy)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Yale University
Samantha O. Arnett, Ph.D. ’08
Postdoctoral Fellow: Scripps (D. Burton)
Acting Deputy Team Chief – Biosecurity Engagement Program
U.S. Department of State
Michael F. Freeman, Ph.D. ’08
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Bonn (J. Piel)
Assistant Professor
College of Biological Sciences
University of Minnesota
Mary L. Raber, Ph.D. ’09
Auxiliary Faculty, Sr Lecturer
The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy
Medical Writer & Scientific Strategy Consultant
Raber Communications, LLC
Micah J. Bodner, Ph.D. ’10
Senior Chemist
Organic Consultants, Inc.
Edward A. Wydysh, Ph.D. ’10
Consultant
Health Advances
Kristos A. Moshos, Ph.D. ’11
Scientist
Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Ryan M. Phelan, Ph.D. ’11
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of California, Berkeley (J. D. Keasling)
Jason W. Labonte, Ph.D. ’11
Postdoctoral Fellow: Johns Hopkins (J. J. Gray)
Anna L. Vagstad, Ph.D. ’12
Postdoctoral Fellow: ETH Zurich (J. Piel)
Jeanne M. Davidsen, Ph.D. ’12
Staff Scientist
Verto Solutions
Katherine Belecki, Ph.D. ’13
Research Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Andrew Buller, Ph.D. ’13
Postdoctoral Fellow: Caltech (F. H. Arnold)
Nicole Gaudelli, Ph.D. ’13
Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard (D. R. Liu)
Victor K. Outlaw, Ph.D. ’15
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Wisconsin-Madison (S. H. Gellman)
Daniel R. Marous, Ph.D. ’15
Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Notre Dame (S. Mobashery)
Adam G. Newman, Ph.D. ’15
Graduate Scholar
Bayer Cropscience
Evan P. Lloyd, Ph.D. ’17
Postdoctoral Fellow: Applied Physics Laboratory
Post Doctoral Researchers:
Ph.D. UNC, Chapel Hill (M. S. Brookhart)
Department of Chemistry
Meredith CollegeMichael J. DiNovi, ’82-’85
Ph.D. University of Columbia (K. Nakanishi)
Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety & Appl. NutritionPaul R. O. Whittamore, ’84-’86
Ph.D. Cambridge University (J. Staunton)
ICI Pharmaceuticals Div.
Alderley Park, United KingdomKathleen A. Plavcan, ’85-’86
Ph.D. Cornell (J. Meinwald)
Scientist
Pfizer, Inc.Yasuo Isomura, ’85-’86
Ph.D. University of Tokyo (U. Sankawa)
Scientist
Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.
Itabushi-ku
Tokyo, JapanShanta Bantia, ’85-’86
Ph.D. University of Maryland (R. M. Pollack)
Section Head
Biological Sciences
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Kollol Pal, ’87-’89
Ph.D. M.I.T. (R. L. Danheiser)
CEO
Rishi Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Scott P. Salowe, ’87-’90
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (J. Stubbe)
Research Fellow
Merck, Sharp, & Dohme Research Laboratories
E. Neil G. Marsh, ’88-’90
Ph.D. Cambridge University (P. A. Leadlay)
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Michigan
Amit Basak, ’87-’91
Ph.D. University of Oxford (J. E. Baldwin)
Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
West Bengal, India
James J. DeVoss, ’88-’91
Ph.D. Cambridge University (A. R. Battersby)
Senior Lecturer
Department of Chemistry
University of Queensland
St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Clifton E. Barry III, ’89-’91
Ph.D. Cornell (T. P. Begley)
Chief
Tuberculosis Research Section
Laboratory of Host Defenses
NIAID, NIH
Katherine D. Cramer, ’90-’92
Ph.D. University of Illinois (S. C. Zimmerman)
Mother
Koren A. Holland, ’90-’92
Ph.D. University of Maryland (J. W. Kozarich)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Gettysburg College
Douglas B. McIlwaine, ’90-’93
Ph.D. Brown (D. E. Cane)
Project Scientist
Microbiocides
Specialty Chemicals Div.
Union Carbide
Moneesh Chatterjee, ’91-’95
Ph.D. SUNY, Stony Brook (S. E. Rokita)
Senior Research Investigator
Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Chun-Gyu Kim, ’94-’95
Ph.D. Washington (H. G. Floss)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Inje University
Kyongnam, Korea
Paul J. Smith, ’93-’95
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (C. S. Wilcox)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Maryland Baltimore County
James W. Janc, ’91-’95
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (W. W. Cleland)
Director
Cellular & Molecular Biology
TheraSense, Inc.
Robert J. Duff, ’93-’96
Ph.D. Virginia (S. J. Hecht)
(unknown)
Todd A. Houston, ’93-’96
Ph.D. University of Michigan (M. Koreeda)
Research Leader and Senior Lecturer
Institute for Glycomics
Griffith University
Queensland, Australia
Janos Pitlik, ’93-’97
Ph.D. Research Group for Antibiotics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Staff Investigator
Medicinal Chemistry
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Robert E. Minto, ’94-’97
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (R. C. Bergman)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Neelakhanda S. Mani, ’93-’97
Ph.D. I.I.T., Bangalore (G. S. R. SubbaRao)
Senior Scientist
Drug Discovery
R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Joanne T. Blanchfield, ’96-’98
Ph.D. University of Queensland (W. Kitching)
Lecturer
Molecular & Microbial Science
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Doris Stoermer, ’96-’98
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (C. H. Heathcock)
Research Scientist
3M Pharmaceuticals
Gregory L. Challis, ’98-’00
Ph.D. Oxford (J. E. Baldwin)
Professor of Chemical Biology
Department of Chemistry
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
Paul B. Jones, ’98-’00
Ph.D. Duke (N. A. Porter)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Wake Forest University
Timothy S. Hitchman, ’98-’00
Ph.D. University of Bristol (T. J. Simpson)
Research Scientist
Diversa Corp.
Eric W. Schmidt, ’99-’01
Ph.D. Scripps UCSD (D. J. Faulkner)
Associate Professor
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
University of Utah
Jacques Ravel, ’99-’02
Ph.D. University of Maryland (F. Robb, R. Hill)
Associate Professor
Institute for Genome Sciences
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Fumitaka Kudo, ’00-’02
Ph.D. Tokyo Institute of Technology (K. Kakinuma)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Jason D. Galpin, ’00-’03
Ph.D. University of British Columbia (M. E. Tanner)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University
Jill M. McFadden, ’00-’03
Ph.D. University of Nebraska (D. B. Berkowitz)
Scientist
Aerie Pharmaceuticals
Barbara Gerratana, ’01-’04
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (P. A. Frey & W. W. Cleland)
Program Director
Division of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biological Chemistry
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
David M. Bartley, ’04-’06
Ph.D. University of Michigan (J. K. Coward)
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Detroit, Mercy
Tsion Bililign, ’04-’06
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin (J. S. Thorson)
Scientist III, Analytical
Biovail Technologies, Ltd.
Jonathan R. Scheerer
Ph.D. Harvard (D. A. Evans)
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
College of William and Mary
Martina Adams
Ph.D. ETH Zurich (A. Vasella)
Consultant
The Boston Consulting Group
Jesse Li, ’11-’13
Ph.D. University of Alberta (J. C. Vederas)
Research Scientist I, Gilead
Courtney Hastings, ’11-’14
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (R. G. Bergman and K. N. Raymond)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Loyola University Maryland