Former Post-doctoral Research Associates
Guojun Pan, Ph.D.
Next stop: Research Associate, UCSB
Kotaro Iwasaki, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Tohoku University (Japan)
Yusuke Sasano, Ph.D.
Tohoku University
Francis Barabe, Ph.D.
University of Ottawa
Akiko Yago, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Nagoya University
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad
Masaki Ohtawa, Ph.D.
Currently: Lecturer, Kitasato University
Uehara Memorial Foundation Research Fellowship
Erik Plata, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Takuya Oguma, Ph.D.
Currently: Shionogi Ltd
Yusuke Hanaki, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Kagawa University
Akihiro Kuroo, Ph.D.
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, PeptiDream
Sergey Pronin, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Norihiro Tada, Ph.D.
Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Haihua Lu, Ph.D.
Central China Normal University
Carla Obradors Llobet, Ph.D.
Institut Catalá d’Investigació Química (ICIQ)
Albert Oppedisano, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna (Nuno Maulide)
Shun Hirasawa, MSc.
Currently: Process Chemistry, Astellas Pharma, Inc.
Mike Lambrecht, Ph.D.
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Genetech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Suhelen Vásquez-Céspedes, Ph.D.
Currently: Process Chemistry, Dow Agrosciences, Indianapolis, IN
Guanghu Tong, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (Jamison Group)
Ryota Sato, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Tokushima University
Stephen Ting, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Students
Eleanor Landwehr, Ph.D.
Nathan Dao, Ph.D.
Vincent van der Puyl, Ph.D.
Simona Kotesova, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH Zürich (Morandi)
Stone Woo, Ph.D.
Currently: Merck, Medicinal Chemistry
Sarah Hill, Ph.D.
Currently: Treeline Biosciences, Medicinal Chemistry
Tucker Huffman, Ph.D.
Currently: Neomorph, Medicinal Chemistry
Sophie Shevick, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (Jacobsen)
Meghan Baker, Ph.D.
Currently: Merck, Discovery Process Chemistry
Benjamin Huffman, Ph.D.
Currently: Denali Therapeutics, Medicinal Chemistry
Robert Demoret, Ph.D.
Currently: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Medicinal Chemistry
Samantha Green, Ph.D.
Currently: Genentech, Medicinal Chemistry
Hannah Burdge, M.S.
Currently: Pfizer, Medicinal Chemistry
Jeishla Melendez-Matos, Ph.D.
Currently: BMS, Process Chemistry
Steven W.M. Crossley, Ph.D.
Currently: Merck, Process Chemistry
Ruben Martinez, Ph.D.
Currently: Eli Lilly, Medicinal Chemistry
Jeremy Roach, Ph.D.
Currently: Proteovant Therapeutics, Medicinal Chemistry
Michael Martinez, M.S.
Chris Reiher, Ph.D.
Currently: GSK, Process Chemistry
Dan Jansen, Ph.D.
Currently: Drug Substance Reviewer, Product Quality
US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Greg Tabor, Ph.D.
Currently: GSK, Medicinal Chemistry
Kanny Wan, Ph.D.
Currently: Medicinal Chemist, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
Sebastián Guevara-Zuluaga, B.S.
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
Jim Colombe, Ph.D. (Buchwald group, MIT)
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
Former Visiting Students
Hiroki Kato, M.Sc. (Waseda University)
Kenta Yokoi, B.A. (University of Tokyo)
Ruairi McCourt, B.Sc. (Trinity College Dublin)
Nikolaj Villadsen, B.S. (Aarhus University, Thomas B. Poulsen)
Amanda Marques (Fluminense Federal University)
Luca Schwarz, B.Sc. (University of Münster)
Florian Clausen, B.Sc. (University of Münster)
Alexis Emmerich, B.Sc. (University of Münster)
Annabell Martin, B.Sc. (University of Heidelberg)
Former Undergraduate Students
Alberto Castanedo (UCSD)
Jingyang Shi (Lanzhou University)
Joshua Savage (SDSU)
Kelly Chun
Min Cho (UCSD)
Zefeng “Kirby” Chen
Jieyu “Jess” Gu
Yichao “Tom” Yan
David Shia
Jesus Morena
Cesar Deleon
Derek Barbas
