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Principal Investigator

Professor John A. Porco, Jr. - B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 1985;  Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992

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Post-Doctoral Researcher

Davinia Fernández González PhD., Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering - EPFL (Switzerland) 2011

Project Area: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Phloroglucinol Natural Products

 

 

 

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Kiel Lazarski PhD., Northwestern University, 2012

Project Area: Synthesis and Biological Activity of Macrocarpal Natural Products

 

 

 

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Munmun Mukerjee PhD., Michigan State University, 2012

Project Area: Synthesis of Azaphilone Natural Products

 

 

 

6th Year Graduate Student

Andrew Little - B.S. DePaul University, 2007

Project Area: Synthesis of Polycyclic Xanthone Natural Products

 

 

 

6th Year Graduate Student

Yuan Xiong - B.S. Tsinghua University (PRC), 2007

Project Area: Synthesis of Sangennol Type Natural Products

 

 

 

5th Year Graduate Student

Anais Gervais - B.S. National Graduate School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - University of Montpellier (France) 2007

M.S. National Graduate School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering - University of Montpellier (France) 2009

Project Area: Synthesis of Tetramethylcyclohexenedione Natural Products

 

 

 

4th Year Graduate Student

Neil Lajkiewicz - B.A. Boston University, 2005

Project Area: Development of Asymmetric [3+2] Photocycloadditions

 

 

 

4th Year Graduate Student

Tian Qin - B.S.University of Science & Technology of China (China), 2007

Project Area: Synthesis of Tetrahydroxanthone Natural Products

 

 

 

3rd Year Graduate Student

Diane Hamann - B.S. Ecole superieure de Chimie Physique electronique de Lyon, (France) 2010

Project Area: Synthesis of Epipolythiodiketopiperazines

 

 

 

 

3rd Year Graduate Student

Robert Ziegler - B.S. College of William and Mary, 2010

Project Area: Synthesis of Alkaloid Natural Product

 

 

 

 

2nd Year Graduate Student

Jonathan Boyce - B.S. University of California, Berkeley, 2008

Project Area: Synthetic Methodology toward Natural Products Derived from Acylphloroglucinols

 

 

 

2nd Year Graduate Student

Nicholas Grigoriadis - B.A. Boston Unliversity, 2005

Project Area: Development of Asymmetric Oxidative Methodology for Natural Product Synthesis

 

 

 

2nd Year Graduate Student

Gina Kim - B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 2010

Project Area: Synthesis of Tetrahydroxanthone Natural Products

 

 

 

 

2nd Year Graduate Student

Chao Qi- B.S. Peking University Health Science Center , 2011

Project Area: Development of Diels-Alder Cycloadditions of 2'-hydroxychalcones and 2'-hydroxyflavones for Natural Product Synthesis

 

 

 

1st Year Graduate Student

Sarah Spiegel - B.A. Connecticut College, 2011

Project Area: Development of Asymmetric Biaryl Coupling Methodology

 

 

 

 

1st Year Graduate Student

Wenyu Wang - B.A. Wuhan University (China), 2011

Project Area: Synthesis of Flavonoid Natural Products

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Researcher

Zach Ariki - B.S. Boston University, (expt. 2014)

Project Area: Synthesis of Tetrahydroxanthone Natural Products

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Researcher

Steve Stone - B.S. Boston University, (expt. 2014)

Project Area: Development of Asymmetric [3+2] Photocycloadditions

 

 

Former Members

 

Post Doctoral Researchers
Current Position
Prof. Nicolas Rabasso
Paris-sud XI
Principal Scientist, Schering Plough Research Institute, Cambridge, MA
Dr. A. Jeevanandam
Pharm-Eco, Lexington, MA
CMLD Assistant Director, Boston University
Dr. Andreas Heutling
Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Manheim, Germany
Research Scientist, Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Prof. Stephane P. Roche
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Dr. Benedikt Crone
 
Dr. Christina Rodrigo
Dr. Dana Winter
 

 

Graduate Students
Degree (Year)
Current Position
Scott Magee
Suntory Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D.
Schering Plough Research Institute, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Chaomin Li
Ph.D.
Merck, Boston, MA
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at Colorado University at Boulder, CO
M.A. (2003)
Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
M.A. (2005)
Danielle Solano
M.A.
Graduate Student in Prof. Kurth's laboratory, Department of Chemistry, UC-Davis
Ph.D. (2006)
Epix Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA
Ph.D. (2006)
Assistant Investigator, Head of Chemistry Center
National Institute of Biological Sciences
Beijing, China
Ph.D. (2007)
Research Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb
Ph.D. (2007)
Assistant Professor at University of Toledo
Ph.D. (2007)
Post-doc, Wyeth Research,
Pearl River, N.Y.
Ph.D. (2007)
Senior Scientist, H3 Biomedicine Inc., Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. (2008)
Scientist, Small Molecule Process Chemistry, Genentec, San Francisco, CA
Ph.D. (2009)
Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. (2009)
Merck&Co Inc, Rahway, NJ
Dr. Andrew Kleinke
Ph.D. (2010)
Post-doc in Prof. Jamison's laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Suwei Dong
Ph.D. (2010)
Post-doc in Prof. Danishefsky's laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY
Dr. David Sloman
Ph.D. (2011)
Merck&Co Inc, Boston, MA
Dr. Stephen Scully
Ph.D. (2011)
Post-doc in Prof. Schreiber's laboratory, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Huan Cong
Ph.D. (2011)
Post-doc in Prof. Fu's laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Qiang Zhang
Ph.D. (2011)
Post-doc in Prof. Danishefsky's laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY
Dan Podgorski
M.A. (2012)
 

 

Visiting Scholars
Current Position
Prof. Cynthia McGowan
Merrimack College
Graduate Student at Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Jennifer Treece
Graduate Student in Department of Medicinal Chemistry at University of Kansas
Daisuke Suzuki
Graduate Student at Nagoya University

 

Undergraduate Students
Degree (Year)
Current Position
Cheng Ting Lin
B.A. Chemistry (2003)
M.Sc. Chemistry (2004)
Pharmacy Student, College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University
Jamie Ryan
B.A. Chemistry (2004)
c
Geekita Gupta
B.A. Chemistry (2005)
c
Olga Lehkekhman
B.A. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2006)
c
Dan Schmitt
B.A. Chemistry (2006)
Graduate Student in Prof. Johnson's laboratory, Department of Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill
Stephanie Chichetti
B.A. Chemistry (2006)
Merck, Boston, MA
Malca Watkins
c
B.A. Chemistry (2007)
Student at School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Adam Schell
B.A. Chemistry (2008)
Merck, Boston, MA
B.A. Chemistry (2009)
Denise Grunenfelder
B.A. Chemistry (2010)
Arthur Su
B.A. Chemistry (2011)
 

 

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