Graduate Students
Franco Llamas (MS 2023)
Production Chemist, PolyPeptide
Joe Capani Jr. (PhD 2023)
Medicinal Chemist, Eikon Therapeutics
Bonnie Pak (PhD 2023)
Medicinal Chemist, Takeda San Diego
Scott Niman (PhD 2023)
Medicinal Chemist, Cogent Biosciences
Riley Mills (PhD 2022)
Medicinal Chemist, 858 Therapeutics
Natalie Dwulet (PhD 2022)
Medicinal Chemist, Pfizer Colorado
Ryan Kozlowski (PhD 2022)
Medicinal Chemist, Takeda San Diego
Darius Vrubliauskas (PhD 2021)
Medicinal Chemist, InCyte
Glynis Coyne (MS 2020)
Discovery Chemist, Pfizer Groton
Bryan Ellis (PhD 2019)
Discovery Chemist, Pfizer Colorado
Sharon Michalak (PhD 2019)
Process Chemist, Amgen Thousand Oaks
Michael Freidberg (MS 2019)
Medicinal Chemist, DiCE Molecules, San Francisco
Brian Atwood (PhD 2018)
Postdoc with Prof. Mike Jung, UCLA
Application Scientist, Iktos, Los Angeles
Alex Karns (PhD 2018)
Discovery Chemistry, Vertex Boston
Alex White (PhD 2017)
Postdoc with Dave Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill
Discovery Chemist, FMC
Zef Könst (PhD 2016)
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, San Francisco
Medicinal Chemist, Nurix Pharmaceuticals
Medicinal Chemist, Schrödinger, NYC
Dmitriy Uchenik (PhD 2016)
Director, Mass Spectrometry Facility, UCSB
Senior Research Specialist, Ohio State University
Philipp Roosen (PhD 2016)
Process Chemist, Amgen Thousand Oaks
Process Chemist, Pfizer Groton
Mary Beth Daub (PhD 2016)
NIH Postdoc with Prof. Tehshik Yoon, UW Madison
Assistant Professor, Furman University
Carl Vogel (PhD 2015)
Discovery Chemist, Vertex San Diego
Gregg Schwarzwalder (PhD 2015)
NIH Postdoc with Prof. Gregory Fu, CalTech
Medicinal Chemist, Gilead Sciences, San Francisco
Samuel Tartakoff (PhD 2015)
Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University
Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University
Joseph Carlson (PhD 2015)
Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories
Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories
Founder, BlueShift Optics
Jonathan Lam (PhD 2014)
Postdoc with Prof. Richard Schrock, MIT
Medicinal Chemist, Amgen Boston
Medicinal Chemist, Takeda San Diego
Evan Horn (PhD 2013)
Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Phil Baran, Scripps
Discovery Chemist, Celgene San Diego
Principal Scientist, Treeline Biosciences, San Diego
Judy Suh (MS 2013)
Anne Szklarski (PhD 2013)
Assistant Professor, Kings’ College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Theo Michels (PhD 2012)
Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Dale Boger, Scripps
Medicinal Chemist, eFFECTOR Therapeutics, San Diego
Senior Scientist, Gossamer Bio, San Diego
Sarah Steinhardt (PhD 2011)
Senior Principal Scientist, Process Chemistry, BMS
David Martin (PhD 2011)
Postdoctoral associate with Prof. David MacMillan, Princeton
Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Karl Bedke (PhD 2011)
Medicinal Chemist, Amgen San Francisco
Medicinal Chemist, Peloton Biosciences, Dallas, TX
Medicinal Chemist, Vividion, San Diego
Grant Shibuya (PhD 2010)
Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Brian Stoltz at CalTech
Postdoctoral associate with Prof. Noah Burns at Stanford
Medicinal Chemist at SiteOne Therapeutics
Medicinal Chemist at RAPT Therapeutics
Matt Dowling (PhD 2010)
Medicinal Chemist at Pfizer Groton
Scott Joseph (MS 2010)
Associate Chemist at Gelest
Research Chemist at Universal Display
Medicinal Chemist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Matt Kier (MS 2010)
Analytical Chemist, Jordi Labs
Chemist, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories
Graduate student with Prof. Glenn Micalizio at Dartmouth (PhD 2020)
Chemist at Hansoh Bio
Joel Silverston (2005–2008)
Scott Halpern (MS 2008)
Medicinal Chemist, BMS New Jersey
Dustin Dixon (MS 2007)
Optometrist, Eye Specialists of Mid Florida
Aaron Kearney (MS 2007)
Medicinal Chemist, Janssen San Diego
Postdoctoral Scholars
Fabian Hörmann (2021–2022)
Process Chemist, ThermoFisher
Jonathan Chung (2018–2021)
Discovery Chemist, BMS New Jersey
Milandip Karak (2018–2020)
Senior Research Scientist, TCG Life Sciences, Kolkata
Ramakrishna Kankanala (2018–2020)
Senior Research Investigator, Biocon Bristol–Myers Squibb Research Center, Bangalore
Daniele Perrotta (Swiss NSF Postdoc, 2018–2020)
Research Chemist, Syngenta
Vincenzo Ramella (DFG Postdoc, 2018–2020)
Laboratory Head, Chemical Development, Bayer
Matthias Göhl (DFG Postdoc, 2017–2019)
Postdoc with Prof. Mark Brönstrup
Florian de Nanteuil (Swiss NSF Postdoc, 2015–2016)
Discovery Chemistry, Firmenich, Geneva, CH
Industrial Academic Liaison, SwissCat and EPFL, Lausanne, CH
Allen Hong (NIH Postdoc, 2013–2015)
Discovery Chemist, Genentech
Diane Lim (A*STAR Postdoc, 2013–2014)
Research Scientist, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, A*STAR, Singapore
Won-jin Chung (Postdoc 2011–2014)
Assistant Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Associate Professor, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Peter Mai (Postdoc 2011–2013)
Postdoc with Prof Ryan Baxter, UC Merced
Head of Business Development, BlueShift Optics
Yvonne Schmidt (Humboldt Postdoc 2011–2013)
Medicinal Chemistry, Vertex San Diego
Jong-Uk Rhee (postdoc 2006–2008)
Medicinal Chemistry at Kosan Biosciences
Chemist at Contract Research Organizations
Self-employed accountant
Undergraduates
Bilal Saudi (2018–2019)
Michael Lehmann (2018–2019)
Gavin Smith (post-bac 2018–2019?)
Graduate student at Emory University with Prof. Nathan Jui and Prof. Will Wuest
Sierra Nguyen (2017–2019)
Medicinal Chemistry, Genentech
Applying to MD/PhD programs
Yiyang (Susanna) Liang (2016–2018)
Graduate student at UNC Chapel Hill with Prof. Dave Nicewicz
Kimberly Buck (2018)
Kathy Dao (2014–2016)
Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead Sciences
Sean Feng (2012–2014)
Graduate student with Prof. Sarah Reisman, CalTech (PhD 2020)
Gilead Sciences
David Liu (2012–2014)
MD/PhD Vanderbilt University (2019)
Resident, Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Danny Hadaya (2013)
Dental School, UCLA (PhD and DDS)
Resident, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, UCLA
Lucas Nguyen
Graduate student with Prof. Robert Knowles, Princeton (PhD 2017)
Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories
Spencer Wood (2010–2012)
Graduate student with Prof. Bill Roush at Scripps Florida (PhD 2017)
Senior Research Scientist, Metabolon, Chapel Hill, NC
Lindsay Smith (2009–2010)
Graduate student with Prof. Armen Zakarian at UCSB
Analyst, Advera Health Analytics
Staff Scientist, K Prime Inc.
Manufacturing Chemist, Biosearch Technologies
Chemst, Pure Analytics Lab
Analytical Chemist, Alpha Analytical
Tim Blake (2008–2010)
Graduate student with Prof. Robert Waymouth at Stanford (PhD 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow with Profs. Robert Waymouth, Paul Wender, and Ronald Levy
Stanford Cancer Nanotechnology and SPARK Fellow
John Nguyen (postbac 2008–2009)
Graduate student with Prof. Corey Stephenson at Boston University (PhD 2015)
Postdoc with Prof. Steve Buchwald at MIT
Technology Specialist, Wolf Greenfield
Business Development Manager, Millipore Sigma
Tram Nguyen (2008–2009)
Pharmacist
Jacob Kanady (2007–2009)
Graduate student with Prof. Theo Agapie at CalTech (PhD 2014)
Postdoc with Prof. Paul Alivisatos at Stanford
Senior Scientist at Irvine Ranch Water District
Kim Caponera (2007–2008)
Research Chemist at Glumetrics, Inc.
Evan Johnson (2006–2007)
Chemist, Cennomed Biosciences
Associate Chemist, Pacific World Discovery
Cannabis Chemistry Consultant
Visiting Scholars
Julian David Bendix (2022–2023)
Visiting MSc student from University of Münster with Prof. Ryan Gilmour
Phongprapan (Torric) Nimnual (2018–2019)
Visiting PhD student from Chulabhorn Graduate Institute with Prof. Jumreang Tummatorn (PhD 2019)
Postdoctoral Researcher at Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC)
Shun Kitahata (2019)
Visiting PhD student from Hokkaido University with Prof. Satoshi Ichikawa (2019)
Research Chemist at Shionogi, Osaka
Kathrin Siebold (2019–2020)
Visiting MSc student from University of Münster with Prof. Ryan Gilmour
Benjamin Gross (2019–2020)
Visiting MSc student from University of Berlin with Prof. Martin Oestreich
Graduate studies at CalTech with Prof. Brian Stoltz
Yichen Liu (2018)
Visiting undergraduate student from Fudan University
PhD student with Prof. Ran Hong, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Michael Schafer (2018)
Visiting MSc student from University of Münster with Prof. Ryan Gilmour
Guillaume Masson (2015)
Visiting undergraduate from Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris
Graduate student at ESPCI with Prof. Janine Cossy (PhD 2019)
Postdoctoral Researcher at CNRS/NovAlix, Strasbourg, France
