Group Members
Former Members
Visiting Researchers
Kenichi Murai
Visiting from Osaka University
Joined in: 2015
Yasuo Hirooka
Ph.D.: University of Shizuoka
Member: April 2016 – April 2017
Kenji Usui
Ph. D.: Waseda University
Member: October 2016 – September 2017
Hirofumi Ueda
Ph. D. Tohoku University
Member: June 2019 – December 2019
Dr. Kotaro Kikushima
Ph. D. Osaka University
Member: September 2022 – February 2023
Dr. Motohiro Fujiu
Ph. D. Kobe Pharmaceutical University
Member: January 2024 – January 2025
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Basvoju A. Bhanu Prasad
Ph. D. IIT Kanpur, India
Currently: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Houston (Gilberson)
Alakesh Bisai
Ph. D. IIT Kanpur, India
Currently: Assistant Professor, IISER Bhopal
Joined in: 2006
John Maina Mdungu
Ph. D. University of Arizona
Currently: Postdoctoral researcher, Emory University (Liotta/Snyder)
Tuanli (Tony) Yao
Ph. D. Iowa State University
Currently: Senior Scientist, Deciphera Pharma. (Lawrence, KS)
Stephen Born
Ph. D. UC San Diego
Joined in: 2009
Daniel Fischer
Ph. D. ETH Zurich
Currently: Chemist, Evonik Degussa
Vishnumaya
Ph. D. IIT Kanpur, India
Currently: Assistant Professor, NITTTR Bhopal
Terry Lebold
Ph. D. University of Western Ontario
Currently: Janssen
Joined in: 2010
Ethan Fisher
Ph. D. Columbia University
Currently: Pfizer
Joined in: 2011
Pablo Garcia Reynaga
Ph. D. Indiana University – Bloomington
Currently: Dart NeuroScience
Joined in: 2011
Andre Isaacs
Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania
Currently: Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
Joined in: 2011
Timothy Beng
Ph. D. University of Buea, Cameroon
Currently: Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
Joined in: 2012
Toshihiro Kiho
Ph. D. University of Tokyo
Currently: Daiichi-Sankyo
Joined in: 2012
David Lapointe
Ph. D. University of Ottawa
Joined in: 2012
Devon Mundal
Ph. D. Northwestern University
Currently: Gilead
Joined in: 2012
Caroline Bischof
Ph. D. Ruhr-University Bochum
Joined in: 2013
Svitlana Kulyk
Ph. D. Temple University
Currently: Theravance
Joined in: 2013
Jack Lee
Ph. D. University of Alberta
Currently: Pfizer
Joined in: 2013
Theresa Liang
Ph. D. Harvard University
Currently: Chevron
Joined in: 2013
Vincent Lindsay
Ph. D. University of Montreal
Currently: Assistant Professor at NC State University
Joined in: 2013
Ahmad Masarwa
Ph. D. Technion – Israel IT
Currently: Assistant Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joined in: 2013
Steffen Romanski
Ph. D. University of Cologne
Joined in: 2013
Manuel Weber
Ph. D. University of Stuttgart
Currently: Bachem
Joined in: 2013
Helene Viart
Ph. D. Tech. University of Denmark (DTU)
Joined in: 2013
Yingda Ye
Ph. D. University of Michigan
Currently: Incyte
Joined in: 2013
Johannes Kaschel
Ph. D. University of Goettingen
Currently: AbbVie
Joined in: 2014
Louis Morill
Ph. D. University of St. Andrews
Currently: Assistant Professor, Cardiff University
Joined in: 2014
Stanley Chang
Ph. D. Simon Fraser University
Currently: Gilead
Member: July 2015 – August 2016
Danilo Pereira de Santana
Ph. D. UNICAMP
Currently: UNICAMP
Member: January 2015 – January 2017
Ken Mukai
Ph. D. University of Tokyo
Member: January 2015 – March 2017
Benjamin Wyler
Ph. D. University of Bern
Currently: Lonza
Member: March 2016 – April 2017
Shota Sawano
Ph. D. Kyoto University
Currently: Idemitsu
Member: August 2015 – June 2016
Peter Finkbeiner
Ph. D. University of Tübingen
Member: July 2016 – September 2017
Isabel Kerschgens
Ph. D. University of Basel
Currently: Bayer
Member: February 2017 – April 2018
Magnus Pfaffenbach
Ph. D. University of Constance
Currently: Biogen
Member: February 2017 – March 2018
Kevin Kou
Ph. D. University of Toronto
Currently: Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Member: January 2015 – June 2018
Yusuke Kuroda
Ph. D. Kyoto University
Member: June 2016 – May 2018
Marcus Blümel
Ph. D. RWTH Aachen University
Currently: BASF
Member: October 2017 – June 2018
David Stephens
Ph. D. UT San Antonio
Currently: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Member: December 2016 – September 2018
Shota Nagasawa
Ph. D. Tohoku University
Member: June 2017 – March 2019
Nick O'Connor
Ph. D. Caltech
Member: March 2017 – March 2019
Philipp Gritsch
Ph. D. Leibniz University Hannover
Member: October 2016 – April 2019
Cedric Hugelshofer
Ph. D. LMU Munich
Currently: Merck
Member: February 2017 – June 2019
Alexander Rovira
Ph. D. UC San Diego
Currently: Janssen
Joined: February 2018
Solène Miaskiewicz
Ph. D. University of Strasbourg
Joined: May 2018
Stefan Payer
Ph. D. University of Graz
Joined: January 2019
Max Haider
Ph. D. Vienna University
Joined: June 2018
Hannah Haley
Ph. D. University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
Joined: August 2019
Goh Sennari
Ph. D. Kitasato University
Joined: 2018
Martin Petzold
Ph. D. Technical University of Braunschweig
Joined: 2021
Taku Okada
Ph. D. Hokkaido University
Joined: 2019
Michael Black
Ph. D. Princeton University
Joined: 2020
Daniel Lücke
Ph. D. Leibniz University Hanover
Joined: 2022
Pierre Thesmar
Ph. D. University of Basel
Joined: 2022
Dr. Stefan Wiesler
Ph.D. University of Freiburg
Joined: 2021
Dr. Christina Na
Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill
Joined: 2020
Dr. Sota Akiyama
Ph.D. Hokkaido University
Joined: 2021
Dr. Alexander Kremsmair
Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Currently: Dow
Member: July 2023 – December 2024
Graduate Students
Eric Bunnelle
B.S. University of Illinois
Currently: Exxon-Mobil
Joined in: 2004
Kimberly Larson
B.S. Southwestern University
Currently: DuPont
Joined in: 2004
Andrew Marcus
A. B. Harvard University
Currently: Vitae Pharmaceuticals
Joined in: 2004
Eric Simmons
B.A. Tufts University
Currently: BMS Process
Joined in: 2004
Sarah House
B.A. Florida State University
Currently: Dow Chemicals
Joined in: 2005
Laura Miller
B.A. Macalester College
Currently: Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
Joined in: 2005
Brian Pujanauski
B.S. University of Wisconsin
Currently: AP&T
Joined in: 2005
Cameron Smith
B.S. California State University, Long Beach
Currently: Theravance
Joined in: 2005
Scott West
B.S. Tufts University
Currently: Chevron
Joined in: 2005
Jesse Cortez
B.A. Rice University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Pam England
Joined in: 2006
Alison Hardin Narayan
B.S. University of Michigan
Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Joined in: 2006
Paul Karayan
B.A. Duke University
Currently: Addepar
Joined in: 2006
Massoud Motamed
B.S. Southern Methodist University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Bert O’Malley
Joined in: 2006
Mike Purdham
B.S. Gustavus College
Joined in: 2007
Jessica Wood
B.S. University of North Dakota
Currently: Dow AgroSciences
Joined in: 2007
Jenna Jeffrey
B.S. University of Oregon
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Dave MacMillan
Joined in: 2008
Saeed Alzghari
B.S. Texas Christian University
Joined in: 2009
Gary Gallego
B.S. Cal State Fullerton
Currently: Pfizer
Joined in: 2009
Amy Hamlin
B.S. University of Detroit Mercy
Currently: Ash Stevens
Joined in: 2009
Steve Heller
B.S. University of Chicago
Currently: Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University – Los Angeles
Joined in: 2009
Jessica Kisunzu
B.S. Southern Adventist University
Currently: Assistant Professor at Colorado College
Joined in: 2009
Rebecca Murphy
B.S. University of Rochester
Currently: Pfizer
Joined in: 2009
Erica Schultz
B.A. Macalester College
Currently: Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College
Joined in: 2009
Josh Deitch
B.A. University of Pennsylvania
Joined in: 2010
Sidney Hill
B.S. North Carolina State University
Currently: Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
Joined in: 2010
Raul Leal
B.S. Binghamton U – SUNY
Joined in: 2010
Jim Newton
B.S. Purdue University
Currently: AbbVie
Joined in: 2010
Christopher Marth
B.S. University of Florida
Currently: University of Chicago Law School
Joined in: 2011
Eduardo Mercado
B.S. UC Santa Barbara
Currently: Genentech
Joined in: 2011
Jason Pflueger
B.A. Columbia University
Currently: Rose-Hulman IT
Joined in: 2011
Zachary Hallberg
B.S. Indiana University
Currently: Graduate Student with Prof. Ming Hammond
Joined in: 2012
Paul Leger
B.S. Grinnell College
Currently: FLX Bio
Joined in: 2012
Fred Tomlin
B.A. Whitman College
Currently: Graduate Student with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi
Joined in: 2013
Jessica Burch
B.S. UT San Antonio
Currently: Graduate Student with Prof. Hosea Nelson at UCLA
Kyle Owens
B.S. Texas A&M, UT Dallas
Currently: AbbVie
Joined in: 2013
Rebecca Johnson
B.A. Barnard College
Currently: Merck
Joined in: 2013
Katie Blackford
B.S. Smith College
Currently: Chemistry Education Graduate Student with Anne Baranger
Joined in: 2017
Brian Wang
B.S. Cornell University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Kevin Esvelt
Joined in: 2014
Nicolle Doering
B.S. UC Santa Barbara
Currently: Takeda
Joined in: 2015
Jose Roque
B.S. Florida International University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Paul Chirik
Joined in: 2015
Vignesh Palani
B.S. University of Minnesota
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Alison Wendlandt
Joined in: 2016
Shelby McCowen
B.S./M.S. UT San Antonio
Currently: Bristol Myers Squibb Process
Joined in: 2016
Hwisoo Ree
B. Sc./M. Sc. Korea University
Currently:
Joined in: 2016
Melissa Hardy
B. A, Grinnell College
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Matt Sigman
Joined in: 2016
Jin Su Ham
B.Sc./M.Sc. KAIST
Currently: SK Group
Joined in: 2018
Melecio Perea
B. A. New Mexico Highlands University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Abby Doyle
Joined in: 2016
Justin Jurczyk
B. S. Allegheny College
Currently: Gilead
Joined in: 2017
Bobby Lusi
B. S. Brown University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Stephen Banik
Joined in: 2017
Ian Bakanas
B. S. Rowan University
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. William DeGrado
Joined in: 2017
Deseree Dufek
B. S. University of Wisconsin, Madison
Currently: Graduate student with Prof. Anne Baranger
Joined in: 2022
Thomas Nedungadan
B. S. UC Santa Barbara
Currently: Graduate student with Prof. Brooks Abel
Joined in: 2022
Kerry Jones
B. S. UC Santa Barbara
Currently: Gilead
Joined in: 2018
David Soro
B. A. Macalester College
Joined in: 2018
Brandon Wright
A.B. Harvard University
Currently: Bristol Myers Squibb
Joined in: 2018
William Kayitare
B. S. Jackson State University
Joined in: 2018
Kristen Gardner
B.S. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Currently: Postdoc with Prof. Sarah Reisman
Joined in: 2019
Karan Goyal
B.A. Vanderbilt University
Currently: Arcus Biosciences
Joined in: 2019
Jack Hayward Cooke
M.Chem. University of Oxford
Currently: Postdoc with Stephen Buchwald
Joined in: 2019
Logan Bartholomew
B.S. George Washington University
Currently: Merck
Joined in: 2020
Khalid Mahmood
B.A. Washington University in St. Louis
Joined in: 2020
Paul Sinclair
B. S. University of Rochester
Currently: Gilead
Joined in: 2020
Lucas Göttemann
M.Sc. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Currently: Cytokinetics
Joined in: 2021
Undergraduate Students
Pablo Garcia Reynaga
Joined in: 2004
Arif Wibowo
Joined in: 2004
Allen Hong
Joined in: 2005
Sharon Lee
Joined in: 2005
Theresa Liang
Joined in: 2005
Albert Linden
Joined in: 2005
Helen Wong
Joined in: 2005
Francis Yoshimoto
Joined in: 2005
Raja Narayan
Joined in: 2006
Amy Lee
Joined in: 2006
Walter Singaram
Joined in: 2006
Christine Yang
Joined in: 2006
Jennifer Yen
Joined in: 2006
Alexander Astrand
Joined in: 2007
Kim Griffin
Joined in: 2007
Shirley Guo
Joined in: 2007
Matt Podlogar
Joined in: 2007
Katrina Uychaco
Joined in: 2007
Michael Delong
Joined in: 2008
Brian Ikkanda
Joined in: 2008
Andy Lim
Joined in: 2008
Vishal Vashistha
Joined in: 2008
Julius Reyes
Joined in: 2009
Ariel Yeh
Joined in: 2009
Amy McCarthy
Joined in: 2010
Danial Beaudry
Joined in: 2011
Tingting Fu
Joined in: 2011
Kyle Clagg
Joined in: 2011
Christian Lavados
Joined in: 2011
Eugenia Pushkarskaya
Joined in: 2012
Steven Shuken
Joined in: 2012
Anthony Chen
Joined in: 2012
Youjin Lee
Joined in: 2013
Kersti Haatveit
Joined in: 2015
Beryl Li
Joined in: 2015
Maxwell Tucker
Joined in: 2015
Diana Wang
Joined in: 2015
Naomi Kelley
Joined in: 2014
Katherine De La Fuente
Joined in: 2019
Safaa Jamshed
Joined in: 2021
Aaron Obasuyi
Joined in: 2023
Jin Tan
Joined in: 2022
Liam Landon
Joined in: 2022
Visiting Scholars and Summer Students
Alexandre Ghaffari-Savari
B.S.: Pierre & Marie Curie University
Hanne Hogmoen
Sandra Nguebe
M.S. Pierre & Marie Curie University
Allison Rhodes
Visiting from: UC Riverside
Leverett Smith
B.A. UC Santa Cruz
Ph.D. Cornell University
Joined in: 2007
Tyler Baguley
B.S. University of Oregon
Joined in: 2008
Brandon Rosen
Visiting from: University of Michigan
Joined in: 2009
Ty Volkoff
Visiting from: Caltech
Joined in: 2009
Jeffrey Buenaflor
Visiting from: UCLA
Joined in: 2009
Manuel Burkhalter
Joined in: 2009
Clèment Dince
Joined in: 2010
Christopher Marth
Visiting from: University of Florida
Joined in: 2010
Nishita Boda
Visiting from: IIT Kharagpur
Joined in: 2011
Erica D'Amato
Visiting from: Boston University
Joined in: Year
Tara Pesce
Visiting from: Columbia University
Joined in: 2011
Anthony Pitaval
Visiting from: The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia
Joined in: 2013
Justine deGruyter
Visiting from: New Mexico State University
Joined in: 2013
Luis Angel Vásquez-Maldonado
Visiting from: University of Puerto Rico
Joined in: 2013
Shota Sawano
Visiting from: Kyoto University
Joined in: 2013
Ruben Lázaro
Visiting from: University of Valencia
Joined in: 2014
Kaarin Evens
Visiting from: Macalester College
Joined in: 2014
Christopher McAtee
Visiting from: Lycoming College
Joined in: 2014
Kosuke Funayama
Visiting from: Tohoku University
Joined in: 2014
Hironori Takeuchi
Visiting from: Kyoto University
Joined in: 2014
Katherine Blackford
Visiting from: Smith College
Joined in: 2015
Melecio Perea
Visiting from: New Mexico Highlands University
Joined in: 2015
Sina Witzel
Visiting from: Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg
Joined in: 2015
Sohei Ueno
Visiting from: Nagoya University
Joined in: 2015
Carolin Gerleve
Visiting from: WWU Muenster
Joined in: 201
Alexander Rode
Visiting from: LMU Munich
Joined in: 2015
Andreas Bachmann
Visiting from: Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiberg
Joined in: 2016
Andrian Gandara
Visiting from: New Mexico State University
Joined in: 2016
Johny Nguyen
Visiting from: UC Riverside
Joined in: 2016
Marco Hartmann
Visiting from: ETH Zurich
Joined in: 2016
William Kayitare
Visiting from: Jackson State University
Joined in: 2016
Michael Röpke
Visiting from: TU München
Joined in: 2016
Sofia Ferrer Cabrera
Visiting from: ICIQ
Joined in: 2016
Sven Richter
Visiting from: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Joined in: 2016
Laura Lang
Visiting from: Leibniz University Hannover
Joined in: 2016
Maximilian Sceruebl
Visiting from: LMU Munich
Joined in: 2016
Lynée Massey
Visiting from: UT San Antonio
Joined in: 2017
Laura Wonilowicz
Visiting from: Virginia Tech
Joined in: 2017
Valentina Gasser
Visiting from: ETH Zurich
Joined in: 2017
Nozomu Nagashima
Visiting from: University of Tokyo
Joined in: 2017
Yannick Linne
Visiting from: University of Hannover
Joined in: 2017
Lucas Göttemann
Visiting from: LMU Munich
Joined in: 2017
Charis Roberts
Visiting from: Reed College
Joined in: 2018
Irene Gimenez Nueno
Visiting from: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Joined in: 2018
Yinghua Wang
Visiting from: University of Tokyo
Joined in: 2018
Nicolas Mueller
Visiting from: LMU Munich
Joined in: 2018
Krissada Norseeda
Visiting from: Chulabhorn Royal Academy
Joined in: 2018
Johanna Proessdorf
Visiting from: Technical University of Munich
Joined in: 2018
Alina Eggert
Visiting from: University of Hannover
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Simon Clemens
Visiting from: Heidelberg University
Joined in: 2019
Kim Mühlfenzl
Joined in: 2019
Karina Hugentobler
Visiting from: ETH Zurich
Joined in: 2019
Yuto Kimura
Visiting from: Nagoya University
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Sojung Kim
Visiting from: Penn State University
Joined in: 2019
Jonathan Nyenhuis
Visiting from: Leibniz University Hanover
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Sven Papidocha
Visiting from: ETH Zurich
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Suh Hyun Kang
Visiting from: ETH Zurich
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Jonas Rackl
Visiting from: Technical University Munich
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Alexander Preinfalk
Visiting from: University of Vienna
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Visiting from: University of Burgos
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Nattawadee Chaisan
Visiting from: Chulabhorn Research Institute
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Visiting from: Nova School of Science and Technology
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Gian Reber
Visiting from: University of Basel
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Visiting from: Kyoto University
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Visiting from: Keio University
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Visiting from: ENSCM
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Visiting from: University of Turin
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Visiting from: University of British Columbia
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Visiting from: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzen
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Visiting from: Chulabhorn Research Institute
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Visiting from: University of Urbino
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Visiting from: Leibniz University Hanover
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Visiting from: Waseda University
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Visiting from: ENSCM
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Pierre Gilbert
Visiting from: ENSCM
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Visiting from: Tohoku University
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Visiting from: ETH Zürich
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Visiting from: ESPCI Paris
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Visiting from: University of Münster
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