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Members and Staff

Becoming a Member

CDD Faculty

NamePositions
Robert VinceDirector
Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Courtney AldrichAssociate Professor & Associate Director
Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Liqiang ChenAssistant Professor & Assistant Director
David M. FergusonProfessor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Robert GeraghtyAssociate Professor & Associate Director
Herbert NagasawaAdjunct Member
Krzysztof W. PankiewiczProfessor & Senior Associate Director
Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Steve PattersonAssociate Professor & Associate Director
Christine SalomonAssistant Professor & Assistant Director
Yuk ShamAssistant Professor & Assistant Director
Zhengqiang WangAssistant Professor & Assistant Director

External CDD Members

NamePositions
Kumar G. BelaniProfessor, Department of Anesthesiology
Marna EricsonProfessor, Department of Dermatology
Stephen S. HechtProfessor, University of Minnesota Cancer Center
Thomas R. HoyeProfessor, Department of Chemistry
Yinduo JiAssociate Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Louis M. ManskyDirector, Institute for Molecular Virology
Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
Irina NesmelovaResearch Assistant Professor,  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
William M. ShannonConsultant
Thomas ShierProfessor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Natalia TretyakovaAssociate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Paul TuiteAssociate Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic
Michael WaltersResearch Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Director, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
Kyoichi WatanabeDistinquished Scholar and Consultant
George L. WilcoxProfessor, Department of Neuroscience


 
Administrative Staff

NamePosition
Elizabeth WolfsonAssociate Director
Liz HinskeAccountant II and Supervisor
Phillip LuttmersAccountant II
Julie SchneiderExecutive Accountants Specialist


 
Research Staff
 
Group photos of the research staff are also available. Note: the group photos are not currently up to date.
 
 

NamePositionResearch Group
Jay ChauhanPostdoctoral AssociatePatterson
Yue-Lei ChenPostdoctoral AssociateVince/Wang
Narsihmulu CheryalaResearch AssistantVince
Roshani DahalJunior ScientistSham
Michael DonaldJunior ScientistSalomon
Christine DreisScientistVince
Benjamin DuckworthPostdoctoral AssociateAldrich
Curtis EngelhartGraduate Research AssistantAldrich
Krzysztof FelczakResearch AssociatePankiewicz
Kimberly GrimesPostdoctoral AssociateAldrich
Evelyne HouangUndergraduate Research AssistantSham
Zeeshan KamalPostdoctoal AssociateChen
Matthew KeslerJunior ScientistGeraghty
John KurtsUndergraduate Research AssistantSalomon
Claire Le ManachPostdoctoral AssociatePatterson
Garrett McLeanUndergraduate Research AssistantSham
Kathy MichalskiGraduate Research AssistantAldrich
Alexandre MonteilPostdoctoral AssociatePatterson
Swati MoreResearch AssociateVince
Sergey NegrashovUndergraduate Research AssistantSham
Abbas RazaResearch AssociateVince
Yudi RusmanPostdoctoral AssociateSalomon
Lori SchmidtPostdoctoral AssociateSalomon
Ce ShiPostdoctoral AssociateAldrich
Alexandra SimonUndergraduate Research AssistantGeraghty
Rohit SinghPostdoctoral AssociateVince/Wang
Dan SchneiderUndergraduate Research AssistantSalomon
Venkata SirivoluPostdoctoral AssociateWang
Michael StaakePostdoctoral AssociatePatterson
Jake StricherzUndergraduate Research AssistantSham
Jing TangPostdoctoral AssociateWang
Ashish VartakResearch AssociateVince
Mahalakshmi VasanPostdoctoral AssociateAldrich
Daniel WilsonResearch FellowAldrich
Jessica WilliamsAssistant ScientistVince
Dana WittliefUndergraduate Research AssistantGeraghty
Yanli XuPostdoctoral AssociateChen
Wenbo ZhouPostdoctoral AssociateGeraghty


 
Scientific Advisory Committee

The Scientific Advisory Committee consists of national experts in the area of drug discovery and design, both in academics and industry. They perform an external scientific review of the Center for Drug Design's research activities and programs.

NameAffiliation
Stephen Benkovic, PhDThe Pennsylvania State University
Department of Chemistry
Eberly College of Science
Laurence Hurley, PhDUniversity of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Pharmacology And Toxicology
John R. MacDonald, PhD, DABTRidge Road Consultants
Garland Marshall, PhDWashington University
School of Medicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Sidney Pestka, MDThe State University of New Jersey-Rutgers
Dept. Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Alex Wlodawer, PhDNational Cancer Institute at Frederick
Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory

 



 

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