Group alumni: 

• Dr. Wendy Minke, now Wendy Sanderson, at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Belgium, earlier at Structural Genomix in San Diego


• David Sakata, Chemist and patent lawyer


• Dr. David Diller, Team Leader at Venenum BioDesign, earlier Director Computational Chemistry at CMD Bioscience
  and CSO at Data2Discovery, earlier at Pharmacopeia and Wyeth


• Dr. Xiao-Jian Tan, one of the nicest people I've ever known, deceased on September 30, 2014 after a courageous battle.
  In 2001 she came to my lab all the way from Chonqing, and was later rejoined by her husband, Dr. Zhenfa Zhang, who became
  a post-doc in the lab. of my colleague professor Erkang Fan. Life is not fair.

When I ended up in the hospital for many months from the auto-immune condition CIDP Xiao-Jian kept my lab going, and she visited me nearly every day, often with her husbund.


From the obituary: "Xiaojian Tan was born to a loving family on Oct 31, 1973 in Hubei China. She grew up in Chongqing and attended the Southeast University before she moved to Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science for graduate studies in 1996 and ventured into US after she graduated with PhD in 2001. She briefly started a career in drug discovery in the University of Washington and later the University of Michigan before she sacrificed her early career and devoted the next a few years to her own family and went on to have two lovely children in a quick roll. For a restart of her career in science, she was admitted to the department of biostatistics in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010, where she was on medical leave in the second year until she passed away on Sep 30, 2014. Xiaojian lived a beautiful life with a huge caring heart that was inspirational to many around her. During her life, she was concerned about others around her and always was ready to go an extra mile to help others with all her capability. She would naturally sacrifice herself to benefit others gracefully. She was shy in nature and usually would blush speaking in public, and yet she made a lot of friends everywhere she went and friendships would last a lifetime. That speaks for her kindness, honest, warm and loving heart. Xiaojian was always humble, effacing and nice to people surrounding her, and yet she was also blessed with amazingly strong will against the challenge from life. During her last period of life with terminal cancer, she strikingly became a radiant model of how to live a meaningful life facing debilitating pain, never-ending suffering and threat of death through her courageously defying the adversary health condition and unfailing taking care of others."


• Dr. Oliver Hucke, now Principal Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach (Germany), earlier at their site in Laval, Quebec, Canada


• Dr. David Deng, now Director of Software Development at Scilligence Corporation, earlier at Chem-Axon, in the greater Boston area, earlier at Roche in NJ


• Dr. Jan Schoepe, teacher at FWS Apensen, Germany.


• Dr. Divya Ramamoorthy, now Adjunct Associate ProfessorAdjunct Associate Professor Austin Community College.


• Nelly Hajizadeh, visiting senior undergraduate from Durham University (UK),
  now Data Scientist at Novartis.


• Noelani Jallorina, undergraduate Biochem major when here, now Pharmacy Resident at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.


• Aleksander Lazarski, undergraduate from UTEP, here for a summer research project in 2017