We are excited to welcome three Med Chem graduate students to join our lab this year: Noelle Reimers, Linxi Zhu, and Ryan Nguyen! Noelle will work on lipid peroxidation and ferroptosis, Linxi will work on metabolism of benzalkonium chloride, and Ryan will work on the impact of metabolism on human exposome. Can’t wait to see what you will accomplish!
Category Archives: General News
Congratulations, Dr. Dylan Ross, on a fantastic defense!
Dylan did a spectacular job in defending his thesis! Such an impressive body of work! Congrats, Dr. Ross!



Libin is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
Effective 07/01/2020! Thanks to all the the past and current members who made this possible and the support from my colleagues in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the School of Pharmacy throughout the past five years!
CCS Database – CCSbase
Check out our integrated web interface for accessing an interactive comprehensive CCS database covering a wide range of chemical space and a high-performance machine learning-based CCS prediction model on diverse chemical structures: https://ccsbase.net/.


Josi successfully defended her thesis!
Congratulations on an outstanding thesis and defense, Dr. Herron! Well deserved!
Josi will start her new job at Boeing as a toxicologist in January, 2020!



Amy passed her general exam!
Congratulations, Amy! Keep it up!

Rutan Zhang joins the lab as a senior fellow!
Rutan recently received his PhD in analytical chemistry from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, under the supervision of Prof. Liang Qiao. His expertise is in mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and proteomics. Welcome, Rutan!
Vanessa joined the lab and received an EPT training grant!
Vanessa joined our lab in May after rotating with us in the Fall! She recently successfully competed for a training fellowship from the NIEHS-funded Environmental Pathology/Toxicology Training Program with her project on the effect of benzalkonium chlorides on gut microbiome! Congratulations, Vanessa!
Kelly starts her own lab at the University of Georgia!
It was a bitter sweet feeling to say goodbye to Kelly as she heads out to start her own lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia in August! We are so proud of you, Kelly! You will be dearly missed!



Students from SHPEP program experienced our lab!
Through the Summer Health Professionals Education Program (SHPEP), we hosted six undergraduate students from across the country for hand-on lab experience in our lab on July 02. The students had fun participating in various experiments led by Quynh, Ryan, Hideaki, and Kelly, such as lipid peroxidation, catalase-catalyzed decomposition of H2O2, tissue culture techniques, lipid extraction, and mass spectrometry!





