People

Principal Investigator

Libin Xu

Libin Xu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences



Senior Fellow


Ryan Seguin, Ph.D., University of Washington

Rutan Zhang, Ph.D., Fudan University

 


Graduate Student

Amy Li, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2016)

Tianwei Shen, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2017)

Quynh Do, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2017)

Vanessa Lopez, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2018)

Emily Pruitt, Chemistry, UW (2018); co-advised by Prof. Matthew Bush

Marie Brzoska, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2020)

Noelle Reimers, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)

Linxi Zhu, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)

Ryan Nguyen, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)


Research Assistant

Leilani Tandy (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2022)


Undergraduate Researcher

Gavin Hooper (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2023)

Alvin Chen (UW, ACMS – Data Science and Statistics, Class of 2023)

Angela Guo (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2023)

Gabby Kunzman (UW, Bioengineering, Class of 2023)

Check out our Group Photo here.


Former Members

Former Graduate Students

Dylan Ross, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2015); defended in March 2021. Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, PNNL.

Josi Herron, received her Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology in 2019 (06/2014-12/2019). First graduate student of the lab. Current position: Toxicologist, Boeing.

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Kelly Hines, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University; Senior Fellow (07/2015-07/2019); Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia

Hideaki Tomita, Ph.D., University of Utah; Senior Fellow, then Acting Instructor (11/2015 – 11/2021). Current position: Biotech in Japan.

Former Undergraduate and Postbac Research Assistants

Ally Krinsky (UW, Data Science, Class of 2022) (04/2020 – 04/2021). Current position: Software engineer, JP Morgan.

Pakteema Tong (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (04/2019 – 06/2020). Current position: Medical School at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

David Chiang (UW Mathematics and Informatics, 04/2020 – 12/2020).

Jang Ho Cho (UW, Applied Computational Mathematical Sciences, Class of 2020) ( 07/2019 – 06/2020 ). Current position: Oracle Corp.

Qingyu Guo (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (04/2019 – 05/2020). Current position: Osteopathic Medical School at William Carey University.

Jonathan Luong (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (01/2019 – 06/2019).

Cecilia Tran, B.Sc., Biochemistry, UW. Undergraduate researcher to lab technician (02/2017-05/2019). Current position: attending University of Maryland Medical School.

Mizuki Johnson (UW PharmD student, 01/2019 – 03/2019).

Tania Ruiz Velasco (Pharmaceutical Science Summer Diversity Program, 06/2018 – 08/2018)

Taylor Murphree, rotation student, Medicinal Chemistry (01/2018 – 03/2018). Now in Guttman lab.

Michael Watson, rotation student, Medicinal Chemistry (2016). Now in Guttman lab.

Joe Dempsey, rotation student, Environmental Toxicology (2016). Now a postdoc at DePaolo Lab at UW.

Quynh Tran, B.Sc., Biochemistry, UW (2016); now at the Pharm.D. program at the UW.

David Kennedy, B.Sc., Biochemistry, UW (2015 – 2016).

David Lee, B.Sc. in Biochemistry, UW (2015 – 2016); graduated from Pharm.D. program at the UW in 2020. Now practicing at Wenatchee, WA.

Brianna Morgan, Southern Oregon University, Summer Undergraduate Researcher (2015)

Andrew Dinh, B.Sc., Stanford University, 2014, Research Assistant (2015); Received Ph.D. from SDSU/UCSD. Now Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Sana W. Sakr, Ph.D., Research Scientist (2015)