{"id":7,"date":"2014-12-03T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T22:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:06:53","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Libin Xu, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Scientist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan Seguin, Ph.D., University of Washington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rutan Zhang<\/a>, Ph.D., Fudan University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vanessa Lopez<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2018); received her PhD from UW Medicinal Chemistry in August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Student<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noelle Reimers<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Linxi Zhu, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan Nguyen<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corrina Cooper<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Griffin Rangel<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anvitaa Anandkumar, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leilani Tandy (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Hooper (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alvin Chen (UW, ACMS – Data Science and Statistics, Class of 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Guo (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabby Kunzman (UW, Bioengineering, Class of 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out our Group Photo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former Members
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Former Graduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Brzoska, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2020); defended in May 2026. Current position: postdoctoral fellow in Isoherranen Lab at the UW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tianwei Shen<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2017); defended in August 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily Pruitt<\/a>, Chemistry, UW (2018); defended in May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Li<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2016); defended in November 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quynh Do<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2017); defended in December 2022. Current position: Scientist at Partner Therapeutics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan Ross<\/a>, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2015); defended in March 2021. Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, PNNL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Former Postdoctoral Fellows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Former Undergraduate and Postbac Research Assistants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Pakteema Tong (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (04\/2019 \u2013 06\/2020). Current position: Medical School at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Chiang (UW Mathematics and Informatics, 04\/2020 \u2013 12\/2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jang Ho Cho (UW, Applied Computational Mathematical Sciences, Class of 2020) ( 07\/2019 \u2013 06\/2020 ). Current position: Oracle Corp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qingyu Guo (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (04\/2019 \u2013 05\/2020). Current position: Osteopathic Medical School at William Carey University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Luong (UW, Biochemistry, Class of 2020) (01\/2019 \u2013 06\/2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Mizuki Johnson (UW PharmD student, 01\/2019 \u2013 03\/2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tania Ruiz Velasco (Pharmaceutical Science Summer Diversity Program, 06\/2018 \u2013 08\/2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Murphree, rotation student, Medicinal Chemistry (01\/2018 \u2013 03\/2018). Now in Guttman lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Watson, rotation student, Medicinal Chemistry (2016). Now in Guttman lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Dempsey, rotation student, Environmental Toxicology (2016). Now a postdoc at DePaolo Lab at UW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quynh Tran, B.Sc., Biochemistry, UW (2016); now at the Pharm.D. program at the UW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Kennedy, B.Sc., Biochemistry, UW (2015 – 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Brianna Morgan, Southern Oregon University, Summer Undergraduate Researcher (2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Sana W. Sakr, Ph.D., Research Scientist (2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Principal Investigator Libin Xu, Ph.D. Professor of Medicinal Chemistry Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Research Scientist Ryan Seguin, Ph.D., University of Washington Rutan Zhang, Ph.D., Fudan University   Postdoctoral Fellow Vanessa Lopez, Medicinal Chemistry, UW (2018); received her PhD from UW Medicinal Chemistry in August 2024. Graduate Student Noelle Reimers, Medicinal Chemistry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":118,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/libinxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}