Graduate Students

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Dr. Chi Ting (Ph.D. 2017)
Currently: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Brandeis University

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Dr. Zach Brill (Ph.D. 2017)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Merck, Boston

Dr. Kevin Hung (Ph.D. 2018)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Novartis, Emeryville

Dr. Xirui Hu (Ph.D. 2018)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, BMS, Cambridge

Dr. Matt Condakes (Ph.D. 2018)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, BMS, Cambridge

Fernando Alvarez (M.S. 2018)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Dr. Bingqi Tong (Ph.D. 2020)
Currently: Postdoc, Stuart Schreiber

Dr. Karl Haelsig (Ph.D. 2020)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Abbvie, South San Francisco

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Dr. Claire Harmange Magnani (Ph.D. 2021)
Currently: Postdoc, Stuart Schreiber

Dr. Linus Shen (Ph.D. 2021)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Arcus Biosciences, Hayward

Dr. Rachel Rosen (Ph.D. 2021)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Merck, Boston

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Dr. Danny Thach (Ph.D. 2022)
Currently: Postdoc, Robert Knowles

Dr. Vasil Vasilev (Ph.D. 2022)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Bristol Myers Squibb

Dr. Andre Sanchez (Ph.D. 2023)
Currently: Postdoc, Eric Jacobsen

Dr. Paulo Machicao (Ph.D. 2023)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead, Foster City

Dr. Zhouyang (Beth) Zhu (Ph.D. 2024)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Gilead, Foster City

Dr. Lukas Spessert (Ph.D. 2024)
Currently: Discovery chemistry, Corteva Agriscience

Dr. Danny Huang (Ph.D. 2025)
Currently: Postdoc, Andy Meyers

Dr. Yi Xie (Ph.D. 2025)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Amgen, San Francisco

Dr. Kelvin Li (Ph.D. 2025)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, J&J, SanDiego

Postdoctoral Researchers / Visiting Scholars

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Dr. Yu-Ming Zhao, Ph.D.
(Lanzhou University, China)
Currently: Professor, Shaanxi Normal University, China

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Dr. Soumitra Maity, Ph.D.
(Jadavpur University, India)
Currently: Associate Professor, IIT, Dhanbad, India

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Dr. Silong Xu, Ph.D.
(Nankai University, China)
Currently: Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

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Dr. Gong Xu, Ph.D.
(University of Bern, Switzerland)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Northwest A&F University, China

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Dr. Huck Grover, Ph.D.
(Western University, Canada)
Currently: Associate Professor, Memorial University, Canada

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Dr. Michael Sheremet, Ph.D.
(Max Plank Institute, Germany)
Currently: Process Chemistry, Lundbeck, Denmark

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Dr. Kenneth Esguerra, Ph.D.
(McGill University, Canada)
Currently: BASF Process Chemistry

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Dr. Andrew Musacchio, Ph.D.
(Princeton University)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Merck, Boston

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Dr. Volker Martin Schmiedel, Ph.D.
(Freie University Berlin)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna

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Dr. Mikiko Okumura, Ph.D.
(Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Currently: Medicinal Chemistry, Genentech, South Francisco

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Dr. Jun Xuan, Ph.D.
(Zhejiang University, China)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Zhejiang University, China

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Dr. Naifeng Hu, Ph.D.
(Nankai University, China)

Undergraduate Students

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Victor Heung, B.S. 2014
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Palmer College of Chiropractic

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Daniel Bregante, B.S. 2015
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: UIUC PhD Program

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Joey Dennis, B.S. 2015
(Hope College, Michigan)
Currently: MIT PhD Program

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Esther Jang, B.S. 2015
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: UCSF Dental Medicine

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Stephen Harwood, B.S. 2017
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: The Scripps Research Institute PhD Program

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Nick Shin, B.S. 2017
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Princeton University PhD Program

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Xianhuang Zeng, B.S. 2017
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: The Scripps Research Institute PhD Program

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Alvin Hsu, B.S. 2019
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Harvard University PhD Program

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Ka Hhong Chan, B.S. 2017
(University of California, Berkeley)

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Laura Handy, B.S. 2018
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Stanford PhD Program

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Yujia Tao, B.S. 2017
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Caltech PhD Program

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Snow Le, B.S. 2020
(University of California, Berkeley)

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Zhi Yang, B.S. 2019
(Nankai University, China)
Currently: HKUST PhD Program

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Angus Olding, B.S. 2019
(University of Tasmania, Australia)

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Sohee Kim, B.S. 2020
(KAIST, Korea)
Currently: University of Chicago PhD Program

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Zhaodong Zhang, B.S. 2020
(Zhejiang University, China)

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José Hernández Meléndez, B.S. 2020
(University of Puerto Rico)
Currently: University of Michigan PhD Program

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Gaozhe Jiang, B.S. 2020
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Hong Kong University PhD Program

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Jordan Thomson, B.S. 2020
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Caltech PhD Program

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Isabella Germek, B.S. 2020
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Gilead, Foster City

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Ruizhe (Jerry) Chen, B.S. 2022
(Cornell University)
Currently: Princeton University PhD program

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Wenzhen Deng, B.S. 2023
(ShanghaiTech, China)

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Anjali Gurajapu, B.S. 2023
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Caltech PhD Program

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Yiheng Li, B.S. 2023
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Scripps PhD Program

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Justin Ye, B.S. 2024 
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Yale PhD Program

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Dylan Moran (2024 Amgen Scholar)    
(UTSA)
Currently: UC Berkeley PhD Program

 

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Harish Suryadevara (2024 Amgen Scholar)    
(UT Dallas)    
Currently: UC Berkeley PhD Program

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Carlyle Mackenzie, B.S. 2025
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Scripps Research Ph.D Program

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Tyler Truong, B.S. 2025
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: medical school

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Joshua Gershon, B.S. 2025
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: UC Irvine Ph.D Program

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Xinyi Li, B.S. 2025
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: MIT Ph.D Program

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Erin Li, B.S. 2025
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Yale Ph.D Program

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Yutong Wang, B.S. 2025
(Nankai University, China)
Currently: Rice Ph.D Program

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Kazuki Tomota, B.S. 2025
(Hiroshima University, Japan)

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Serena Ramanathan, expected B.S. 2026
(University of California, Berkeley)

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Micah Wong, expected B.S. 2026
(University of California, Berkeley)

Visting M.S./Ph.D. Students

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Nobuyuki Matsumoto, B.S., M.S.
(Nagoya University, Japan)

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Hywel Evans, M.S.
(University of Southampton, UK)

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Esther Tschanen, M.S.
(ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

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Takahiro Morikawa , B.S., M.S.
(Chiba University, Japan)

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Helge Berneaud, M.S.
(University of Hanover, Germany)

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Malte Moeller , B.S.
(University of Hanover, Germany)

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Tobias Pinkert, B.S.
(University of Muenster, Germany)

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Luiz Novaes, M.S.
(University of Campinas, Brasil)

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Sebastian Clementson, M.Sc.Eng.
(Lund University, Sweden)

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Lukas Spessert, M.S.
(Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

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Marco Pierau, M.S.
(University of Muenster, Germany)

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Julia Friedli, M.S.
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)

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Jukiya Sakamoto, B.S., M.S.
(Chiba University, Japan)

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David Berger, M.S.
(Leibniz Universitat Hannover)

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Djung Sue Jeon, M.S.
(Technical University of Munich)