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Specialization: Synthetic Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
Specialization: Research is focused on the synthesis of complex glycoproteins, natural products, and oligosaccharides of importance in immuno-oncology and infectious diseases.
Axelrod Research Lab
DRUG 210A/218
Specialization: Molecular Pharmacology of Antidepressant- and Cocaine-Sensitive Serotonin Transporters; Endogenous Cannabinoid Transport
V. Jo Davisson
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 406Adavisson@purdue.edu
765-494-5238
Specialization: Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Davisson Research Lab
RHPH 354
Emily C. Dykhuizen
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
HANS 105Aedykhui@purdue.edu
765-494-4706
Specialization: chemical biology, chromatin biology
Dykhuizen Research Lab
HANS 105
765-494-4782
Daniel P. Flaherty
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 406Bdflaher@purdue.edu
765-494-4761
Specialization: Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Fragment-based drug design
Arun K. Ghosh
Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
WTHR 273Cakghosh@purdue.edu
765-494-5323
Specialization: Drug Design, Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Product Synthesis
Tony R. Hazbun
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
HANS 235Athazbun@purdue.edu
765-496-8228
Specialization: Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, Chemical Genetics
Hazbun Research Lab
HANS 235
765-494-3675
Gregory H. Hockerman
Associate Head, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 206Agregh@purdue.edu
765-496-3874
Specialization: Molecular pharmacology
Hockerman Research Lab
RHPH 205/206
765-496-6010
Rong Huang
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
DRUG 211huang-r@purdue.edu
765-494-3426
Specialization: Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Epigenetics
Andy Hudmon
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 224Bahudmon@purdue.edu
765-496-6389
Specialization: Neuropharmacology, cell signaling, macromolecular machines and ion channels.
Hudmon Research Lab
RHPH 340
765-494-9362
Specialization: Chemical biology, DNA-encoded medicinal chemistry, Proteomics
Douglas J. LaCount
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
DLR 442dlacount@purdue.edu
765-496-7835
Specialization: Systems biology of malaria parasites; protein-protein interactions
LaCount Research Lab
DLR 439
765-496-9336
Jianing Li
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 504Bjianing-li@purdue.edu
765-494-5514
Li Research Lab
RHPH 552B
Seung-Oe Lim
Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
DRUG 347limsoe@purdue.edu
765-494-3531
Specialization: Cancer, Immuno-oncology, Immunotherapy, Alzheimer's disease
Lim Research Lab
DRUG 310
765-494-3647
Specialization: Drug targeting, Cancer therapeutics, Imaging and therapy of autoimmune diseases, Infectious disease therapeutics
Specialization: Infection-associated tissue remodeling and cancers
Chiwook Park
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 224Cpark6@purdue.edu
765-496-7513
Specialization: System-wide Investigation of Protein Folding and Protein-Ligand Interactions
Park Research Lab
RHPH 218A, 223
765-496-8312
Elizabeth I. (Betsy) Parkinson
Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry
BRWN 4171Deparkins@purdue.edu
765-496-3346
Specialization: The discovery of new natural products from cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters and the examination of the anticancer and antibiotic activities of these natural products with a focus on difficult-to-hit targets.
Carol B. Post
Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
HOCK 127cbp@purdue.edu
765-494-5980
Specialization: Computational Chemistry and Biological NMR
Jean-Christophe (Chris) Rochet
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
DLR 325Bjrochet@purdue.edu
765-494-1413
Specialization: Protein misassembly, Parkinson's disease
Rochet Research Lab
DLR 339
765-496-6226
Specialization: Biochemistry and Biophysics
Stahelin Research Lab
DLR 439
765-496-2727
Craig K. Svensson
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 410BSpecialization: Idiosyncratic drug reactions; drug addiction; chronic illness
Specialization: Proteomics and biological mass spectrometry
Tao Research Lab
HANS 404, HANS 435, HANS 439
Specialization: GPCR signaling, Structure Determination, Drug Discovery
Specialization: Molecular Pharmacology
Watts Research Lab
RHPH 212, 214
765-496-3873
Specialization: Anticancer drug discovery, Structure-based rational drug design, DNA G-quadruplex, NMR, Computer modeling
Yang Yang
Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
DLR 336yangyang@purdue.edu
765-494-2926
Specialization: neurological diseases (e.g., autism; epilepsy; pain; dementia); pharmacogenomics; gene therapy; human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs); genetic mouse models
Zhong-Yin Zhang
Head, Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
RHPH 202Azhang-zy@purdue.edu
765-494-1403
Specialization: Cancer Biology & Therapeutics, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Cellular Signaling, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases