MCNP: Students and Fellows

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MCNP: Students and Fellows

The division is training the next generation of researchers specializing in drug discovery, and a clear strength is the cadre of young scientists comprising our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Currently, there are forty-one graduate students and eighteen postdoctoral fellows working as students, teachers, and scholars within the Division.

Our students receive full financial support, including a competitive stipend, paid tuition, and health insurance. They complete the PhD program in approximately five years, and our graduates have taken postdocs in prestigious labs (at Harvard, Duke, Scripps, and MIT, just to name a few) and found desirable positions in academia and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. We meet many of our students for the first time during the School's Recruitment Weekend each January (the 2008 group is pictured below with some of our current students).




Recent Dissertations

  • Keduo Qian: "Design and Synthesis of Novel Triterpene-derived Compounds as Potent Anti-HIV Clinical Trial Candidates" (K. H. Lee lab).
  • Tim Wigle: "The evolution of antibacterial chemotheraphy:  Targeting RecA to sabotage antibiotic tolerance and resistance mechanisms" (Singleton lab).
  • Raed Khashan: “Development and application of ligand-based and structure based computational drug discovery tools based on frequent subgraph mining of chemical structures” (Tropsha lab).
  • Ruchir Shah: “Computational analysis of protein function and protein-protein interactions” (Trophsa lab; Materials Science).
  • Linyi Wei: "New Tylophorine Analogs As Potential Antitumor Agents" (K. H. Lee lab).

Recent Graduates

  • Linyi Wei (K. H. Lee lab, 2006): Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, San Deigo, CA.

  • Jin Tatsuzaki (K. H. Lee lab, 2005): President, Tokiwa Phytochemical Co., Ltd, Chiba, Japan.

  • Andrew Lee (Singleton lab, 2005): Assistant Professor, The Scripps Research Institute.
  • Scott Oloff (Tropsha lab, 2005): Research scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ridgefield, CT.

  • Shuxing (King) Zhang (Tropsha lab, 2005): Assistant Professor, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.