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Porco Lab Alumni

 

 

Former Postdoctoral Researchers           Current Position

Dr. Nicolas Rabasso
Dr. B. Kulkarni                                           
Dr. A. Jeevanandam                                 
Dr. Aaron Beeler                                       
Dr. Andreas Heutling ​                             
Dr. Branko Mitasev                                   
Dr. Lauren Rossi                                       
Dr. Stephane P. Roche       
Dr. Benedikt Crone                       
Dr. Christina Rodrigo                               
Dr. Dana Winter                                       
Dr. Davinia Fernandez-Gonzalez
Dr. Munmun Mukerjee
Dr. Alexander Grenning                           
​Dr. Pieter Bos                                           
Dr. Kiel Lazarski                                       
Dr. Martin Himmelbauer                         
Dr. Takayuki Iwata
​Dr. Adam Scharf
Dr. Timothy McFadden
Dr. Kyle Reichl
​Dr. Wenhan Zhang

​​Paris-sud XI
Principal Scientist, Schering Plough Research Institute, Cambridge, MA
Pharm-Eco, Lexington, MA
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA
Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Manheim, Germany
Research Scientist, Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Physics, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Research Scientist, BASF, Germany
Attorney at Law, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Boston, MA
Scientist, Paraza Pharma Inc., Montreal, Qc, Canada


Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Group Page
Senior Scientist, Schrodinger, NY

Scientist at the Broad Institute with Stuart Schreiber, Cambridge, MA
Scientist at Biogen, Cambridge, MA
Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, Japan
Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA

Patent Agent at Cooley LLP, Boston, MA
​Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA
Scientist at Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Former Graduate Students     Degree (Year)     Current Position


Scott Magee                                                                                Suntory Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Ruichao Shen                                   Ph.D.                             Schering Plough Research Institute, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Chaomin Li                                        Ph.D.                             Merck, Boston, MA
Yongbo Hu                                              M.A. (2003)                  Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA
Dr. Xiang Wang                                      Ph.D. (2005)                 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Colorado University, Boulder, CO
William Phillips                                      M.A. (2005)
Danielle Solano                                     M.A.                               Graduate Student in Prof. Kurth’s laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of California,                                                                                                          Davis, CA
Dr. Dawn Troast                                     Ph.D. (2006)                  Epix Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA
Dr. Xiaoguang Lei                                  Ph.D. (2006)                  Assistant Investigator, Head of Chemistry Center National Institute of Biological Sciences,                                                                                                                 Beijing, China
Dr. Shun Su                                             Ph.D. (2007)                  Research Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb
Dr. Jianglong Zhu                                  Ph.D. (2007)                  Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
Dr. Sujata Bardhan                                Ph.D. (2007)                  Scientific Program Manager, NICHD, NIH, Maryland
Dr. Baudouin Gerard                             Ph.D. (2007)                  Scientist III, ImmunoGen, Inc., Waltham , MA
Dr. Chong Han                                        Ph.D. (2008)                  Scientist, Small Molecule Process Chemistry, Genentec, San Francisco, CA
Dr. Andrew Germain                              Ph.D. (2009)                  Patent Agent, Clark & Elbing, LLP, Boston, MA
Dr. Ji Qi                                                    Ph.D. (2009)                   Principle Scientist, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Beijing, China
Dr. Andrew Kleinke                               Ph.D. (2010)                   Postdoc in Prof. Jamison’s Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Suwei Dong                                      Ph.D. (2010)                   Principle Investigator, Peking University School of Pharmaceutical Science, Beijing, China
Dr. David Sloman                                   Ph.D. (2011)                    Merck & Co. Inc., Boston, MA
Dr. Stephen Scully                                 Ph.D. (2011)                    Scientist at BIND Therapeutics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Dr. Huan Cong                                        Ph.D. (2011)                    Principle Investigator, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of                                                                                                                      Science, Beijing, China
Dr. Qiang Zhang                                     Ph.D. (2011)                    Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY
Daniel Podgorski                                    M.A. (2012)                    Junior Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Washington D.C.
Dr. Andrew J. Little                                 Ph.D. (2013)                   Senior Scientist I, Abbvie, Worcester, MA
Dr. Yuan Xiong                                        Ph.D. (2013)                   Postdoc in Prof. Gray’s Laboratory, School of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Nicholas Grigoriadis                              M.A. (2014)
Sarah Spiegel                                         M.A. (2014)                     Student, New York Medical College, New York, NY (M.D. expected in 2020)
Dr. Anaïs Gervais                                    Ph.D. (2014)                    Life Science Consultant, Putnam Associates, Burlington, MA
Dr. Neil Lajkiewicz                                 Ph.D. (2014)                    Scientist at Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Tian Qin                                             Ph.D. (2014)                    Postdoc in Prof. Phil Baran’s Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Dr. Robert Ziegler                                  Ph.D. (2015)                    Postdoc with Prof. Tim Jamison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Diane Hamann                                 Ph.D. (2016)                    Research Scientist, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Chao Qi                                              Ph.D. (2016)                    Scientist at Incyte Corporation, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Gina J. Kim                                         Ph.D. (2017)                   
Technology Specialist at Clark+Elbing LLP,  Boston MA
Dr. Jonathan Boyce                               Ph.D. (2017)                    Postdoctoral Scholar at Ian Seiple Group, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Dr. Wenyu Wang                                   Ph.D. (2017)                    Research Scientist I at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
​Dr. Thomas Purgett                              Ph. D (2019)                   Scientist at Biogen, Cambridge, MA
​Dr. Xiaowei Wu                                      Ph. D (2019)                    Research Scientist at Prelude Therapeutics Incorporated, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Michael Smith                                  Ph. D (2021)                   Senior Consultant at TRINITY Life Sciences, Boston, MA
Dr. Saishuai Wen                                   Ph. D (2021)                    Process Chemist at Prelude Therapeutics, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Chun Chen                                       Ph. D (2021)                    Medicinal Chemist at Prelude Therapeutics, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Zachary Powers                              Ph. D (2021)                    Medicinal Chemist at PTC Therapeutics, Inc., Bridgewater, NJ
Dr. Tyler Rauwolf                                  Ph. D (2022)
William Gilmore                                    M.A (2022)                      Medicinal Chemist at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Mackenzie Marrs                             Ph.D (2022)                   Medicinal Chemistry Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA                 
Dr. Madison Powers.                             Ph.D (2022)                   Medicinal Chemistry Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Sloane O'Neill                                      
                  

Former Visiting Scholars             Current Position

Prof. Cynthia McGowan                              Merrimack College
Sandra Taliansky Chamudis                      Graduate Student at the Institute of Medicinal Chemistry, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Jennifer Treece                                            Graduate Student, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Daisuke Suzuki                                             Graduate Student, Nagoya University, Japan

Former Undergraduate       Degree (Year)                Current Position
Students
 

Cheng Ting Lin                                 B.A. Chemistry (2003)
Jiayi Yuan                                          M.Sc. Chemistry (2004)          Pharmacy Student, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Jamie Ryan                                       B.A. Chemistry (2004)
Geekita Gupta                                  B.A. Chemistry (2005)
Olga Lehkekhman                           B.A. Biochemistry &
                                                            Molecular Biology (2006)
Dan Schmitt                                      B.A. Chemistry (2006)             Graduate Student in Prof. Johnson’s Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of                                                                                                                      North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Stephanie Chichetti                         B.A. Chemistry (2006)             Merck&Co., Boston, MA
Malca Watkins
Dan Bruggemeyer                           B.A. Chemistry (2007)             Student at School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Adam Schell                                     B.A. Chemistry (2008)             Merck&Co., Boston, MA
Jessica Cifelli                                    B.A. Chemistry (2009)
Denise Grunenfelder                      B.A. Chemistry (2010)             Graduate student, Department of Chemistry, CalTech, Pasadena, CA
Arthur Su                                           B.A. Chemistry (2011)
Zach Ariki                                          B.A. Chemistry (2013)              Laboratory Technician, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Japan
Kelley Danahy                                  B.A. Chemistry (2014)              Graduate student, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Steve Stone                                      B.A. Chemistry (2014)
Kalina Doytchinova                         B.A. Chemistry (2016)              Graduate student, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Intermaggio                     B.A. Chemistry (2016)              E Ink Corporation, Billerica, MA

Annalisa Van-Wagner                     B.A. Chemistry (2017)

Andrew Cyr                                       M.Sc. Biotechnology (2019)    Research Assistant I, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Adam Zahara                                    B.A. Chemistry (2019)               Graduate student, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dominic Witkowski                          B.A. Chemistry (2020)              Graduate student at UCLA
Andrea Cheng                                  B.A. Chemistry (2020)
Matthew Dyer                                   B.A. Chemistry (2020)              Graduate student at UC Davis

*Attention former Porco Group Members: If your current position has changed, please notify us by email sswen@bu.edu
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