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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
Dr. Jeffrey Henry

Associate Professor, University of Paris — XI, France  (Group Page)
Discovery Services Lead, Syngene International Limited Hyderabad, India (LinkedIn)
Pharm-Eco, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, MA (Group Page)
Abbott Pharmaceuticals, Manheim, Germany
Senior Principal Scientist, Eisai Research Institute, Andover, MA (LinkedIn)
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Physics, Roger Williams University, RI (Group Page)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Florida Atlantic University, FL (LinkedIn)
Production Manager, BASF, Germany (LinkedIn)
Senior Counsel, IP at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, MA (LinkedIn)
Director, Chemical Sciences at Paraza Pharma Inc., Canada (LinkedIn)
Team Manager, BioSolutions at Labcorp Biopharma, Switzerland (LinkedIn)
Research Associate Scientist, Northeastern University (LinkedIn)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, MN (Group Page)
Principal Scientist II, Schrödinger, NY (LinkedIn)
Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry at Aleksia Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Principal Scientist, Biogen, MA (LinkedIn)
Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, Japan (Group Page)
Principal Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, CA (LinkedIn)
Patent Agent, Fish & Richardson P.C., MA (LinkedIn)
Associate Principal Scientist, Oncology Chemistry at AstraZeneca, MA (LinkedIn)
Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Amgen, CA (LinkedIn)
Scientist, Eisai, MA (LinkedIn)

Former Graduate Students         Degree

Scott Magee  ​                                         M.A. (2001)
​Dr. Ruichao Shen                                  Ph.D. (2004)
Dr. Chaomin Li                                      Ph.D. (2004)
Yongbo Hu​                                              M.A. (2002)
Dr. Xiang Wang                                     Ph.D. (2005)
​William Phillips                                      M.A. (2005)
Danielle Solano                                     M.A. (2006)
Dr. Dawn Troast                                    Ph.D. (2006)
Dr. Xiaoguang Lei                                 Ph.D. (2006)
Dr. Shun Su                                            Ph.D. (2007)
Dr. Jianglong Zhu                                 Ph.D. (2007)
Dr. Sujata Bardhan                               Ph.D. (2007)
Dr. Baudouin Gerard                            Ph.D. (2007)
​Dr. Chong Han                                      Ph.D. (2008)
Dr. Andrew Germain                            Ph.D. (2009)
Dr. Ji Qi                                                  Ph.D. (2009) 
Dr. Andrew Kleinke                              Ph.D. (2010)
Dr. Suwei Dong                                    Ph.D. (2010) 
Dr. David Sloman                                  Ph.D. (2011) 
Dr. Stephen Scully                                Ph.D. (2011) 
Dr. Huan Cong                                       Ph.D. (2011)  
Dr. Qiang Zhang                                    Ph.D. (2011) 
Daniel Podgorski                                   M.A. (2012)
Dr. Andrew Little                                  Ph.D. (2013) 
Dr. Yuan Xiong                                      Ph.D. (2013)
Nicholas Grigoriadis                             M.A. (2014)
Sarah Spiegel                                        M.A. (2014) 
Dr. Anaïs Gervais                                  Ph.D. (2014) 
​Dr. Neil Lajkiewicz                                Ph.D. (2014)
Dr. Tian Qin                                            Ph.D. (2014) 
Dr. Robert Ziegler                                 Ph.D. (2015)
Dr. Diane Hamann                                Ph.D. (2016) 
Dr. Chao Qi                                             Ph.D. (2016) 
Dr. Gina Kim                                           Ph.D. (2017)
Dr. Jonathan Boyce                              Ph.D. (2017)
Dr. Wenyu Wang                                   Ph.D. (2017) 
​Dr. Thomas Purgett                             Ph. D. (2019)
​Dr. Xiaowei Wu                                     Ph. D. (2019)
Dr. Michael Smith                                 Ph. D. (2021)
Dr. Saishuai Wen                                  Ph. D. (2021)
Dr. Chun Chen                                      Ph. D. (2021)
Dr. Zachary Powers                              Ph. D. (2021)
Dr. Tyler Rauwolf                                  Ph. D. (2022)
William Gilmore                                     M.A. (2022) 
Dr. Mackenzie Marrs                             Ph.D. (2022)
Dr. Madison Powers                              Ph.D. (2022)
​Sloane O'Neill                                         M.A. (2022) 
Dr. Feng Yang                                        Ph.D. (2023)
Dr. Kaijie Ji                                              Ph.D. (2024)
Current Position

Member, Morse, MA (LinkedIn)
​Principal Scientist, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, MA (LinkedIn)
​Director, Head of Small Molecule Chemistry Development at Merck, MA (LinkedIn)
Director II, WuXi Biologics, China (LinkedIn) 
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, CO (Group Website)

​Professor, California State University, Bakersfield, CA (LinkedIn)
Director, Medicinal Chemistry at Flare Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Professor, Department of Chemical Biology, Peking University, China (Group Website)
Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb, MA (LinkedIn)
Professor, University of Toledo, OH (Group Website)
Program Director, NICHD, MD (LinkedIn)
Director, Chemistry at Nuvalent, Inc., MA (LinkedIn) 
Senior Director, Head of Process Chemistry at Genentech, CA (LinkedIn)
Vice President, Legal at Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc,  MA (LinkedIn)
​Distinguished Scientist, MSD, China (LinkedIn)
Director, Drug Substance Development at Boundless Bio, CA (LinkedIn)
Associate Professor, Peking University, China (Group Website)
Principal Scientist, Merck, MA (LinkedIn)
Co-Founder, Liberate Bio, MA (LinkedIn)
Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Group Website)
Associate Professor, University at Albany, NY (Group Website)
Patent Agent, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, DC (LinkedIn)
Senior Scientist II, AbbVie, MA (LinkedIn) 
Senior Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, MA (LinkedIn)

​Physician, NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, NY (LinkedIn)
Director, Business and Commercial Strategy at Foghorn Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Principal Scientist, Kestrel Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Associate Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center, TX (Group Website)
Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca, MA (LinkedIn)
Principal Scientist, Rgenta Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Associate Director, Synnovation Therapeutics, DE (LinkedIn)
Associate, Goodwin, MA (LinkedIn)
Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, OH (Group Website)
Senior Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, MA (LinkedIn)
Principal Scientist, Rapport Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Director, Chemistry at Prelude Therapeutics, DE (LinkedIn)
Engagement Manager, Trinity Life Sciences, MA (LinkedIn)
Senior Research Scientist, Prelude Therapeutics, DE (LinkedIn)
Senior Research Scientist, Prelude Therapeutics, DE (LinkedIn)
Senior Research Scientist I, Curia, NY (LinkedIn)
CEO, The Fit Chemist LLC, FL (LinkedIn)
Senior Research Associate, Takeda, MA (LinkedIn)
Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, CA (LinkedIn)
Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, MA (LinkedIn)
Scientific Writer, Specialist II, PTC Therapeutics, MA (LinkedIn)
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, CT (LinkedIn)
Senior Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, CT (LinkedIn)


Former Visiting Scholars             Current Position

Dr. Cynthia McGowan                                 Professor Emeritus, Merrimack College, MA
Sandra Taliansky Chamudis                      
Jennifer Treece                                            Project Manager, FLIR Systems​, PA
Daisuke Suzuki                                             
Antonia Behnsen                                         Graduate Student, Technical University of Munich, Germany

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 Zihao by email [email protected]
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