Former Lab Members

Former Post-Docs


Dr. Navendu Jana
Ph.D.: University of Illinois at Chicago (2017)
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Tom Driver

Dr. Michael Holzwarth
Material compliance, Parker Hannifin

Former Graduate Students


2024

Dr. Bryant Lim
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCR

Dr. Jessica Pazienza

2023


Dr. “Pistol” Paul “The Wall” “Birdman” Carlson
Senior Scientist, Cogent Biosciences

2022

Dr. Charles Dooley III
Process Development Senior Scientist, Amgen

Dr. Leah Salituro
Senior Scientist, Cogent Biosciences

Kha Nguyen, M.S.

2020

Dr. Alexander “Sunshine” Burns
Senior Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Johnson and Johnson

2019

Dr. Sarah Block
CW Analytical

Dr. Alexander Burtea
Principal Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer

Alexander Emilio Valdes, M.S.
Associate Scientist, Janssen

2017

Dr. Jacob DeForest
Principal Scientist, Medicinal chemistry at Pfizer

Dr. Greg Suryn
Lecturer of chemistry at Gettysburg College

Dr. Eric Novitsky
Chemistry Instructor at Cuesta College


2016

Dr. Richard Hill
Orasis Medical Inc.

Dr. Justin Hilf
Senior scientist, medicinal chemistry at 1200 pharma


2015


Dr. Renzo Samame
Senior Scientist at Corteva Agriscience

Dr. Alex Wagner
Director of global product stewardship at Edwards Lifesciences

Former Undergraduates


Ngoc Hong Le “Mina”
UCI class of 2024
ngochl1@uci.edu

Yiyang Li
UCI class of 2023

Emily Kish
Smith College

Ly Hoang
UCI Class of 2022

Christina Mitilian
UCI Class of 2018

Mary Villarreal
UCI Class of 2018