October 2024
The group successfully escaped at our team bonding outing at Lockology.
December 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Nate Ward for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
Group dinner at the 2022 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference, San Francisco, CA.
Group trolley ride at the 2022 Chemical and Biological Defense Science & Technology Conference, San Francisco, CA.
September 2022
Congratulations to Stacey Allen for presenting on Improving Anti-Aging Treatments: Nullifying Organophosphorus Poisoned Acetylcholinesterase with Quinone Methide Precursors at the 14th International Meeting on Cholinesterases and 8th International Conference on Paraoxonases, Bologna, Italy, September 19, 2022.
August 2022
Congratulations to several group members:
-Adam Reed for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Kevin Miller for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
July 2022
Congratulations to several group members:
-Amy (Yiran) He for successfully defending her candidacy exam!
-Alex Lovins for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Dr. Remy Lalisse for successfully defending his PhD and is beginning Post-Doc work with Dr. Osvaldo Gutierrez!
June 2022
Congratulations to several group members at The 15th Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium:
-Annie Buck for presenting on Resurrection of Methylphosphonate-Aged Acetylcholinesterase Variants by Phenolic Quinone Methide Precursors
-Stacey Allen for presenting on Resurrecting the Dead: Recovery of Organophosphorus Poisoned AChE using Quinone Methide Precursors
May 2022
-Job well done to first-year students on completing orals!
-Ben Clark will be joining GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Philadelphia for a summer internship
March 2022
Congratulations to several group members at the “Bonding through Chemistry” Spring ACS Meeting in San Diego:
-Ben Clark for presenting on the Synthesis of Novel Indanone Linked Quinone Methide Precursors for the Treatment of Organophosphorus Poisoning
-Kenny Nguyen for presenting on Exploring Bicyclic Heteroarenes as Quinone Methide Precursors to Combat Organophosphorus Poisoning
-Stacey Allen for presenting on Resurrecting the Dead: Recovery of Organophosphorus Poisoned AChE using Quinone Methide Precursors
November 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Ben Clark for presenting on the Synthesis of Novel Indanone Linked Quinone Methide Precursors for the Treatment of Organophosphorus Poisoning at the Dow Graduate Student Symposium
October 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Ben Clark for presenting on the Synthesis of Novel Indanone Linked Quinone Methide Precursors for the Treatment of Organophosphorus Poisoning at the Paquette Symposium
-Stacey Allen for presenting on the Resurrection of Organophosphorus Poisoned Acetylcholinesterase with Quinone Methide Precursors and Improving Methods of Detection at the Hart Symposium
September 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Will Clay and Benjamin Clark for a softball championship!
August 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Anne Buck for successfully defending her candidacy exam!
-Stacey Allen for successfully defending her candidacy exam!
-Matt Fitzsimmons for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
June 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Kenny Nguyen for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Amy He has successfully defended her masters thesis!
-Will Clay for presenting on the Impact of Acyclic Amine Leaving Groups on Quinone Methide Precursors for Resurrection of Organophosphorus-aged Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) at the ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM)
-Christopher Codogni for presenting on the Synthesis of Novel Quinone Methide Precursors as Potential Resurrectors and Reactivators of Aged and Inhibited Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) at the ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM)
May 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Mayukh Majumder for joining us in a summer rotation to explore computational organometallic chemistry in collaboration with the RajanBabu group at OSU!
-Will Clay for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Job well done to first year students on completing orals!
March 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Congratulations to Joe Rodriguez for making news on the the c&en website for the ACS Bridge Program!
-Congratulations to former group member Ryan Hopf in getting a job at L’Oreal!
January 2021
Congratulations to several group members:
-Congratulations to Dr. Ola Nosseir for successfully defending her PhD thesis and presenting her work at the College of Pharmacy!
-Congratulations to Ben Clark for presenting our group poster on the Resurrection of Organophosphorus-aged Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) by Quinone Methide Precursors at the Dual Degree Conference!
December 2020
The Hadad Group is very happy to welcome several new members to our group. Welcome to first years: Alex Lovins, Kevin Miller, and Adam Reed!
November 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Bill Coldren on beginning work in computational drug discovery for Arrakis Therapeutics in Boston, Massachusetts!
July 2020
Congratulations to several group members:
-Stacey Allen has successfully defended her masters thesis! She has also been featured as an example researcher for the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot for in-vitro screening!
-Ryan Hopf has successfully defended his masters thesis and will be moving on to industry jobs in New Jersey!
May 2020
Congratulations to several group members:
-Joe Fernendez for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Benjamin Clark for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
-Job well done to first year students on completing orals!
February 2020
Rémy Lalisse attended the 60th Sanibel Conference in St. Simons Island, Georgia! Congratulations on winning the Best Graduate Student Award!
December 2019
The Hadad Group is very happy to welcome several new members to our group. Welcome to first years: William Clay, Anne Buck, Matthew Fitzsimmons, Amy He, Joe Rodriguez, and Kenny Nguyen!
November 2019
Congratulations to Nathan Ward for successfully defending his candidacy exam!
August 2019
Congratulations to several group members:
-Jeremy Lear, on successfully defending his Ph.D. and welcome to the group!
-Nathan Ward for successfully defending his master’s thesis!
-Leilani Lotti Diaz for successfully defending her master’s thesis and moving on to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in Columbus, Ohio!
-Undergraduate Kassandra Warnecke has graduated OSU and continuing her graduate career in chemistry at Purdue University!
December 2017
Congratulations to Remy Lalisse for successfully passing his candidacy exam!
May 2019
Job well done to first years for completing orals!
November 2018
Andrew’s review has been accepted into Chemistry: A European Journal. Congrats, Andrew!
September 2018
Graduate student Andrew Franjesevic will be presenting at the 13th International Meeting on Cholinesterases and the 7th International Conference on Paraxonases in the Czech Republic best of luck to Andrew have fun in Europe!
August 2018
Congratulations to all those who are leaving our group!
-Dr. Jojo Joseph received a full-time position at Urbana University.
-Dr. Bill Coldren successfully defended his PhD and is beginning Post-Doc work with Dr. Steffen Lindert.
-Undergraduate Sydney Sillart has completed a long a fruitful undergraduate career and will begin medical school at Wash U.
-Undergraduate Amor Niksic returns home to Wittenberg after a summer of research.
May 2018
Job well done to first years for completing orals!
December 2017
Graduate students Leilani Lotti Diaz, Joe Fernandez, Remy Lalisse, and Nate Ward join the lab. Welcome!
Congratulations to graduate student Ola Nosseir for successfully passing her candidacy exam!
May 2017
Congratulations to graduate students Ryan McKenney, Tom Corrigan, Benjamin Garrett, and Shane Polen for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses!
June 2015
Congratulations to Shane Polen for passing his candidacy exam!
June 2015
Congratulations to Jason Brown for winning 1st place in the 2015 OSC SUG Meeting Flash Talks contest!
May 2015
Congratulations to Ben Garrett for passing his candidacy exam!
January 2015
Congratulations to Amneh Awad and Ryan McKenney for both passing their candidacy exams!
January 2015
The Hadad Group welcomes 1 new graduate student: Andrew Franjesevic.
December 2014
The Hadad Group is excited to move to new lab and office space in the newly built Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Chemistry (CBEC) Building.
Previous Group Pictures
March 2019
Spring 2013
Summer 2011
Fall 2010
Fall 2009
Spring 2008