Doctoral Students
Name | Year of Graduation | Current Position (December, 2021) |
Dr. P.T. Ravi Rajagopalan | 1999 | Vice President, Blade Therapeutics, CA |
Dr. Yaoming Wei | 1999 | Director of Pharmacy, Saint Anthony Hospital, Chicago |
Dr. Kirk Beebe | 2000 | Chief Scientific Officer, GeneCentric Therapeutics, Inc., NC |
Dr. Gulnur Arabaci | 2001 | Associate Professor of Chemistry, Sakarya University, Turkey |
Dr. Peng Wang | 2002 | Associate Scientific Director, Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey |
Dr. Kiet T. Nguyen | 2005 | Chemist – OPQ at FDA, Maryland |
Dr. Jinge (Grace) Zhu | 2005 | Asst. Scientist at Deltanoid Pharmaceuticals |
Dr. Michael C. Sweeney | 2005 | Urologist, Marietta |
Dr. Junguk Park | 2005 | Director, BPS Bioscience, San Diego |
Dr. Anne-Sophie Wavreille | 2006 | Lab Head/ Functional Lead at Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland |
Dr. Sang Hoon Joo | 2007 | Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea |
Dr. Lige Ren | 2009 | Scientist, Hepalink Pharma, China |
Dr. Amit Thakkar | 2009 | Senior Director, Business Development – North America at STA Pharmaceutical, a WuXi AppTec Company, Philadelphia |
Dr. Yanyan Zhang | 2009 | Executive Director & Head of Downstream PD & Pilot Production, ChemPartner China |
Dr. Tao Liu | 2011 | Professor/PI at Peking University, China |
Dr. Xianwen Chen | 2011 | QC Scientist at Genentech |
Dr. Pauline Tan | 2011 | Investigator I, H3 Biomedicine, Cambridge |
Dr. Ryan Hard | 2013 | Project Scientist, University of California, San Diego |
Dr. Nicholas G. Selner | 2013 | Clinical Lab Scientist, US Army |
Dr. Thi Ba Trinh | 2014 | Advance Development Lead, Yale New Haven Hospital |
Dr. Rinrada Luechapanichkul | 2014 | National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand |
Dr. Punit Upadhyaya | 2014 | Senior Principal Scientist at Bicycle Therapeutics, Massachusetts |
Dr. Ziqing (Leo) Qian | 2014 | Co-Founder & Vice President Discovery Research, Entrada Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Wenlong Lian | 2015 | Senior Scientist, Entrada Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Hui Liao | 2018 | Associate Director, WuXi AppTec China |
Dr. Jin Wen | 2018 | Analytical Development Scientist, Spark Therapeutics, Philadephia |
Dr. Patrick Dougherty | 2019 | Scientist, Entrada Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Curran Rhodes | 2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr. John Schneekloth’s Lab at NCI, Maryland |
Dr. Kuangyu Chen | 2019 (Postdoc 2019-2020) | Clinical Scientist, Proctor & Gamble, Beijing |
Dr. George Appiah Kubi | 2020 | Scientist I, Entrada Therapeutics |
Dr. Marina Buyanova | 2021 | Principal Scientist, Grove Biopharma, Chicago |
Dr. Heba Salim | 2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis |
Dr. Amritendu Koley | 2021 | Senior Scientist, Mytide Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Ashweta sahni | 2022 | Scientist I , Entrada Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Jordan Hempfling | 2022 | Scientist, Curie Therapeutics, Boston |
Dr. Amar Sarkar | 2024 | Scientist III, Eurofins PSS Insourcing Solutions |
Postdoctoral Fellows
Name | PhD Institution | Years at OSU | Current Position |
Dr. Wen-lian Wu | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | 1995-1996 | Senior Scientist, Merck Research Laboratories |
Dr. Yun-Jin Hu | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | 1997-1998 | Executive Director, Pharmaron, China |
Dr. Xiao-Chuan Guo | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | 1998-1999 | |
Dr. Tian Yi | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | 1999-2000 | Lab Director at Alfa GlycoChem Inc., Ottawa |
Dr. Hua Fu | Tsinghua University | 2000-2002 | Professor, Tsinghua University, China |
Dr. Xubo Hu | Wuhan University | 2000-2003 | Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH |
Dr. Iliarian Dhimitruka | Wayne State University | 2004-2005 | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside |
Dr. Diana Imhof | Friedrich-Schiller University | 2004-2005 | Professor, University of Bonn, Germany |
Dr. Yun Ling | Beijing Institute of Technology | 2004-2005 | Associate Professor, China Agricultural University |
Dr. Chuanguang Qin | Huazhong Unversity of Science and Technology | 2004-2005 | Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China |
Dr. Gang Shen | Emory University | 2004-2005 | AstaTech, Inc. Princeton, NJ |
Dr. Qing Xiao | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | 2005-2007, 2008-2012 | Staff Scientist, Chemical Abstract Service, Columbus, OH |
Dr. Zhihong Liu | Wuhan University | 2006-2007 | Professor, Wuhan University, China |
Dr. Bhaskar Gopishetty | IICT (Osmania University), Hyderabad, India | 2005-2008 | |
Anne-Sophie Wavreille | Ohio State University | 2008 | Lab Head, Novartis, Switzerland |
Dr. Juan Shen | Singapore National University | 2008-2009 | Senior Manager, Bristol Myers Squibb, New Jersey |
Dr. Zhibin Song | Wuhan University | 2009-2010 | Associate Professor, Jiangxi Normal University, China |
Dr. Xianghong Wu | Auburn University | 2009-2012 | Research Scientist, Pharmaforce Inc. Columbus, OH |
Dr. Sihui Long | University of Kentucky | 2013-2014 | Vice Dean at Wuhan Institute of Technology, China |
Dr. Chao Hong | Fudan University | 2019-2021 | Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China |
Visiting Research Scholars
Name | PhD Institution | Years at OSU | Current Position |
Dr. Jian Song | 2016-2017 | Guangdong Pharmaceutical University | |
Dr. Xiaoyan Pan | 2017-2018 | School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University | |
Dr. Rui Yang | Wuhan University | 2018-2019 | Associate Professor, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China |
Masters of Science
Name | Year Of Graduation | Current Position (February, 2019) |
Kristi M. Huntington | 1999 | |
Jinu Shin | 1999 | |
Ying Zhou | 2001 | |
Sumant Srivathsan | 2002 | |
Renpeng Liu | 2005 | |
Anthony Simpson | 2005 | |
Jen-Chieh Wu | 2006 | |
Joo Hyun Ha | 2007 | |
Jing Zhang | 2007 | |
Mathieu Garaud | 2008 | |
Justin McMullen | 2009 | |
Tiffany Meyer | 2011 | |
Andrew Kunys | 2013 | |
Bisheng Jiang | 2015 | QA Manager, Pacific Rim LLC, Texas |
Yujing Zhai | 2015 | |
Luke McCroskey | 2015 | Instructor of Upper School Chemistry, Christ Presbyterian University, Tennessee |
Jahan K. Cooper | 2018 | |
Ruchira Basu | 2023 | |
Samantha Chrin | 2023 | PhD candidate in Science education |
Grant Steelman | 2024 | Lecturer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College |
Name | Year Of Graduation | Current Position (February, 2019) |
Kristi M. Huntington | 1999 | |
Jinu Shin | 1999 | |
Ying Zhou | 2001 | |
Sumant Srivathsan | 2002 | |
Renpeng Liu | 2005 | |
Anthony Simpson | 2005 | |
Jen-Chieh Wu | 2006 | |
Joo Hyun Ha | 2007 | |
Jing Zhang | 2007 | |
Mathieu Garaud | 2008 | |
Justin McMullen | 2009 | |
Tiffany Meyer | 2011 | |
Andrew Kunys | 2013 | |
Bisheng Jiang | 2015 | QA Manager, Pacific Rim LLC, Texas |
Yujing Zhai | 2015 | |
Luke McCroskey | 2015 | Instructor of Upper School Chemistry, Christ Presbyterian University, Tennessee |
Jahan K. Cooper | 2018 |
Undergraduates
Beth Besecker (REU student from University of Toledo)
Marc Lavender (The Ohio State University)
Jena Khera (REU student)
Jagruti Shah (The Ohio State University)
Stephanie Grimme (REU student)
Mary Porter (REU student)
David Martin (The Ohio State University)
Sam Durrani (The Ohio State University)
Douglas Pepple (REU student)
Wasseem Abugosh (REU student from New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Cheng Wu (The Ohio State University)
Yifan Wang (The Ohio State University)
Mirna Zakhary (The Ohio State University)
Nurlaila Asyura Abdul Habir (OSU Chemistry)
Sara Clippinger (The Ohio State University)
Brenna Collins (The Ohio State University)
Hannagh Smith (The Ohio State University)
Kaitlin M. Connor (The Ohio State University)
Daniel Goodman (The Ohio State University)
Yaqi Zhang (The Ohio State University)
Inhwa Park (The Ohio State University)
Davis Ballard (The Ohio State University)
Vincent D. Cianciola (The Ohio State University)
Thomas Patel (Protein Scientist at Cour Pharmaceuticals)
CJ (WVU School of Medicine)