Former Members of The Baran Group
Graduate Students
Noah Burns
(Columbia University) Currently: Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Michael DeMartino
(University of Delaware) Currently: GlaxoSmithKline
Carlos Guerrero
(Harvard University) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ben Hafensteiner
(University of Rochester) Currently: Instructor, Rochester University
Yoshihiro Ishihara
(McGill University) Currently: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Paul Krawczuk
(New York University) Currently: Johnson & Johnson
David Lin
(Stanford University) Currently: Johnson & Johnson
Jonathan Lockner
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Currently: Chair ACS San Diego
Dan O’Malley
(Rice University) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Tim Newhouse
(Colby College) Currently: Assistant Professor, Yale University
Jeremy Richter
(Butler University) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Tom Maimone
(University of California, Berkeley) Currently: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Ian Seiple
(University of California, Berkeley) Currently: Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco
Ryan Shenvi
(Penn State University) Currently: Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute
Jun Shi
(Wuhan University, China) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ana-Florina Voica
(Smith College) Currently: Gilead
Hans Renata
(Columbia University) Currently: Assistant Professor, Scripps Florida
Will Gutekunst
(University of Oklahoma) Currently: Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Klement Foo
(Imperial College London) Currently: A*STAR Research Center
Emily Cherney
(The College of New Jersey) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Steve McKerrall
(University of Maryland, Baltimore) Currently: Genentech
Dane Holte
(Northwestern University) Currently: Stemcentrx
Rodrigo Rodriguez
(San Diego State University) Currently: GNF
Quentin Michaudel
(École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Brett Fors
Ryan Gianatassio
Currently: Biogen
Brandon Rosen
(University of Michigan) Currently: Arcus Biosciences
Nathan Wilde
(Brigham Young University) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate E. J. Corey
Leah Simke
(University of Michigan) Currently: Pharmaron
Hai Dao
Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Tom Muir
Matt Villaume
Currently: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Artiom Cernijenko
(Oxford University) Currently: Novartis
Julian Lo
(University of Minnesota) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Ruben Martinez
(University Of California Urvine) Currently: IDEAYA Pharma
Ming Yan
(LaFayette College) Currently: Fish & Richardson
Marcus Farmer
(University of South Florida) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Paul Chirik
Hang Chu
(University of Chicago) Currently: Gilead
Jacob Edwards
(University of Minnesota) Currently: Celgene
Yi Yang See
(University of Cambridge) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Melanie Sanford
Justine deGruyter
(New Mexico State University) Currently: Fish & Richardson
Rohan Merchant
(University College London) Merck
Yuzuru Kanda
(University of Tokyo) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate in Radosevich Lab (MIT)
Solomon Reisberg
(Kenyon College) Currently: Third Rock Ventures
Thomas Stratton
(Rutgers University) Currently: Gilead
Kyle McClymont
(University of Ottawa) Currently: Merck
Lisa Barton
(Northeastern University) Currently: Genentech
Kyle Knouse
(Temple University) Currently: Co-Founder at Elsie Biotechnologies
David Peters
(USD) Currently: BMS
Jieyu Gu
(Peking University of Health Science Center)
Currently: Neurocrine Biosciences
Stephen Harwood
(UC Berkeley) Currently: Mirati Therapeutics
Maximilian Palkowitz
(Boston College) Currently: Bristol Myers Squibb
Junchen Tang
(Peking University) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate in Parker lab (Scripps Research)
Cheng Bi
(Nankai University) Currently: Merck
Dongmin Xu
(Boston College) Currently: Neurocrine Biosciences
Brendyn Smith
(Michigan State University) Currently: Gilead
Kelly Eberle
(University of Pennsylvania)
Alex Rerick
Baylor University
NSF GRFP
Postdoctoral Associates
Alexandros Zografos
(National Technical University of Athens) Currently: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ian Young
(University of Western Ontario) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Karin Weidner
(University of Bern) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Masakatsu Shibasaki
Junichiro Yamaguchi
(Tokyo University of Science) Currently: Associate Professor, Nagoya University
Ippei Usui
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Currently: Sirenas Marine Discovery
Andreas Weickgenannt
(Westfälische Wilhelms– Universität Münster) Currently: BASF
Shun Su
(Boston University) Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Damien Thevenet
(University of Neuchâtel) Currently: Postdoctoral Associate Reinhard Neier
Niklas Schöne
(Universität Stuttgart) Currently: Sandoz, Austria
Hiroki Shigehisa
(Hoshi University) Currently: Assistant Professor, Musashino University
Masanori Nagatomo
(The University of Tokyo) Currently: Assistant Professor, The University of Tokyo
Elena Petricci
(Università degli Studi di Siena) Currently: Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Michael Maue
(Philipps-Universtität Marburg) Currently: Bayer CropScience
Abraham Mendoza
(University of Oviedo) Currently: Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
Georg Manolikakes
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Currently: Geothe Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Takeshi Masuda
(University of Tokyo) Currently: Daiichi-Sankyo Co., Ltd.
Ke Li
(New York University) Currently: DuPont
Mike Luzung
(University of California, Berkeley)
Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chad Lewis
(Yale University)
Currently: Pfizer
Chuang Chuang Li
(Peking University, China)
Tanja Gulder
(University of Würzburg)
Currently: Research Group Leader, Technische Universität München
Mikkel Jessing
(Technical University of Denmark)
Currently: H. Lundbeck A/S
Yuta Fujiwara
(Gifu Pharmaceutical University)
Currently: Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ldt.
Daniel Götz
(University of Würzburg)
Currently: Bayer, Wuppertal
Kyle Eastman
(Penn State University)
Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Tanja Gaich
(University of Vienna)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Ke Chen
(University of Rochester)
Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Darryl Dixon
(University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Moritz Biskup
(Universität Konstanz)
Currently: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Tobias Brückl
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Currently: Merck Serano
Narendra Ambhaikar
(Emory University)
Currently: TEVA Pharmaceuticals
Shinji Ashida
(Kyoto University)
Currently: Daiichi-Sankyo Co., Ltd.
Jason Green
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
Currently: Takeda San Diego
Guillaume Journot
(University of Neuchâtel)
Currently: University of Munich
Lars Joergensen
(University of Copenhagen)
Currently: LEO Pharma
Christian Kuttruff
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Currently: Boehringer Ingelheim
Fionn O’Hara
(University of Cambridge)
Currently: Roche
Minetaka Isomura
(The University of Tokyo)
Currently: Eisai Co., Ltd.
Erik Werner
(University of Utah)
Currently: Gilead Sciences
Insa Prochnow
(University of Oldenburg)
Sarah Wengryniuk
(Duke University)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Temple University
Akinobu Maruyama
(Osaka University)
Currently: Teijin Pharma. Limited
Yuki Yabe
(Gifu Pharmaceutical University)
Currently: Eisai
Bart Roman
(Ghent University)
Currently: Ghent University
Rune Risgaard
(University of Copenhagen)
Currently: LEO Pharma
Isabelle Thome
(RWTH Aachen University)
Currently: Roche
Qianghui Zhou
Currently: Professor, Wuhan University
Chien-Hung Yeh
(National Tsing Hua University)
Currently: TSRI
Myles Smith
(Columbia University)
Currently: Stanford
Ying Jin
Currently: Professor, Jilin Medical College
Eran Sella
Currently: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Kevin Oberg
(Colorado State University)
Currently: Eli Lilly
Yehua Jin
-
Changxia Yuan
Currently: Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jinghan Gui
(SIOC)
Currently: Professor, SIOC
Shuhei Kawamura
(Hokkaido University)
Currently: Merck
Yu Feng
Currently: Abide Therapeutics
Chung-Mao Pan
(San Diego State University)
Currently: Sirenas Marine Discovery
Fumihiko Toriyama
Currently: Daiichisankyo Co., Ltd.
Evan Horn
(University of California, Urvine)
Currently: Celgene
Shigenobu Umemiya
(Tohoku University)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Tohoku University
Maoqun Tian
Currently: Merck
Josep Cornella
(Queen Mary University of London)
Currently: Professor, Max Planck
Justin M. Lopchuk
(Dartmouth)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center
Aaron Herrmann
(University of California, Santa Barbra)
Currently: Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Koji Kobayashi
Currently: Astellas Pharmaceuticals
Lara Malins
(The University of Sydney)
Currently: Assistant Professor Australia National University
Laurin Wimmer
(Vienna University of Technology)
Currently: Novartis
Chao Li
(National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing)
Currently: Assistant Professor, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
Mayumi Yamaguchi
-
Joel Smith
(UCLA)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Javier Lopez Ogalla
-
Tian Qin
(Boston University)
Currently: Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern
Chuanguan Qin
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Karla Feu
The University of Campinas
Jie Wang
SIOC
Currently: Calibr
David Kossler
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Shota Asai
Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Currently: Iwate University
Pavel Mykhailiuk
Enamine Ltd
Jinbao Xiang
Jilin University
Massimiliano Lamberto
Monmouth University
Xuejing Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University
Cian Kingston
(University College Dublin)
Currently: Postdoctoral Associate at The University of Utah with Matt Sigman
Tie-Gen Chen
SIOC
Yusuke Takahira
AGC Asahi Glass
Johannes Teske
University of Stuttgart
Byron Peters
(Stockholm University)
Currently: Merck
Natalia Muñoz Padial
Currently: University of Granada
Ming Shang
(SIOC)
Currently: Assistant Professor at SJTU
Julien Vantourout
(University of Strathclyde)
Currently: Assistant Professor at CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Gary Hermann
(RTWH Aachen University)
Currently: Bayer
Pengfei Hu
(University of Chicago)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Westlake University
Cody Pitts
(Johns Hopkins University)
Currently: Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Rafael Navrátil
(Charles University)
Currently: Research Group Leader, Charles University
Hugh Nakamura
(Kyoto University)
Currently: Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kevin Rodriguez
(University of Notre Dame)
Currently: Gilead
Michael Meanwell
Currently: University of Alberta
Chi He
Currently: BMS
Kyohei Hayashi
Currently: PLEXIUM
Adriano Bauer
(University of Vienna)
Currently: Amgen
Jin Choi
(Seoul National University)
Currently: Odyssey Therapeutics
Samer Gnaim
(Tel-Aviv University)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science
Debora Chiodi
(University of Pavia)
Currently: Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Terry Lou
(University of Oxford)
Currently: Octant
Hai-Jun Zhang
-
Manolis Sofiadis
(University of Crete)
Currently: Postdoctoral Associate in Ritter lab (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung)
You-Chen Lin
(North Carolina State University)
Currently: Architect Therapeutics
Michal Ociepa
(Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science)
Currently: Assistant Professor at Institute of Organic Chemistry PAS
Yoshifumi Kusumoto
(Tokyo University; Shionogi & Co., Ltd)
Cheng Bi
(Scripps Research)
Currently: Merck
Gabriele Laudadio
(University of Amsterdam)
Currently: University Associate in Kappe lab (University of Graz)
Alberto Garrido-Castro
(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Yang Gao
(SIOC)
Dongmin Xu
(Boston College)
Currently: Neurocrine Biosciences
Nathanyal Truax
(Baylor University)
Currently: Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Benxiang Zhang
(Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry)
Currently: SIOC
Mike Bielecki
(Simon Fraser University)
Luca Massaro
Stockholm University
The Swedish Research Council Fund
Stiftelsen Bengt Lundqvists minne Fellowship
Áron Péter
The University of Manchester
Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Matteo Costantini
(Stockholm University)
Fabian Schneider
(University of Konstanz)
Yu Wang
SIOC
Jiayan He
SIOC
SIOC Fellowship
SIOC
SIOC Fellowship
SIOC Fellowship
Jiawei Sun
SIOC
SIOC Fellowship
SIOC Fellowship
Nils Kurig
RWTH Aachen University
Leopoldina Postdoctoral Fellowship
Xin Zeng
SIOC
SIOC Fellowship
Jet Tsien
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Visiting Graduate Students
Jessica Giacoboni
University of Copenhagen-Lundbeck
Liher Prieto
University of the Basque Country
Chien-Hung Yeh
National Tsing Hua University
Jose Antonio Romero Revilla
Autonoma University of Madrid
Roy Weinstein
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Takeshi Yasui
Nagoya University
Felix Ungeheuer
University of Frankfurt
Tatsuya Urushima
Tokyo University of Science
Eran Sella
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Julian Shaw
Trinity College, Dublin
Amit Sagi
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mariá Escribano Santamarina
Universidad De Oviedo, Spain
Rune Risgaard
University of Copenhagen
Alessandro Ruffoni
University of Milan D.I.S.F.A.R.M.
Akifumi Nakamura
The University of Tokyo
Antti Pohjakallio
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu-Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tomás Llamas
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Quentin Michaudel
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Yi Ning Ji Chen
Science Park of Barcelona
Lars Joergensen
University of Copenhagen
Kentaro Iso
Tohoku University
Mikkel Jessing
Technical University of Denmark
Cornelius Gropp
University of Heidelberg
Bart Herle
University of Amsterdam
Jorge Otero Fraga
University of Santiago de Compostela
Mariá Morón Galán
Universidad De Alcalá, Spain
Johan Dam
Technical University of Denmark
Victoriano Domingo
University of Granada
Pilar Castroviejo
Universidad de Burgos, Spain
Erik Daa Funder
University of Aarhus
César Rogelio Solorio Alvarado
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonya
Ivan Bernar
UpSolution Team Freie Universität Berlin
Marta Artola
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Yu Kawamata
Kyoto University
Albano Galan
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia
Jochen Zoller
UpSolution Team RWTH Aachen University
Fei Ji
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Yoshinori Aihara
Osaka University
Sara Gutiérrez Hernández
University of Alcalá
Bala’zs Budai
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Iago Alonso Vicente
University of Vigo
Nathan Ferrandin
University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris
Kasper Fjelbye
University of Copenhagen
Alex Novak
LMU Munich
Frederik Sandfort
University of Muenster
Lukas Nattmann
University of Muenster
Julien Vantourout
GSK–University of Strathclyde
Luca Buzzetti
ICIQ
Lucas Gottemann
LMU Munich
Monika Kruszyk
University of Copenhagen
Iñaki Bastida
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Pedro Martín-Acosta
University Of La Laguna (IUBO-AG)
Cian Kingston
University College Dublin
Amin Minakar
University of Cologne
Sebastian Beil
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Alberto Garrido-Castro
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Kosuke Yasui
Osaka University
Juan Miguel Lopez Soria
Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiologia
Paula Fernández Canelas
University of Oviedo
Shengyang Ni
Nanjing University
Mauro Mato Gomez
ICIQ (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia)
Michal Ociepa
Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science
Alexander Sandahl
Aarhus University
Nazaret Rivas Bascón
University of Granada
Eva Rivera Chao
University of Santiago
Tao Sheng
Nanjing Agriculture University
Karolina Kowalska
University of Copenhagen
Adam Mickiewicz University
Yuxuan Chang
Nankai University
Edgar Molle
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Henrik Wilke
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Simon Kolb
Technical University of Braunschweig
Sara
ICIQ
Laura Levy
CPE Lyon
Melania Prado Merini
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Benedikt Nissl
LMU Munich
Hirofumi Endo
Tottori University
Yasuhiro Yamauchi
Osaka University
Luca Gherardi
University of Pisa
Martín Piñeiro Suárez
Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Biolóxica e Materiais Moleculares (CiQUS)
Flynn Attard
Australian National University
Luis Oxenfart
Technical University of Munich
Tobias Stoffels
University of Münster
Joshua Imasuen
University of Freiburg
Daiki Yamamoto
Chiba University and RIKEN
Tomoya Imai
Nagoya City University
Carla Capone
ENS Paris Saclay
Paul Muller
National Graduate School of Chemistry of Montpellier (ENSCM)
Undergraduate Students
Michael Giambrone
Cornell University
Brady Worrell
Purdue University
Ming Yan
Lafayette College
Cecil Eprile
Cornell University
Chao Wang
Lafayette College
Benjamin Winer
Diablo Valley College
Zachary Sweeney
Centre College
Brandon Whitefield
University of California San Diego
Leah Simke
University of Michigan
Adam Sobel
University of Michigan
Steven Nguyen
University of California San Diego
Jonathan Nelson
University of California, San Diego
Joe Nagamizo
University of California, San Diego
Alex Nanna
Albion College
Soniya Gunjikar
University Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Rohan Merchant
University College London
Matt Del Bel
University of California, San Diego
Ryan Gianatassio
UMass–Boston
Angela Bai
University of California, San Diego
Sylvia Chen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Garrett Michael Saul
University of California, San Diego
Lily Moloney
Augsburg College
Bryan J. Lee
University of California, San Diego
Kevin Nguyen
University of California, San Diego
Matthew ONeill
Notre Dame
Qian Zhenghao
University of Science and Technology of China
Cheng Bi
Nankai University
Yutong Lin
Nankai University
Brendyn Smith
Michigan State University
Jered Vaichis
University of California Irvine
Katarzyna Maziarz
Mount Holyoke College
Haolin Zhang
Tsinghua University
Zeyi “Tony“ Huang
Nankai University
Fengyuan Wang
Tsinghua University
Miao Chen
Nankai University
Yunyeong Gwon
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Rohan Narayan
University of Delaware
Yuan Yuan
Peking University
Yuxuan Chang
Nankai University
Pierre Loch-Temzelides
Rice University
Eriks Zamurs
Williams College
Meredith Holm
University of Michigan
Chenxin Lu
Nankai University
Yige Wu
University of California, San Diego
John Greene
University of California, San Diego
Gannon Kuehn
Concordia College
Marcell Bogner
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Oscar Poll
University of Oxford
Haoxiang Zhang
Nankai University
Andrew Feng
MIT
Sihan Chen
Nankai University
Jiapei Zhang
Shandong University
Yixin Liu
Nankai University & Tianjin University
Lee Wai Yin, Catto
HKUST
Lucas Zhang
Northwestern University, Evanston
Liam Li
Imperial College London
Bohan Lin
Imperial College London
Charlotte Sach
UC San Diego
High School Students
Lazer Shelley
Kearny High School
Jason Ge
UpSolution Team / Westview High School
Derek Barbas
Torrey Pines High School
Marcus Bray
UpSolution Team / Torrey Pines High School
Jacob Zhong
John P. Stevens High School
Antony Yu
Torrey Pines High School
Anish Velaparthi
West Windsor Plainsboro High School North
Anthony Oleksenko
Torrey Pines High School
Gohith Boga
Torrey Pines High School
Asha Gollapudi
Torrey Pines High School
Ava Desanti
Torrey Pines High School
Lab Assistant
Nick Raheja
UC Riverside
Lucia Baran
Naga Gudimella
Visiting Scientist from Chemveda
