Directory of Members

Becoming a Member

Faculty and Advisory Committee

Name	Positions
Robert Vince	Director, Center for Drug Design Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Courtney Aldrich	Associate Professor, Center for Drug Design Associate Director, Center for Drug Design
Kumar G. Belani	Member, Center for Drug Design Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
David M. Ferguson	Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Stephen S. Hecht	Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee Professor, University of Minnesota Cancer Center
Thomas R. Hoye	Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee Professor, Department of Chemistry
Yinduo Ji	Member, Center for Drug Design Assistant Professor, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Louis M. Mansky	Member, Center for Drug Design Director, Institute for Molecular Virology Professor, Departments of Microbiology and Diagnostic and Biological Sciences
Herbert Nagasawa	Adjunct Member, Center for Drug Design
Irina Nesmelova	Member, Center of Drug Design, Research Assistant Professor Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Krzysztof W. Pankiewicz	Professor, Center for Drug Design Senior Associate Director, Center for Drug Design Center for Drug Design Advisory Commitee Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Steve Patterson	Associate Professor, Center for Drug Design Associate Director, Center for Drug Design Center for Drug Design Advisory Commitee
Christine Salomon	Assistant Professor, Center for Drug Design Assistant Director, Center for Drug Design
Yuk Sham	Assistant Professor, Center for Drug Design Assistant Director, Center for Drug Design
William M. Shannon	Consultant
Thomas Shier	Center for Drug Design Advisory Commitee Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Paul Tuite	Member, Center for Drug Design Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Director, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic
Zhengqiang Wang	Assistant Professor, Center for Drug Design Assistant Director, Center for Drug Design
George L. Wilcox	Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Administrative Staff

Name	Position
Elizabeth Wolfson	Associate Director Center for Drug Design Advisory Committee
Wanda Lee	Principal Accountant
Julie Schneider	Executive Accountants Specialist

Research Staff

Group photos of the research staff are also available. Note: the group photos are not currently up to date.

Name	Position	Research Group
Jay Chauhan	Postdoctoral Associate	Patterson
Liqiang Chen	Research Associate	Pankiewicz
Siyuan Chen	Postdoctoral Associate	Vince/Want
Narsihmulu Cheryala	Research Assistant	Vince
Christine Dreis	Scientist	Vince
Benjamin Duckworth	Postdoctoral Associate	Aldrich
Krzysztof Felczak	Research Associate	Pankiewicz
Amol Gupte	Postdoctoral Associate	Aldrich
Mei Hua	Research Associate	Vince
Jessica Keller	Assistant Scientist	Aldrich
Nicholas Labello	Postdoctoral Associate	Bennett
Joao Neres	Postdoctoral Associate	Aldrich
Riccardo Petrelli	Postdoctoral Associate	Pankiewicz
Abbas Raza	Research Associate	Vince
Rohit Singh	Postdoctoral Associate	Vince/Wang
Michael Staake	Postdoctoral Associate	Patterson
Daniel Wilson	Research Fellow	Aldrich
Jose Yu	Postdoctoral Associate	Pankiewicz
Ding Zhou	Postdoctoral Associate	Patterson

Scientific Advisory Committee

The Scientific Advisory Committee consists of national experts in the area of drug discovery and design, both in academics and industry. They perform an external scientific review of the Center for Drug Design's research activities and programs.

Name	Affiliation
Stephen Benkovic, PhD	The Pennsylvania State University Department of Chemistry Eberly College of Science
Laurence Hurley, PhD	University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Pharmacology And Toxicology
John R. MacDonald, PhD, DABT	MGI Pharma, Inc. Senior VP Research & Development
Garland Marshall, PhD	Washington University School of Medicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Sidney Pestka, MD	The State University of New Jersey-Rutgers Dept. Molecular Genetics, Microbiology & Immunology Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Alex Wlodawer, PhD	National Cancer Institute at Frederick Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory

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