Principal Investigator: Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Student
Joining-Fall 2017
Shang Eun Park (Paul)
Project: TBD
Pharm D. Students
Arthur Avanesov
Captsone project: Developing N-methylated analogs of CN2097
Alexander Nguyen
Captsone project: Developing strong PDZ domain inhibitor
Alexander Delgado
Captsone project: Developing strong PDZ domain inhibitor
Undergraduate Student
Tim Kristedja
Project: 1. Evaluating stability of EDB-Fn peptide analogs. 2. Synthesis of targeted peptide drug conjugate for ovarian cancer.
Masters Student
Akinwale Ajayi David
Project: Design and synthesis of fatty acyl derivatives of [W4R4] peptides
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Shilpi Gupta, SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Scholar
Project: Design and development of potent heterocyclic compounds as Protein Tyrosine Kinase inhibitors.
Dr. Shaban Darwish (Post Doc)
Project: Scale up of CN2097 and synthesis of CN2097 analogs.
Past Members
- Ms. Neda Riahifard, MS
- Dr. N.S. El-Sayed
- Dr. Siva Reddy Kotla
- Dr. Meenakshi Sharma
Undergraduate students
- Matthew Etesham
- Jimmy Clark
- Stephani Buchholz
- Taryn Miyake
- Andrew Shiroishi
- Young Kim
- Harmanpreet Bhatti
- Mohini Bawa
- Atsuhiro Suzuki
- Sarika Chowdhry
- Chrys-Michel Esseau-Thomas
- Perrin Guyer
- Katarina Falero