Faculty Research Foci

Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-624-7997
Research Interest:
Antibiotics, tuberculosis, synthesis, enzymology

Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-2387
Research Interest:
Biological and chemical warfare agent mitigation; BSL-2, BSL-3 and select agent research; Homeland security; High-throughput and fragment screening, lead optimization; Psychiatric pharmacy and neuropharmacology

Smith Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-625-2580
Research Interest:
Chemical biology, infectious disease, bacterial imaging, proteomics, inhibitor development, natural products

Distinguished McKnight Professor & Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-624-0544
Research Interest:
Chemical synthesis, biochemistry, enzymology, drug design, protein prenylation

Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-624-6184
Research Interest:
PPAR modulation, antibacterial discovery, clostridium difficile, medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis

Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-2601
Research Interest:
Quantum mechanics, molecular mechanics/dynamics, computer graphics techniques, molecular interactions, investigation of inter- and intramolecular interactions to gain insight for drug design and protein engineering

Regents Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-6320
Research Interest:
Design, synthesis, and evaluation of synthetic and natural product-derived medicinal agents; drug discovery by HTS; new synthetic methods; combinatorial chemistry. Therapeutic areas: cancer, male contraception, Alzheimer's disease.

Northrop Professor and Margaret Harvey Schering Land Grant Chair for Cancer Research
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-625-8687
Research Interest:
Synthesis, biophysical characterization, and biological efficacy evaluation of novel small molecules that influence cellular function. Applications for these molecules range from anticancer drug discovery to new tools for modern biotechnology research.

Professor & Philip S. Portoghese Endowed Chair in Chemical Neuroscience, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-9262
Research Interest:
Peptide chemistry, small molecule medicinal chemistry, positional scanning combinatorial chemistry and libraries, G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) pharmacology, human receptor polymorphisms, neuroscience, obesity, diabetes, feeding behavior, and pain

Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-625-1891
Research Interest:
Organic synthesis, natural products, analogs and prodrugs, symmetry concepts, organometallic chemistry,NMR spectroscopy

Associate Professor, McKnight Presidential Fellow, McKnight Land Grant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-624-9091
Research Interest:
Inhibitor Discovery, Protein-Protein Interactions, Chemical Biology, Peptidomimetics, Organic Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry

Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-624-9465
Research Interest:
Antibiotic and anti-cancer agents from plant pathogenic fungi

Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-3432
Research Interest:
Development of biomarkers of cancer and aging using mass spectrometry and proteomics. Design, synthesis, and evaluation of small molecule epigenetic inhibitors and protein degraders. Therapeutic areas: cancer, aging, Alzheimer's disease.

Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-626-0141
Research Interest:
Cancer, carcinogens, metabolism, biomarkers, mass spectrometry

Distinguished Teaching Professor & Department Head, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Email:
[email protected]
Office Phone:
612-625-2614
Research Interest:
Chemical Biology, design and development of targeted drug delivery approaches, design and study of chemical inducers of protein oligomerization, mechanistic and structural studies of biocatalyis and protein translation