Principal Investigator
Akif Tezcan
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
2001-2005 – Burroughs-Wellcome and Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
2001 Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
1995 B.A., Macalester College
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Jie Zhu
B.S. Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University
Ph.D. Chemistry, Virginia Tech (Morris Lab)
Dr. Tae Su Choi
B.S. Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Ph.D. Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Kim Lab)
Dr. Nicole Avakyan
B.S. Chemistry, McGill University
Ph.D. Chemistry, McGill University (Sleiman Lab)
Dr. Chung-Jui Yu
B.S. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Chemistry, Northwestern University (Freedman Lab)
Graduate Students
Albert Kakkis
B.A. Chemistry, Pomona College
Hannah Rutledge
B.S. Chemistry, Rice University
Kenneth Han
B.S. Chemical Biology, UC Berkeley
Yiying Li
B.S. Chemistry, Wuhan University
Alex Hoffnagle
B.A. Biochemistry, B.A. Biophysics, M.S. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Iris Zhang
B.S. Chemistry, Zhejiang University
Yui Na
B.S. Pharmacological chemistry, UC San Diego
Vanessa Eng
B.S. Chemistry, University of Portland
Undergraduate Researchers
Robin Yu
Hometown: San Diego
Class of ’22