Department of medicinal chemistry
2023 Award Winners
The department of medicinal chemistry held its annual award ceremony to recognizes the top graduate students on Aug. 9, in the HPNP Atrium. These were the award winners honored at the ceremony.
Award Categories and Winners
Graduate Seminar Awards:
Best Grad Student Seminar Award (Senior Division): Zachary Rabinowitz
Best Grad Student Seminar Award (Junior Division): Emma Ellis, & Meng-Lun Hsieh
Junior Student Awards for Excellence
Yuzhao Zhang
Best Research Student Award
Ke Liu
Best Research Paper Awards
Liu, K.; Abouelhassan, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Jin, S.; Huigens III, R.W.* “Transcript Profiling of Nitroxoline-Treated Biofilms Shows a Rapid Upregulation of Iron Acquisition Gene Clusters.” ACS Infect. Dis. 2022, 8, 1594-1605.
Pohl, M. O.; Martin-Sancho, L.; Ratnayake, R.; White, K. M.; Riva, L.; Chen, Q,-Y.; Lieber, G.; Busnadiego, I.; Yin, X.; Lin, S.; Pu, Y.; Pache, L.; Rosales, R.; Déjosez, M.; Qin, Y.; De Jesus, P. D.; Beall, A.; Yoh, S.; Hale, B. G.; Zwaka, T. P.; Matsunaga, N.; García-Sastre, A.; Stertz, S.; Chanda, S. K.; Luesch, H.* “Sec61 Inhibitor Apratoxin S4 Potently Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 and Exhibits Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity” ACS Infect. Dis. 2022, 8, 1265–1279.
Berthold EC, Kamble SH, Raju KS, Kuntz MA, Senetra AS, Mottinelli M, León F, Restrepo LF, Patel A, Ho NP, Hiranita T, Sharma A, McMahon LR, McCurdy CR.* “The Lack of Contribution of 7-Hydroxymitragynine to the Antinociceptive Effects of Mitragynine in Mice: A Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Study” Drug Metab Dispos. 2022 50(2):158-167.
Bian, T.; Wang, Y.; Botello, J.F.; Hu, Q.; Jiang, Y.; Zingone, A.; Aly, F.Z.; Ding, H.; Wu, Y.; Aly, F. Z.; Saloum, R. G.; Warren, G.; Huo, Z.; Ryan, B.M.; Jin, L.; Xing, C.* “LKB1 phosphorylation and deactivation in lung cancer by NNAL, a metabolite of tobacco-specific carcinogen, in an isomer-dependent manner”, Oncogene, 2022, 41(33): 4042-4054.
T-32 Trainees
Emma Ellis
Training Grant Awardees
Alexis Smith (Team-based Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Training program; TICaRT)
Breanne Freeman (Team-based Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Training program; TICaRT)
Professional Service Award
Zachary Rabinowitz
Breanne Freeman
Jessica Mamallapalli
Margaret James Top Graduating Student Award
Lobna Elsadek