Director
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
Hendrik Luesch Ph.D.
Professor; The Debbie And Sylvia DeSantis Chair In Natural Products Drug Discovery And Development; Director of the Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development
Email:
luesch@ufl.edu
Associate Director for Drug Design
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
Chenglong Li Ph.D.
Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and the Nicholas Bodor Professor in Drug Discovery
Email:
lic@ufl.edu
Associate Director for Synthetic Biology
Email:
dingyous@ufl.edu
Assistant Director
Email:
rratnayake@ufl.edu
Core Directors/Core Leaders
- Microbial Genomics and Synthetic Biology: Yousong Ding, Ph.D. (Core Director), Manyun Chen, Ph.D., M.S. (Core Leader)
- Molecular Diversity and Screening: Ranjala Ratnayake, Ph.D. (Core Leader)
- AI-Based and Structure-Base Structure Based Drug Design & Optimization: Gustavo Seabra, Ph.D. (Core Leader)
- Synthetic Chemistry: Qi-Yin Chen, Ph.D. (Core Leader)
- Targeted Protein Degradation: Guangrong Zheng, Ph.D. (Core Director)
- Botanical Translational Science: Chengguo (CX) Xing, Ph.D. (Core Director)
- PDX Models: : Brian Law, Ph.D. (Core Leader)
- Behavioral Pharmacology: Jenny Wilkerson, Ph.D.
Members
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
- Jane Aldrich, Ph.D.
- Lina Cui, Ph.D.
- Qi-Yin Chen, Ph.D.
- Yousong Ding, Ph.D.
- Robert Huigens III, Ph.D.
- Oliver Grundmann, Ph.D.
- Chenglong Li, Ph.D.
- Yanjun Li, Ph.D.
- Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D.
- Xingui Liu, Ph.D.
- Christopher R. McCurdy, Ph.D.
- Ranjala Ratnayake, Ph.D.
- Gustavo Seabra, PhD.
- Wenjun Xie, Ph.D.
- Chengguo (Chris) Xing, Ph.D.
- Guangrong Zheng, Ph.D.
- Long Dang, M.D., Ph.D., MBA