Director
Hendrik Luesch Ph.D.
Professor And Chair, Debbie And Sylvia DeSantis Chair In Natural Products Drug Discovery And Development
Phone:
(352) 273-7738
Email:
luesch@ufl.edu
Associate Director
Chenglong Li Ph.D.
Professor And The Nicholas Bodor Professor In Drug Discovery
Phone:
(352) 294-8510
Email:
lic@ufl.edu
Assistant Director
Ranjala Ratnayake Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
Phone:
(352) 627-9220
Email:
rratnayake@ufl.edu
Core Directors/Core Leaders
- Microbial Genomics and Synthetic Biology: Yousong Ding, Ph.D. (Core Director)
- 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)
- PROTAC & Targeted Therapeutics: Guangrong Zheng, Ph.D. (Core Director)
- Botanical Translational Science: Chengguo (CX) Xing, Ph.D. (Core Director)
- Behavioral Pharmacology: Jenny Wilkerson, Ph.D.
CNPD3 Research Support Staff
- Kalina Rosenova Atanasova
- Taylor Corcorcan
Additional 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.
- Margaret O. James, Ph.D.
- Chenglong Li, Ph.D.
- Hendrik Luesch, Ph.D.
- Christopher R. McCurdy, Ph.D.
- Ranjala Ratnayake, Ph.D.
- Gustavo Seabra, PhD.
- Chengguo (Chris) Xing, Ph.D.
- Guangrong Zheng, Ph.D.
- Long Dang, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Department of Pharmacodynamics
- Lance McMahon, Ph.D., M.S.
- Jay McLaughlin, Ph.D.
- Siobhan Malany, Ph.D.
- Daohong Zhou, Ph.D.
- Jenny Wilkerson, Ph.D.