Rudi Fasan (he/him)
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Chemistry
CPRIT Scholar
- 2019-2023 Andrew S. Kende Endowed Chair of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- 2018-2019 Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- 2018-2023 Professor of Oncology, Wilmot Cancer Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
- 2014-2018 Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- 2008-2014 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
- 2005-2008 SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- 2001-2005 Ph.D. (Bioorganic Chemistry) University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1999 B.S. (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) University of Padua, Italy
Francesca Vitali (she/her)
Lab Manager
July 2009 – present
- 2003-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, ETHZ (Zurich, Switzerland); University of California (Irvine, CA); UR Medical Center (Rochester NY); UofR (Rochester, NY)
- 2000-2003 Ph.D. (Bioorganic Chemistry) University of Zurich, Switzerland
- 1999 B.S. (Chemistry) “La Sapienza” University, Rome, Italy
Sumana Karmakar
Lab Technician
November 2023 – May 2024
- Research Technician , UR Medical Center (Rochester NY)
- M.Sc. (Physiology), University of Kalyani, India
- B.Sc. (Physiology), University of Kalyani, India
Postdoctoral fellows
Yen-Chu Lu (he/his)
September 2023 – present
- 2023 Ph.D. (Chemistry), Rice University, Houston, TX
- 2017 M.Sc. (Applied Chemistry), National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Research: Biocatalytic Photoreactions
Jadab Majhi
August 2023 – present
- 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- 2021 Ph.D. (Chemistry), Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- 2015 M.Sc. IIT-Bombay, India
Research: Biocatalytic carbene & nitrene transfer reactions
Satyajit Roy
July 2021 – present
- 2021 Ph.D. Center of Bio-Medical Research (CBMR, Lucknow), India
- 2021 M.Sc. (Chemistry), Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- 2015 M.Sc. University of Kalyani, India
Research: Biocatalytic carbene & nitrene transfer reactions
Zheyuan Wang (he/his)
August 2024 – present
- 2024 Ph.D. (Chemistry) Peking University, China
- 2019 B.S. (Chemistry), Chongqing University, China
Research: P450-mediated chemo-enzymatic synthesis
Graduate Students
Ronald Adukure
- 2020 B.S. ;(Biochemistry & Biotechnology), East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
- Graduate class of 2020
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Pamela Agredo (she/her)
- 2023 M.Sc. University of Rochester, NY
- 2018 M.Sc. Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia
- 2014 B.S. (Biochemistry & Biotechnology), East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
- 2020 B.S. (Biochemistry & Biotechnology), East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
- Graduate class of 2020
Research: Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors
Anwita Chattopadhyay (she/her)
- 2022 B.S. – M.S. (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab, India
- Graduate class of 2022
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Bo Couture (he/his)
- 2021 B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Graduate class of 2021
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Ru Cui (she/her)
- 2017 B.S. (Chemistry), University of Hubei, Wuhan, China
- Graduate class of 2022
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Muhammed Fastheem (he/his)
- 2023 B.S. – M.S. (Chemistry), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
- Graduate class of 2023
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Michelle Hendricks (she/her)
- 2021 B.S. (Biochemistry), Lafayette College, Easton, PA
- Graduate class of 2021
Research: Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors
Andrew Hong (he/his)
- 2019 B.A. (Chemistry), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- Graduate class of 2022, MSTP class of 2020
Research: Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors
Abhijith Saseendran Anit (he/his)
- 2017 M.S. (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
- Graduate class of 2019
Research: Macrocyclic Peptide Inhibitors
Shreya Sharma (she/her)
- 2023 B.S. – M.S. (Biology), National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
- Graduate class of 2023
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Mary Siriboe (she/her)
- 2020 B.S. (Chemistry), Suffolk University,Boston, MA
- Graduate class of 2020
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Juan Villada Morales (he/his)
- 2018 M.S. (Chemistry), Universidad del Valle, Cali
- 2016 B.S. (Chemistry and Pharmacy), Universidad Icesi, Cali
- Graduate class of 2021
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
Yining Wang (he/his)
- 2023 M.S. (Chemistry), Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
- 2019 B.S. (Chemistry), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Graduate class of 2023
Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions