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