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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
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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
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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
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Postdoctoral fellows

Dr. Yen-Chu Lu 

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(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 
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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
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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
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Graduate Students

Ronald Adukure

  • B.S. 2020 (Biochemistry & Biotechnology), East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA
  • Graduate class of 2020
  • Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
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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
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Anwita Chattopadhyay

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  • 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
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Bo Couture

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  • B.S. 2021 (Chemistry), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
  • Graduate class of 2021
  • Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
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Ru Cui

(she/her/hers)

  • B.S. 2017 (Chemistry), University of Hubei, Wuhan, China
  • Graduate class of 2022
  • Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
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Muhammed Fastheem

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  • 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
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Michelle Hendricks

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  • B.S. 2021 (Biochemistry), Lafayette College, Easton, PA
  • Graduate class of 2021
  • Research: Peptide macrocycles
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Andrew Hong

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  • B.A. 2019 (Chemistry), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • Graduate class of 2022, MSTP class of 2020
  • Research: Peptide macrocycles
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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
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Shreya Sharma

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  • 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
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Mary Siriboe

(she/her/hers)

  • B.S. 2020 (Chemistry), Suffolk University,Boston, MA
  • Graduate class of 2020
  • Research: Biocatalytic carbene transfer reactions
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Juan Villada Morales

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  • 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
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Yining Wang

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  • 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
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