Organic Chemistry: Current Research

Andes Hess is Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. He received his BA degree with Highest Honors from Williams 1962; MS 1963 and PhD 1966 degrees with Ken Wiberg at Yale University. After a two year NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship with Virgil Boekelheide at the University of Oregon he joined the Chemistry Department at Vanderbilt In 1973. He was awarded a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Fellowship and spent one year with Professor Rudolf Zahradník at the J Heyrovsky Institute Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. This experience led to his extensive collaborations in Central Europe. He was Chair of the Chemistry Department at Vanderbilt from 19821994 His early research was focused on the theory of aromaticity having published a seminal paper in 1971 on the ability of Hückel calculations to predict aromatic character for a wide range of cyclic conjugated carbon and heterocyclic systems. Later his research became centered on computational chemistry and lies primarily in the realm of physical organic chemistry the determination of reaction mechanisms. Most recently he has made significant contributions to the area of the biosynthesis of terpenes in particular the mechanism of the cyclization of squalenes to steroids and hopenes. He has authored or coauthored over 190 scientific papers

Computational chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Determination of reaction mechanisms.

Kazuhiro CHIBA is Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). He received his BA (1981) and MS (1983) degrees at TUAT in Department of Agricultural Chemistry. After a 7 years researcher at an industrial research center, he joined TUAT as assistant professor. He received PhD degree (1991), visited Washington University in St. Louis, USA (Professor K.D. Moeller, 1999-2000), and was promoted to professor in 2004. His experience led to extensive collaborations with universities and industries. His early research was focused on the synthesis and structure elucidation of natural products. Recently, he made important contributions in the explorations of new electrochemical organic reactions and their applications towards biologically active compounds especially in the field of peptides. He has authored or coauthored over 100 scientific papers.

Bio-organic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organic Synthesis, Peptide Chemistry

Kyungsoo Oh graduated from the University of London, UK in 1999 with B.Sc. in Chemistry (First Class) before moving to the University of Sussex to study for his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Philip J. Parson. While at Sussex, he worked on the total synthesis of rapamycin. Following a postdoctoral study with Professor Jeffrey D. Winkler at the University of Pennsylvania, USA he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 2005 and promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2011
 

Development of chemical catalysis
Development of catalytic asymmetric methods to construct heterocyclic compounds
Stereodivergent synthesis of pyrrolidine scaffolds using Cu(I)- and Ag(I)-catalyzed reactions
Natural product synthesis using sulfur heterocycles as a template to control stereoselectivities
Identification of a family of chiral tertiary N-oxides as a reactive oxygen transfer reagent and application towards asymmetric oxidations: epoxidation, sulfoxidation, and oxygenation of ketones
Biological assay and pharmaceutical profile of the compounds
 

Dr. Hong Liu’s efforts mainly dedicate to the research of pharmaceutical chemistry and drug design and discovery. She is also focusing on the development of new organic synthetic methodologies, building focused combinatorial libraries, and the discovery and optimization of lead compounds for new drugs. Dr. Hong Liu has published 170 academic papers in peer-review journals with a total Impact Factor of 549.03, such as Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry and Tetrahedron Letters, etc. Dr. Liu wrote 6 books as chapter author as well and applied 33 patents.

Medicinal Chemistry，Molecular Design

Henry F. Schaefer III received his B.S. degree in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966) and Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from Stanford University (1969). For 18 years (1969-1987) he served as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. During the1979-1980 academic year he was also Wilfred T. Doherty Professor of Chemistry and inaugural Director of the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin. Since 1987 Dr. Schaefer has been Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia. In 2004 he became Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of more than 1300 scientific publications, the majority appearing in the Journal of Chemical Physics or the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

His research involves the use of state-of-the-art computational hardware and theoretical methods to solve important problems in molecular quantum mechanics.
 

Arthur Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. His research program at Georgia Institute of Technology is seeking to understand and exploit innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for nature’s premiere renewable biopolymers for biomaterials, biofuels, biopower, and bio-based chemicals. His research program has/is been sponsored by NSF, USDA, DOE, GA Traditional Industry Program, a consortium of industry partners, and several fellowship programs. His Fulbright sponsored activities at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden were focused on the forest biorefinery and new biofuel conversion technologies for lignocellulosics. Currently, Dr. Ragauskas manages a research group of thirty three graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, a research scientist, and visiting scientists. He has collaborative research projects with several GA Tech faculty and is a program leader for a GA Tech Focused Research Program in Biofuels, BioPower and Biomaterials. In addition, he is the GA Tech team leader for Biological Energy Science Center (BESC) research efforts and team leader for an industrial consortium program titled Black Liquor Hemicellulose Recovery and Utilization.
 

Forest BioRefinery, BioFuels, BioMaterials, BioComposites, Fiber Modification, Nanobioterials, Pulping/Bleaching, Sustainability/Green Chemistry, Chemistry of Natural Biopolymers including Cellulose, Hemicellulose, and Lignin, Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry.

James Schwindeman was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He earned his B. S. degree in chemistry from Miami University and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Ohio State University, under the tutelage of Professor Philip D. Magnus. He started his industrial career as a discovery chemist for PPG Industries. He then moved to FMC Lithium, where he worked in positions of increasing responsibility in Research and Development. In recognition of his research activities with Professor Roderick Quirk at the University of Akron, James received the American Chemical Society Cooperative Research Award in 2000. He then leveraged his technical expertise into a role in business development to help customers succeed. He is currently Director, New Business Development at Archimica, Inc.

Synthesis of biologically active compounds, Utilization of organometallic chemistry in organic synthesis, Process optimization and Green chemistry.
 

Richard McCullough was appointed vice president for research at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2007. In this new senior leadership position, McCullough will nurture interdisciplinary research initiatives and oversee sponsored research, technology commercialization and a number of cross-college research centers. Prior to this position he served as the dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1990 as an assistant professor and quickly rose through the tenure ranks, being promoted to associate professor in 1995 and professor in 1998. In 1998 he assumed the role of department head of chemistry. He was appointed dean of the Mellon College of Science in 2001.
On September 3, 2010, Rick was honored with the Thomas Lord Professorship in Chemistry.
McCullough is internationally known as the world′s expert in the area of printable electronics and is well-known for his discovery of regioregular polythiophenes- a material that led to plastic solar cells and plastic transistors.  His research focuses on the design and understanding of the structure-property relationships in conducting materials and nanoelectronics.  
 

Dr. McCullough is internationally known as the world′s expert in the area of printable electronics. Plextronics has received numerous honors, among them being named the 2008 Going Green Top 100 company and a Wall Street Journal Technology Award runner-up. In his 21 years at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. McCullough has been The Department Head of Chemistry and the Dean of Science before becoming Vice President for Research in 2007. Dr. McCullough has recently been named Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Dr. Dieter professor received his BA 1973 from Lehigh University and his PhD 1978 from the University of Pennsylvania working in synthesis synthetic methods and photochemistry with Professor Amos B Smith III. He was an American Chemical Society Postdoctoral Fellow 19781979 with Professor Jerrold Meinwald at Cornell in natural products chemistry. He served on the faculty at Boston University before joining Clemson in 1985.

Asymmetric Synthesis, Synthetic methodology and reaction mechanisms, Natural Products-isolation and synthesis, Organocopper and organosulfur chemistry.

Dr. Madeleine M. Joullie is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and the District III director of the American Chemical Society ACS. She joined the University of Pennsylvanias faculty as its first female instructor in 1953 and have been a full professor since 1974. The recognitions she received in the scientific field include: ACS Philadelphia Section Award, ACS Garvan Medal Scroll Award from American Institute of Chemists, Faculty Award from American Cynamid Lindback, Award for Distinguished Teaching Second Annual Association of American Women in SciencePhiladelphia, Chapter Award Philadelphia Organic Chemistry Club Award, ACS Henry Hill Award, ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and ACS Author Cope Scholar Award. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Science as well as a member of Sigma Xi Sigma Delta Epsilon and the American Chemical Society. She was recently awarded the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry 2009 Edward Leete Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Research in Organic Chemistry. That same year she was elected to the 2009 Class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.

Heterocyclic chemistry, Medicinal chemistry and The Synthesis of Natural Products.

Steven Kass was born and raised in New York He went to Vassar College where he earned an AB degree with general and departmental honors Graduate studies at Yale University with Professor Kenneth Wiberg led to MS MPhil and PhD degrees along with the Wolfgang Prize in 1984 Postdoctoral studies at the University of Colorado ndash; Boulder with Professors G Barney Ellison and Charles H DePuy from 19841986 were followed by his appointment to the faculty in the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota where he rose through the ranks to Professor of Chemistry Awards include a University of Minnesota McKnight LandGrant Assistant Professorship and appointments as an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellow a visiting fellow at Australia National University and the University of New South Wales and a Minnesota Supercomputer Institute Fellow

Physical Organic Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry
The effects of extended hydrogen bond arrays

R. Daniel Little was born and raised in Superior, Wisconsin. He attended Wisconsin State University – Superior, now a branch of the University of Wisconsin, where he majored in mathematics and chemistry. After spending two summers performing undergraduate research at the University of South Dakota and one semester studying at Argonne National Laboratory, Dan entered graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. There he studied with Howard Zimmerman. Following graduation, he moved to Yale to begin postdoctoral studies with Jerome Berson. Those studies completed, he took a job as an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), rose through the ranks and became a full professor in 1986. He has served as Department Vice-Chair and Chair and has been a visiting scientist at the University of British Columbia. Current research interests focus upon green and sustainable chemistry.

His major research interest is on mediated, electrocatalytic, electron transfer processes, and upon obtaining an understanding of the fundamental nature of the reactive intermediates produced in this manner, as well as their chemical transformations, Green Chemistry, Redox Chemistry of Fulvenes, Pseudopterosin Class of Marine Natural Products.

Alex D. Q. Li received his B. S. in polymer chemistry from Jilin University (China) and Ph. D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Northwestern University (USA).  After graduation, he was honored with a postdoctoral director fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he later became a Technical Staff Member.  At Los Alamos, he led a research group working on chemistry of materials and microsensors for volatile organic compounds, which received R&D 100 award in 1995.  Inspired by teaching and innovative research, Dr. Li joined the faculty at Washington State University in 2000, where he initiated his research on foldamers and later received the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator (BYI) award.  The philosophy in his group is to use novel methods to construct advanced materials, with an emphasis on molecular design and innovative approaches to demonstrate new concepts, principles, and applications in the chemical, physical, and biological sciences.
 

Macromolecular design and engineering
Advanced materials synthesis
Biofunction and nanotechnology integration
Molecular self-assembly
 

Brian Frink earned his BS in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 1993. While there he worked on the synthesis of analogs of annonaceous acetogenins under the tutelage of Dr. Thomas R. Hoye. Brian earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1999. There he pursued his interest in organic reaction mechanisms and structure-activity relationships while working for Dr. Christopher M. Hadad. This interest has continued while teaching at Lakeland College in Shebygan, Wisconsin, where he currently is an Associate Professor and has been employed since 1999.
 

Physical organic chemistry, especially mechanisms, kinetics, and structure activity relationships.

Dr. Scott T Handy is currently an associate professor of chemistry at Middle Tennessee State University MTSU. He received his BS from the University of Iowa in 1991 and a Ph.D from Indiana University at Bloomington in 1996 under the direction of Professor Paul Grieco. He completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University under the direction of Professor Paul Wender. His first academic appointment was at Binghamton University before moving to MTSU in 2005

Dr. Handy′s research has been largely focused in three areas, the continuing development of the intramolecular hydrodimerzation reaction, the use of room temperature ionic liquids as solvents and recyclable supports for Organic synthesis, and the synthesis of polysubstituted heteroaromatics via one pot, regioselective polycouplings on polyhaloheteroaromatics

Mo Hunsen is an associate professor of chemistry at Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio He received a PhD degree in Organic Chemistry from Michigan State University in 2001 and subsequently joined the Chemistry Department at Kenyon College He was a visiting scientist at Polytechnic Institute of New York University 2005 and visiting scientist at CASE Comprehensive Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University 2006 2008 He was a DAAD Fellow 19901993 and has won the Robert J Tomsich Science Award 2005 and the Henry Dreyfus TeacherScholar Award 2007 His research interests focuses on chemical and enzymatic catalysis in carbohydrate and polymer chemistry He also works in green chemistry and in natural product based cancer prevention and therapeutics

Isolation, synthesis, and biological activity study of natural products for prevention and therapeutics of cancer. Green Chemistry(Enzyme and Chemical Catalysis, Green Oxidation Reactions, Carbohydrate chemistry)

Wenfang Sun is the Walter F. and Verna Gehrts Professor at the North Dakota State University (NDSU). She is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at NDSU. She received her B.S. degree from the Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University in China in 1990 and her Ph. D. degree from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. She became an Assistant Professor in this institute in 1995 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1996. She moved to the Department of Physics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1997 as a Research Associate and was promoted to a Research Assistant Professor in 1999. In 2001, she joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the North Dakota State University as an Assistant Professor. In 2007, she was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenured. In 2011, she was promoted to Full Professor and became the Gehrts Endowed Professor. She received the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the “NDSU Bison Ambassadors Apple Polisher Award” and the “NDSU College of Science and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Research”, the “Outstanding Visiting Scholar Award” at UAB, the “YILIDA Prize” and “Presidential Award” from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has published 70 journal papers since 1993 and 19 conference proceeding full papers. She has been a reviewer for over 20 journals.

Organic/organometallic nonlinear optical materials, Organic/organometallic light emitting materials, Photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy, Optical sensors.
 

Appointed Director of Research for the School of Chemistry
Promoted to a Personal Chair in Chemical Biology
Moved laboratories to the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB).
Transferred to the School of Chemistry at The University of Manchester.
Promoted to Reader in Biological Chemistry UMIST
Promoted to Senior Lecturer in Biological Chemistry UMIST
Promoted to Lecturer Grade B UMIST
Lecturer in Biological Chemistry (Grade A), The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). JM was recruited by UMIST to promote collaboration in research and teaching between Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences as part of a longer-term commitment to the expansion of Life Sciences.
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry (Grade A),  Birkbeck College, University of London.
 

Organic Chemistry

After studying Chemistry at the University of Dortmund, Lothar Brecker earned his diploma in chemistry in 1993 with a thesis in Organic Chemistry. His dissertation under the supervision of Prof. W. Kreiser at University of Dortmund was supported by a PhD stipendium of the country North Rhine-Westphalia. It deals with synthetic natural product chemistry and finished 1996. For postdoctoral work Brecker went to Graz University of Technology in 1997, where he was working in the area of in situ NMR of biocatalyzed reactions. In 2000 he moved to the Research Center Borstel. There he was active on structural analysis of biomolecules. In 2002 Brecker went to University of Vienna, where he developed his group, which is active on NMR Spectroscopic research in Organic Chemistry. In 2007 he got his habilitation and in 2009 he took over the position as deputy head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. Since 2011 he is also deputy director of the Study Program Chemistry.

In situ NMR of biocatalyzed reactions
Enzyme-substrate binding und mechanisms of enzyme catalysed reactions
Structure determination of natural products and lipids from cell walls
 

Stefan Brase studied in Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille and received his Ph.D. in 1995, after working with Armin de Meijere in Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University (Jan E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the RWTH Aachen in 1997 (associated to Dieter Enders). In 2001, he finished his Habilitation and moved to the University of Bonn as professor for organic chemistry. Since 2003, he is full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - in Germany.

His research interests include methods in drug-discovery (including drug-delivery), combinatorial chemistry towards the synthesis of biologically active compounds, total synthesis of natural products and nanotechnology.

Hicham Fenniri is the Director of the SupramolecularNanoscale Assembly program at the NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology (Canada’s Government Laboratory), and is Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Dr. Fenniri has achieved international recognition as a leader in the areas nanomedicine, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, and materials sciences. His groupworks at the forefront of basic and applied nanosciences, in collaboration with various academic institutions, federal laboratories, and with the private sector.Dr. Fenniri’s contributions appeared in over 130 publications, 8 patents, and over 320 contributed national and international conference papers. Dr. Fenniri’s work was also presented in over 130 invited distinguished lectures, colloquiaand seminars around the globe. His research programs are supported by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, the US National Institutes of Health, The National Research Council of Canada, the University of Alberta, and several private, provincial and federal funding organizations.

Dr. Fenniri′s research is at the interface of supramolecular and dynamic chemistry with the aim of developing self-assembled, complex supramolecular structures with programmable properties.

Dr. Satomi Niwayama has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Texas Tech University since 2004 She received her PhD from the University of Tokyo Japan in synthetic organic chemistry in 1989 After completing postdoctoral appointments at The Ohio State University University of California at Los Angeles and Massachusetts Institute of Technology she assumed a position of Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University in 1998 The awards she has received include the Morita Science Research Promotion Award 2000 the Banyu Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry 2002 the National Science FoundationCAREER Award 2003 the Japanese Society for Process Chemistry Award for Excellence 2006 and the American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award 2007 She was a Visiting Professor at Yokohama National University Japan in 2008 and 2010 She has also been an editorial board member for two other journals Current Organic Synthesis and The Open Natural Products Journal.

Dr. Niwayama’s research interests pertain mainly to the development of environmentally benign organic reactions and synthetic methodologies, as well as bioorganic chemistry applying small organic molecules to solving biological problems.

Her research is focused on dissecting the roles of kinases and G Proteins in cancer and neurodegeneration using chemical and genetic approaches. She has recently developed a chemical genetic approach for specific activation or inhibition of engineered G proteins using orthogonal small molecules. Another research area in his laboratory focuses on Aurora A kinase, which is overexpressed in several types of cancers. She has identified several oncogenic targets of Aurora A kinase in breast, prostate and ovarian cancer cells. The goal is validate these targets for developing targeted therapies, and diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for cancer progression. She is also interested in elucidating the pathogenic mechanisms that lead to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer′s Disease.

Venkata Sai Prakash Chaturvedula did his BS from Nagarjuna University and obtained Gold Medal to stood First in Chemistry from ANR College. In 1987 Dr. Chaturvedula completed his MS from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India and stood University First in Organic Chemistry and honored with several prestigious awards. Dr Chaturvedula did his Ph.D. in Natural Product Chemistry (isolation and characterization of bioactive secondary metabolites) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India. Afterwards, he worked for more than six years in various pharmaceutical industries in India as Research Associate, Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist/Head of Natural Products Chemistry Department at Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, New Delhi; Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited, Ahmedabad and Natco Pharmaceuticals Limited, Hyderabad respectively. During his industrial research, Dr Chaturvedula worked in the fields of Natural Products Chemistry as well as Synthetic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Process Development studies. In March 1999, Dr Chaturvedula joined at the Institute of Marine Resources at National Sun-yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan as Visiting Scientist and worked for about two years on the isolation of active secondary metabolites (extraction, fractionation, purification, structure elucidation, etc) using bioassay-guided methodology of medicinal plants and marine organisms of Taiwan origin. In 2001, Dr Chaturvedula joined as Research Scientist in Dr. David G. I. Kingston’s group at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA and worked on the projects funded by ICBG (International Cooperative Biodiversity Group), NCDDG (National Cooperative Drug Discovery Group) and NIH (National Institutes of Health) involved in the isolation of active natural products by bioassay-guided fractionation from plants and marine organisms. In August 2004, Dr Chaturvedula joined at SelectX Pharmaceuticals and held various positions from Senior Staff Scientist to Senior Director-Natural Products Chemistry by working in the Drug Discovery Research programs of infectious diseases (both isolation and synthesis). Currently, Dr Chaturvedula is working as Technical Expert in the Organic Chemistry Department of the Research and Technology at The Coca-Cola Company, located at Atlanta, USA. Published over 50 publications and presented more than 30 papers in various conferences.
                        
 

His Research interests are in isolation, structure elucidation and synthesis of biologically active natural products from both plant and marine origin of potentially important therapeutic areas. Also interested in synthetic methodology; design, synthesis and process development of Organic Compounds.
 

Hiromasa Kiyota b 1966 in Sendai Japan Associate Professor of Biooganic Chemistry at Tohoku University Japan BS 1989 soil science Prof Hidenori Wada MS 1991 and Ph D 1995 organic chemistry Prof Kenji Mori and Associate Prof Takeshi Kitahara from the University of Tokyo Assistant Professor 1991 Prof K Moris Lab and Prof Takayuki Oritanis Lab 1994 Associate Professor Prof Shigefumi Kuwahara in 2002 Visiting Academic 20012002Prof Steven V Ley at Cambridge University UK The Japan Bioscience Biotechnology and Agrochemistry Society Award for the Encouragement of Young Scientists 2003 His research interests extend over a wide range of natural product chemistry especially on the synthesis of biologically active compounds such as antibiotics phytotoxins plant hormones insect pheromones marine products perfumery etc

His research interests extend over a wide range of natural product chemistry, especially on the synthesis of biologically active compounds such as antibiotics, phytotoxins, plant hormones, insect pheromones, marine products, perfumery etc.

Xiangeng Meng obtained his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2008.  He was then awarded fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Global COE program from Kyoto University, respectively. He is currently a research fellow at Kyoto University with research interest in photonic materials covering bulk and nano systems related to metallic nanostructures.  He has been a reviewer of 6 journals.
 

Photonic materials covering bulk and nano systems related to metallic nanostructures.
 

Daesung Chong was born in born in Chongup, Korea, in 1971 and received his B.S. from Kyonggi University, Korea, (1996) and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Sogang University (with C. S. Chin, 1998 and 2001) and did postdoctoral work at the Texas A&M University at College Station with Marcetta Y. Darensbourg and at the University of Vermont with William E. Geiger before joining the Electrochemistry researcher at Dow Corning Corporation in 2008. In 2010 he moved to the Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. His main interest has been in the use of electrochemistry in analysis, synthesis and catalysis.

His current research activity is to develop organic and inorganic synthetic methods under mild conditions with an electron that facilitate the efficient preparation of homogeneous (C-C) and heterogeneous (C-Si) coupling products from trivial and unactivated starting materials.

Dr. Sadanaman E. Velu has received his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of Madras in 1993.  He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Alabama and at Clemson University. Currently,  he is working as a Tenured Associate Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also holds co-appointments as an Associate Scientist in Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has successfully administered several research projects as PI/co-PI and has authored/co-authored 38 research articles. In addition, he is an inventor/co-inventor of 5 US patents. He is a member of American Chemical Society, American Association of Cancer Research and American Heart Association. He teaches Organic and Medicinal Chemistry classes in the University. His Organic Chemistry course was honored as an example of ‘Best Practices’ in a national study of Organic Chemistry courses conducted by the Center for Educational Policy Research on behalf of the College Board in 2006

Organic/Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery and Development, Anti-cancer and Anti-infective Agents, Structure Based Drug Design, Fragment based Drug Discovery, In-Silico Virtual Screening, Structure Activity Relationship studies, Lead Optimization, Solution Phase Parallel Synthesis, Synthesis of Marine Natural Products and their Analogs, Development of Synthetic Methods.

Dr. Wing-Tak Wong obtained his B.Sc. in 1986 and M.Phil in 1988 from The University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship to study his Ph.D. in Cambridge University, UK. He returned to The University of Hong Kong as a lecturer in the Chemistry Department in 1991, was promoted to senior lecturer in 1998, to Professor in 2000 and to Chair Professor in 2005. In 2009, He was invited to join The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to head the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology.

His major research interest includes Metal cluster chemistry, X-ray crystallography, Lanthanide chemistry, Nanomaterials and Bio-imaging.

Dr. Hussein holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia.  Dr. Hussein has strong experience in the synthesis, surface modification, and characterisation of carbon nanotubes. He is a principal investigator of many research projects. He has managed to publish over 110 scientific articles, two book chapters, two patents and given talks in invited seminars. Dr. Hussein has received more than 50 national and international awards. In 2005, Dr. Hussein was awarded a Gold Medal for the project “Production of Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrogen” at the 33rd International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products held in Geneva, Switzerland.  In the same exhibition, he received a special prize in the field of carbon nanotubes from The Technical Culture-Croatia. For his current research interest, Dr. Hussein was awarded a Gold Medal and “The World Invention Award” for the project entitled “Development of New Synthetic Composite for Injectable Bone Replacement Material” at the British Inventors Society/ The 9th British Invention Show/ 13 – 16th October 2009 in Alexandra Palace, London. Recently, Dr. Hussein was also awarded a Gold Medal for the project entitled “Synthesis of Novel 3D Scaffold for Human Skin Cells Cultivation: An Advance in Skin Trade” at the British Inventors Society/ The 11th British Invention Show/ 19 – 22nd October 2011 in Old Spitalfields Market E1. Dr. Hussein has established a vivid international research group that now focuses on injectable bone replacement materials. Currently, he is an editor for 10 international journals and nominated as Guest Editor for two international journals. He is also grant assessor and reviews articles for 24 different journals.

Bone replacement materials especially calcium phosphate cements with nanomaterials.
 

Professor Kian Ping Loh obtained his D.Phil from University of Oxford (supervisor: Prof John S. Food) in 1996 and worked in NIMS, Japan between 1997 and 1998 (supervisor Dr Toshihiro Ando). Both his doctoral and post-doctoral work concerned the surface chemistry of diamond, an area which he has worked for some time. From 1999 to now, he is based in the National University of Singapore and leads the effort in functional carbon materials research.  He has an established track record on functional carbon materials research, focusing on the surface functionalization, biosensing, solar and optical applications of diamond and graphene. The expertise of his group ranges from optical studies of advanced functional carbon materials, design and synthesis of organic dyes, molecular electronics to solar cells and surface science. The expertise in his group now includes the large area fabrication of graphene films by CVD, synthesis of solution-processed and printable graphene electronics, synthesis of organic dye-derivatized graphene, graphene-titania composites, with a view towards applications in solar cells. Breakthroughs in his research include the fabrication of organic solar cell on transparent and conducting, large area graphene electrodes, and the first demonstration of wide band mode locking on atomic layer graphene. He has won the Faculty Young Scientist award in 2007, University Young Researcher award in 2008, Oustanding Chemist award in 2009 and the Singapore Millenium Foundation-Research Horizon award in 2010 and the Dean’s Chair Professorship in 2010.
 

His current research interests include the study of Graphene oxide as Organocatalysts, Organic functionalization of graphene, Synthesis of organic dyes, and Fabrication of organic solar cell.

 

Marco Conte is a research associate at Cardiff Catalysis Institute UK in the area of heterogeneous catalysis Research associate in physical organic chemistry University of York UK 2006-2009 He received Ph.D. from Cardiff UniversityUK in physical chemistry and catalysis 2003-2006 Analytical chemist Zambon Group SpA Italy 2001-2002. He is reviewer of 5 journals

Marco Conte research interests are focused in the field of heterogeneous catalysis with particular emphasis on the chemistry of supported and unsupported metal nanoparticles and metal oxides, involving catalyst preparation, characterization and investigation of reaction mechanisms. This involves the study of multiphase oxidation, hydrochlorination and halogen abstraction reactions, making use of spectroscopic tools such as: electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), in situ UV-Vis, in situ DRIFT and in situ X-ray powder diffraction. This also includes the identification of reaction intermediates and reaction mechanisms by labelled isotope studies and EPR spin trapping methods.

Dr. Rudi Fasan received his BS in Chemistry from University of Padua (Italy). In 2005, he earned his PhD in Organic Chemistry working with Prof. J.A. Robinson at University of Zurich (Switzerland) on synthesis of beta-hairpin protein epitope mimetics. After a postdoctoral experience with Prof. F.H. Arnold at California Institute of Technology working in the area of P450 engineering and enzyme directed evolution, he joined the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. His awards include Swiss National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2001-2005), SNF Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2006), Friedrich-Weygand Outstanding Research Award (2007), and Provost Multidisciplinary Award (2011). He is member of the American Chemical Society and he serves as reviewer for six journals. Dr. Fasan’s research interests lie in the area of bioorganic chemistry, chemical biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis, and chemoenzymatic synthesis. His research currently focuses on the synthesis, molecular evolution, and exploration of macrocyclic organo-peptide structures for modulation of protein-protein interactions and asymmetric catalysis and the development of P450-centered protein engineering and chemo-enzymatic strategies for selective functionalization of aliphatic CH bonds.

Chemical biology, protein engineering, biocatalysis, and chemoenzymatic synthesis. His research currently focuses on the synthesis, molecular evolution, and exploration of macrocyclic organo-peptide structures for modulation of protein-protein interactions and asymmetric catalysis and the development of P450-centered protein engineering and chemo-enzymatic strategies for selective functionalization of aliphatic CH bonds.

Dr. Tulay A. Atesin received her Ph. D. in 2007 from the University of Rochester under the supervision of Professor William D. Jones working on the mechanisms of strong bond activation reactions. She worked on Nazarov cyclization with Professor Alison J. Frontier during her M. S. She was a postdoctoral research associate with Professors Shannon S. Stahl, Charles P. Casey and Clark R. Landis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, she moved to Northwestern University to work with Professors Thomas J. Meade and Mark A. Ratner. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate with Professors SonBinh T. Nguyen and Joseph T. Hupp, working on the synthesis and characterization of novel coordination polymers and metal organic frameworks. She is a member of the American Chemical Society and serves as reviewer for JACS. She received a 2008 Young Investigator Award from the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.


 

Organic reaction mechanisms
Strong bond (C-C, C-H, C-S) activations
Physical organic chemistry
Organometallics
Inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry
Computational chemistry
Material science

Raewyn Poulsen is currently based at the University of Oxford, UK. Raewyn Poulsen  research involves studying the effects of glucocorticoids, as well as oxidative and nutrient-derived stress, on musculoskeletal tissues and determining the role of these factors in the pathogenesis of musculoskeletal disease. Her previous research, whilst based at Massey University in New Zealand, involved studying the interactions between omega- 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and oestrogens particularly in relation to the maintenance of bone mass following ovariectomy. She is broadly interested in the influence of nutrient status on the functioning of normal cellular stress response pathways and how impaired nutrient status, or impaired signalling of nutrient status, can lead to musculoskeletal disease.

The influence of nutrient status on the functioning of normal cellular stress response pathways and how impaired nutrient status, or impaired signalling of nutrient status, can lead to musculoskeletal disease.

Justin Walensky was born in Albany, New York in February 1982. He obtained his B.A. Chemistry from New College of Florida in 2005 where he conducted undergraduate research with Suzanne Sherman and also took part in the Nuclear Science Internship Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working with Annie Kersting. His Ph.D. research was done under the mentoring of William Evans at the University of California, Irvine on synthesizing organometallic f element complexes. Justin then moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Glenn T. Seaborg Fellow to work with Richard Martin and then followed this with postdoctoral research with Michael Hall, Oleg Ozerov, and John Fackler at Texas A&M University.  In 2011, he started as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
 

His lab focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopy of transition metal and actinide complexes to explore their structure, bonding, and reactivity.  They employ various organic ligands in order to study metal-ligand bonding in actinide complexes for applications in separations, tracking of nuclear material, and elucidation of valence orbital participation. Other interests include O2 functionalization as it relates to biological systems and peroxide formation in nuclear waste streams.
 

Dr. Zibo Li is currently an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Southern California. Dr. Li received a PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in 2006. Afterwards, he did his post-doctoral research at the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford with Dr. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, after which he joined the Siemens Molecular Imaging and Biomarker Research (MIBR) at Culver City as a Senior Scientist. In 2008, Dr. Li became a faculty in USC.

Dr. Li′s research interests focus on the development of novel tracers (peptides, proteins, growth factors, antibodies, and antibody fragments-based) for near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence, MRI, SPECT, and PET imaging of small animal tumor xenografts and, potentially, of cancer patients. Another area of Dr. Li′s research is in novel radio-labeling method development and nanomedicine.

Ratmir Derda is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Alberta; he is a member of Alberta Glycomics Centre and SENTINEL Bioactive paper network. Ratmir received his B.Sci. in Physics and Biophysics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2001 and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, under the supervision of Laura L. Kiessling. From 2008 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University working under the supervision of George M. Whitesides at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Donald E. Ingber, at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His notable awards include Canadian Rising Star in Global Health award from Grand Challenges Canada (2011), National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Award in Synthetic Biology (2010), ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research (2007) and Gold Medal at the XXIX International Chemistry Olympiad (1997).
 

Fundamental research with translational efforts
Self-organization and Signal amplification

 

Dr. Li Cai is from the Ohio State University, Dr. Peng George Wang′s research associate. Presently he is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University of South Carolina Salkehatchie. He got his Ph.D. in Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry from the Ohio State University and his M.S. and B.S. from Peking University in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science.

Organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry
Carbohydrate and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
 

Rongsheng Wang received his B.Sc from Nanjing University, P. R. China, in 2005. He then obtained his Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry in 2010, from the department of chemistry, Washington University, USA, where he worked with Professor John-Stephen Taylor and Professor Clayton Hunt to develop inhibitors of heat shock protein 70s for cancer therapy. He did extensive studies on derivatives of natural product quercetin and tried to elucidate its inhibition mechanisms by developing the biotin-tagged quercetin for proteomic studies. To suppress the promoter activity of heat shock protein, he also studied the distamycin-based polyamide approach. He recently joined Mediomics as a scientist, where he is mainly enrolled in development of biosensors, imaging probes as well as innovative methods for selecting aptamers.

Medicinal chemistry
Bioorganic chemistry
Nucleic acid chemistry
Peptide/protein bioconjugation
Enzyme mechanisms
Chemical biology

Dr. Jiantao Guo earned both of his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry from Nankai University. He did doctoral work in bioorganic chemistry in the lab of Prof. John W. Frost at the Michigan State University. After his postdoctoral studies with Prof. Peter Schultz at the Scripps Research Institute, he joined the faculty of chemistry at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Reflecting broad interests at the interface of chemistry and biology, his research focuses on the study, modulation, engineering, and synthesis of a range of biologically important molecules including proteins, natural products, and artificial molecules. He is particularly interested in the elucidation of molecular mechanisms that are used by living organisms to achieve essential chemical transformations. 
Specific areas being explored include:
Protein posttranslational modification;
Natural product biosynthesis;
Small-molecule modulators of protein-protein interaction; and
Chemo-biocatalytic syntheses.

Dr. Chao Jiang received his BS and MS in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 2004. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry from University of Rochester in 2009 with Prof. Alison J. Frontier. His Ph.D. research involved the methodology development towards stereoselective pyrrolidine synthesis using heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation and total synthesis of Tetrapetalone A. Then he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. M. Christina White′s group since then. His projects involve the collaboration with Pfizer Inc. and focus on the application of C-H activation/oxidation methods to medicinal interesting targets which would allow high-speed synthesis for drug discovery and screening. The goal is to solve the difficulty in applying the C-H oxidation chemistry in N-containing compounds such as peptides, alkaloids, heterocycles.

His research interests focus on synthetic methodology development, total synthesis of natural product, heterocyclic and peptide chemistry,  heterogeneous catalysis, metal-catalyzed reactions, C-H activation/oxidation.
 

Wenshe R. Liu did his undergraduate study at Peking University and graduate work with Dr. Michael D. Toney at University of California-Davis, where he was trained in protein crystallography and enzymology. After receiving Ph.D. in 2005, he spent two years in Dr. Peter. G. Schultz’s group at the Scripps Research Institute as a postdoctoral researcher working on the genetic incorporation of unnatural amino acids into bacterial and mammalian cells. In 2007, he started his independent research group at Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry.
 

His research interest is to design methods for the genetic incorporation of noncanonical amino acids into proteins in living cells and apply these methods in three major directions: deciphering functions of protein posttranslational modifications, small molecule sensing, and expanding chemical diversities of phage display libraries.
 

Han Zuilhof is Chair of Organic Chemistry at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, and is an expert on Organic Surface Chemistry.  His research concentrates on making new bio-active molecules and novel methodologies for the covalent attachment of such bio-active molecules to surfaces, the characterization of thus modified surfaces by a variety of surface-sensitive techniques, and the application thereof towards specifically biologically relevant topics.  With a background in originally physical organic chemistry, his current research group (typically 35+ FTE) focuses on fundamental and applicable topics in organic surface chemistry and a range of biological sciences, including a range of improved diagnostics techniques.  He has published > 150 peer-reviewed papers, 8 patents, and is co-founder of a company that focuses on application and valorization of surface functionalization, SurfiX.

Organic materials, Organic photovoltaics, and Self-assembled monolayers.

Dr. Liang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of New Mexico. He obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry from National Taiwan University and M.S. in Organic Chemistry from National Chiao-Tung University under the supervision of Dr. Tse-Lok Ho. He got his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, in Dr. Chi-Huey Wong’s group and did a postdoctoral research in Dr. Gerald Crabtree’s lab at Stanford Medical School before he joined the faculty of the University of New Mexico in 2012.

Dr. Liang’s research interests involve applying the concepts of controlling proximity to develop novel interdisciplinary tools for miRNA regulation, protein engineering and synaptic remodeling.

Dr. Shivaputra Patil is a Research Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences Department at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis (2010 to present). He received the Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Karnatak University, Dharwad (India). He was recipient of senior research fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. He worked on NIH funded grants for his post doctoral research at City college of CUNY, New York and UTHSC, Memphis. He also worked as Adjunct faculty at University of Memphis, Memphis (2006-2007). He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS) since 2002. He is broadly interested in developing anticancer agents through his research.

Design and Synthesis of novel anti-cancer agents for various cancers including glioma (brain cancer). His research also involves in finding the new inhibitors for HIV1 Integrase enzyme which plays essential role in the life cycle of the HIV. He is interested in identifying the new activators of large conductance calcium activated (BKCa) channel for treating hypertension. His other research includes the discovery of novel selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) for anabolic therapies.

He is currently a visiting assistant professor (organic chemistry) at Bard College, Annadale on Hudson, NY. He completed my BS/MS integrated in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India in the year 2002. He joined Iowa State University to pursue a doctoral degree in organic chemistry under the guidance of Professor Richard C. Larock. During his Ph.D. he worked on palladium migration, electrophilic cyclization for the synthesis of heterocylic compounds and cationic poylmerization. Thereafter, he joined NewLink Genetics as a post-doctoral fellow where he worked on development and synthesis of small-molecule inhibitors for tryptophan catabolizing enzyme, indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) and its structure and activity relationship (SAR). IDO inhibitors may offer a drug-based strategy to more effectively attack systemic cancer. His keen interest in academia motivated him to join Northwestern University in the upcoming area of the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks and porous organic frameworks for hydrogen storage, heterogeneous catalysis and heavy metal separation.

Development of new synthetic methods and their application toward the synthesis of novel materials and small molecules of biological interest, methodology development, heterocyclic chemistry. Medicinal chemistry, polymer chemistry, design and synthesis of porous organic polymers (POPs) and metal organic frameworks (MOFs).


 

Anton V. Dolzhenko received his degree in Pharmacy (First Honours with Distinction) in 2000 and then Ph.D. degree in Medicinal Chemistry in 2004, both from the Perm State Pharmaceutical Academy (Russia). After working at the Pharmacy Department of the National University of Singapore for 6 years, in 2010 he joined the School of Pharmacy, Curtin University (Australia) as Lecturer and then was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. His current research interests include synthetic and structural aspects of chemistry of nitrogen heterocycles. He has been actively working on the development of new synthetic methods for the preparation of potentially bioactive compounds.

Medicinal chemistry
Heterocyclic chemistry
Organic synthesis
Green chemistry
Microwave-assisted organic synthesis
Structural and physical organic chemistry
 

Vladimir Ya. Lee was born in Russian Federation. He received MSc degree in chemistry from the Far–Eastern State University (Vladivostok) in 1982 and PhD degree in organic chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow) in 1987. After a couple of post-doctoral stays at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, Korea) in 1996 and at the Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) in 1997, he is working at the University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba, Japan), where he is currently holding an assistant professor/lecturer position. He has been visiting professor at the several universities in Germany, France and Japan. He has authored and co-authored over 100 papers in the peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters, and a monograph “Organometallic Compounds of Low-Coordinate Si, Ge, Sn and Pb: From Phantom Species to Stable Compounds” published by Wiley in 2010.

Low-coordinate derivatives of the main group elements: carbene analogues, cations, free radicals, anions, multiply bonded derivatives, highly strained small rings, as well as their transition metal complexes.

Professor Shuli You was born in Henan, China (1975), and received his BSc in chemistry from Nankai University (1996). He obtained his PhD from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2001 (Advisor: Prof. Lixin Dai) before doing postdoctoral studies with Prof. Jeffery W. Kelly at the Scripps Research Institute. From 2004, he worked at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation as a Principal Investigator before returning to SIOC in 2006. Prof You has published over 90 papers. Prof. You is the recipient of CAPA Distinguished Faculty Award (2008), the CCS Young Chemist Award (2008), Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (2010), The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2010), The Third CCS-RSC Young Chemist Award (2011), and AstraZeneca Excellence in Chemistry Award (2011). Prof You’s research interests mainly focus on enantioselective direct C-H bond functionalization and catalytic asymmetric dearomatization reaction.

Prof. You’s research interests mainly focus on enantioselective direct C-H bond functionalization and catalytic asymmetric dearomatization reaction.

Jianwei Han received his Master Degree at East China University of Science and Technology under the mentorship of Professors Limin Wang and He Tian in 2005, and then received his PhD under the supervision of Professor Dieter Enders at RWTH, Aachen in 2008. After postdoctoral research at Kyoto University with Professor Keiji Maruoka, he returned to Shanghai, China. In 2011, he moved to SIOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. His research interests are design novel catalysts in asymmetric transformations, exploration new reactivity of organic molecules and the synthesis of functional materials.

His research interests are design novel catalysts in asymmetric transformations, exploration new reactivity of organic molecules and the synthesis of functional materials.

Abdel-Sattar S. Hamad Elgazwy was born in Beni suief, Egypt in 1962, He received his B.Sc. (with a class of Honors Degree) in Natural Sciences and M.Sc on “Butenolides stereochemical control using sulfur rearrangements” from Ain Shams University and he joined Thomas R. Hoye’s research group at Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA for his Ph.D 1997 on “Asymmetric Synthesis using Palladium (0) complexes”. He was appointed as Assistant Professor at Ain Shams University 1997. He then took up a postdoctoral position in 1999 on “Natural Product Synthesis” with Professor Dieter Schinzer, at Otto-von-Guerick Magdeburg University, Germany and in 2000 with Prof. Dr. Oliver Reesier on Synthesis of Asymmetric Catalysis” at Regensburg University, Germany. He was a fellow of Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology for the synthesis of multi nitrogen heterocyclic compounds anti HIV” at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal 2001. He spent over two years with Professor Jose Vicente’s research group working on “Oxidative Addition Reactions use Palladium complexes” at the University of Murcia, Spain 2001-2003 and became Associate Professor in 2003 at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
 

Research in the A. S. Hamad Elgazwy Group focuses on the development metal-mediated reactions with applications in organic synthesis. We are also developing single-molecule techniques to image catalytic reactions at individual transition metal centers. These single-molecule techniques are part of a big-picture, ground-breaking project to change the way chemists think about studying chemical reaction mechanisms: by actually watching reactions live, one molecule at a time. Ultimately, we are interested in learning about the reactivity of transition metals such that those lessons can be applied broadly to the development of new methods. These studies provide an excellent platform for testing mechanistic hypotheses and for building new fundamental understanding of metal-based reactivity. Organic and Organometallic Syntheses included Stereoselective, Aldol reactions, Michael addition and Asymmetric Catalysis were shown emphases now days. Our research group interested extended to Organometallic (Li, Sn, Si, Cr, Ni, Eu and Pd) & Cross Coupling & Oxidative Addition Reactions to apply for the synthesis of the highly sophisticated organic molecules having biological importance such as (anti-inflammatory & cytotoxic activity). Author of 73 research papers and 11 international patents.

Chunyang Cao got his Ph.D. degree in Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in summer of 2001. In Sept. 2001, he began to work in prof. James Stivers’ Lab in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a postdoc fellow. In Oct, 2005, he moved to Prof. Roland Riek’s lab, working as a research associate. He started to setup his own lab in Sept, 2006. By using NMR, X-ray and other biochemical or chemical assays, he focuses his researches on the structural mechanism of how non-neuron gene expression is activated or repressed, of how DNA backbone P-O was replaced as P-S, and of other unique epigenetic questions related to cancers generation.

Health and diseases directed chemical biology and structure biology by NMR, X-ray and other assays

Rafat M Mohareb is Head of Organic Chemistry department Faculty of Pharmacy Modern Sciences and Arts University Professor of Organic Chemistry at Department of Chemistry faculty of Science Giza Egypt He got his Ph D Organic Chemistry on 1984 Cairo university Full professor of Organic chemistry 1994 Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley University State of California USA from 1999 2002 Visiting Professor At Kuwait University 19951996 He was Humboldt fellows in Germany in 1988 1989 1993 1995 1998 2003 2006 2009 He received the prise of encouragement of research work from Egypt 1995. He published more than 108 Scientific publications in international journals. He Supervised more than 5 PhD M Sc Theses.

Synthesis of new heterocyclic compounds with different pharmaceutical uses. Heterocyclizations of some Human Hormons followed by application of the synthesized compounds in Medicinalchemistry.Synthesis new dyes and their applications towards different fabrics.Recently his research focused on synthesizing antitumor agents.

Li-Wen Xu was born in 1976. After his undergraduate studies at Anhui Normal University, he received his PhD degree in Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2004. From 2003 to 2009, he worked at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (CAS) and Hangzhou Normal University as associated professor. He spent one year (2005-2006) as a postdoctoral fellow at the Université du Maine and CNRS. From 2007 to 2009, He was a research fellow at National University of Singapore, and was a JSPS fellow at The University of Tokyo. Now he is full professor at Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology of MOE, Hangzhou Normal University.

His current scientific interests are focused on chiral synthesis, asymmetric catalysis, green chemistry, and organosilicon chemistry. He contributed to nearly 100 scientific publications with a total H-index = 25.

Dr. Rakeshwar has more than 80 papers including patents and book chapters published/accepted in various International Journals. Notably, in the area of Organic Chemistry, Dr. Rakeshwar has coauthored a chapter in the book entitled “Green Chemistry in Pharmaceutical industry”.
He has won the various awards in his career e.g. Chairman Excellence Award in the category of individual functional excellence, Best Cost Leadership Award  for the development of Lopinavir, Ritonavir & their components and Anveshan Award at Dr. Reddy’s. As a part of organizational building efforts, he also supervises master’s & Ph.D. students in their dissertations. He has been invited in several conferences e.g. IIT-Mumbai, IGCW-2009, BIT-Ranchi, BITS Pilani, 9th Heterocyclic Conference, University of Florida, JNTU-Hyderabad, ISCB-2011, Apollo Hospitals Educational & Research Foundation, Hyderabad etc. to deliver  lectures. He is also currently acting as an Associate  Editor of GERF Bulletin of Bioscience.   
Recently, he has become a member National Advisory Board of Indian Society of Chemists and Biologists.
 

Chemistry

Dr. Xiaofeng Yang received his PhD in chemistry in 2002 from Xiamen University, working under the supervision of Prof. Xiangqun Guo. He spent the following two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of professor Hua Li in Analytical Sciences, Northwest University and then joined the faculty at Northwest University as an associate professor in 2004. He was a visiting professor at Portland State University in the lab of professor Robert M. Strongin from 2010 to 2011. His current research interest is mainly concentrated on organic chemistry with biomedical and related materials applications, new chromophore materials and probe design and chemosensing.

Organic chemistry with biomedical and related materials applications. New chromophore materials. Probe design and chemosensing

Haoyang Wang received Ph.D. degree in 2006, June at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) and get his associate professor position in SIOC. Early in his career, he established a static headspace/SPME (solid phase micro-extraction) GC-ion trap MS and even chemical ionization method for profiling volatiles. Later He complete his doctoral dissertation in mass spectrometric group of Prof. Yin-Long Guo in SIOC about studying of the gas phase reactions of 2-pyrimidinyloxy-N-arylbenzyl-amine herbicides by FT-ICR (Fourier transformation ion cyclotron resonance)-MS. In 2006 July, He joined research group of Prof. Jürgen O. Metzger at University Oldenburg in Germany to study the mechanism of Ru-catalyzed olefin metathesis reactions by mass spectrometry. Now, his interests involve studying organic chemistry and analytical chemistry by modern mass spectrometry, which applied the mass spectrometric skills and strategies to provides practical solution to analysis target organic molecule in complex samples concerning pharmaceutical and analytical problems and to study the mechanisms of organic transformation processes in solution or in gas phase.

Now, his interests involve studying organic chemistry and analytical chemistry by modern mass spectrometry, which applied the mass spectrometric skills and strategies to provides practical solution to analysis target organic molecule in complex samples concerning pharmaceutical and analytical problems and to study the mechanisms of organic transformation processes in solution or in gas phase.

Bapurao B. Shingate was born in Salagara (Divati), Osmanabad District of Maharashtra State, India, in 1975. He obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MS), India. He did his Ph.D degree from University of Pune, Pune (MS) under the supervision of Dr. Braja G. Hazra at Division of Organic Chemistry, National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR), Pune. His Ph.D work focused on the stereoselective syntheses of steroidal unnatural C(20R) aldehydes by ionic hydrogenation and their elaboration to naturally occurring 20-epi cholanic acid derivatives. In addition to this, stereoselective syntheses and ionic hydrogenation of steroidal C-20 tertiary alcohols with aliphatic, vinylic, aromatic, 5- and 6-membered heterocyclic side chains and also he has synthesized various oxygenated lanosterol derivatives. His current research interests include asymmetric synthesis, total synthesis of natural products, multi-component reactions, heterocyclic synthesis and green chemistry. In 2008, joined as an Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. He has published about 80 research articles in the journals of international repute and written 1 chapter of a book.

Total Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural  Products
Design and synthesis of bioactive heterocyclic compounds
Design and synthesis of drug analogues
Development of new synthetic methodologies
 

Sameh A. S. Alariqi Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of  Applied Science, Taiz University, Taiz, Yemen. He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science & Engineering in March 2006, from the Division of Polymer Science and Engineering; National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi, India. His thesis was based on Durability of Radiation-Sterilized Biomedical Polyolefins: Stabilization of Ethylene-Polypropylene Copolymer to Gamma Initiated Oxidation. His research experience is in the fields of Degradation and Stabilization of Polymers, Biodegradable Polymers, synthesis of stabilizers, stabilizers interaction and synergism mechanism, Radiochemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Food Safety. Several researches were published dealing with Degradation and Stabilization of Biomedical Plastics and Packaging material using food approved stabilizers against γ-sterilization published in several journals and 2 books dealing with these topics. He was awarded the Prize of Yemen President for Scientific Research 2010 in the Field of Environmental Science and Pollution Control.

Degradation (Gamma Radiation /UV –Degradation, Thermal Degradation, Biodegradation), and Stabilization of Polymers, Synthesis of Stabilizers, Stabilizers Interaction and Synergism Mechanism.
Pollution Control and Industrial Waste Treatments; Pollution Monitoring and Techniques

Dr. Dik-Lung Ma was born 1976 in Hong Kong and graduated from University of Hong Kong with a B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1999. He completed his Ph.D. in 2004 at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Chi-Ming Che. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Prof. Kwok-Yin Wong’s group in the years of 2005-2008. He also served as a visiting scientist under the guidance of Prof. Ruben Abagyan at Scripps Research Institute during his postdoctoral appointment. Dr. Ma was appointed Research Assistant Professor at Prof. Che’s group during the years of 2008-2010. He was also appointed Honorary Assistant Professor at University of Hong Kong in 2009. Since 2010, he has been the Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Ma has a board research interests in computer assisted drug discovery and design. His researches are centered on computational structural biology, computer assisted natural product drug discovery, and structural-based drug design and chemical modification of lead compounds.

Satoru Matsukawa is currently an associate professor of chemistry at Ibaraki University. He received his BS from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992 and a Ph.D from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1997 under the direction of Professor Koichi Mikami. He joined Chiba University as an assistant professor in 1997. In 2001, he moved to Ibaraki University as an associate professor.

Organocatalysis, Organophosphorous chemistry, Organolanthanide chemistry, and Green chemistry.