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  • Administration
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Senior Leadership

Andrew Mesecar

Robert W. Miller Director

amesecar@purdue.edu

Andrea Kasinski

Deputy Director

akasinski@purdue.edu

Deborah Knapp

Associate Director of Clinical Comparative Oncology

knappd@purdue.edu

Dorothy Teegarden

Associate Director of Cancer Research Training and Education

teegarden@purdue.edu

Douglas Cuttell

Senior Managing Director

dcuttell@purdue.edu

Pamala Morris

Lead for Talent Acquisition

pmorris@purdue.edu

Executive Committee

Douglas Cuttell

Senior Managing Director

dcuttell@purdue.edu

Emily Dykhuizen

Targets, Structures and Drugs Program Co-Leader

edykhui@purdue.edu

Fang Huang

Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing Program Co-Leader

fanghuang@purdue.edu

Andrea Kasinski

Deputy Director

akasinski@purdue.edu

Majid Kazemian

Cell Identity and Signaling Program Co-Leader

kazemian@purdue.edu

Deborah Knapp

Associate Director of Clinical Comparative Oncology

knappd@purdue.edu

Andrew Mesecar

Robert W. Miller Director

amesecar@purdue.edu

Pamala Morris

Lead for Talent Acquisition

pmorris@purdue.edu

Matthew Olson

Cell Identity and Signaling Program Co-Leader

olson126@purdue.edu

Dorothy Teegarden

Associate Director of Cancer Research Training and Education

teegarden@purdue.edu

John Tesmer

Targets, Structures and Drugs Program Co-Leader

jtesmer@purdue.edu

Yoon Yeo

Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing Program Co-Leader

yyeo@purdue.edu

Administration

Douglas Cuttell

Senior Managing Director

dcuttell@purdue.edu

Andrea Kasinski

Deputy Director

akasinski@purdue.edu

Janet Kliewer

Business Manager

jkliewer@purdue.edu

Keith Marron

Building Deputy

krmarron@purdue.edu

Ashley Martin

Business Assistant

acrill@purdue.edu

Andrew Mesecar

Robert W. Miller Director

amesecar@purdue.edu

Pamala Morris

Lead for Talent Acquisition

pmorris@purdue.edu

Dawn Ogas

Data Manager

ogasd@purdue.edu

Jorge Pérez De Jesús

Recruiting Program Administrator

jperezde@purdue.edu

Melissa Ramos

Account Clerk

ramos80@purdue.edu

Sara Strasser

Training and Education Program Manager

sstrasse@purdue.edu

Jaime Turner

Executive Assistant to the Director and Assistant Vice President for Research

jjbiggs@purdue.edu

Ashley Udell

Senior Marketing Specialist

aaudell@purdue.edu

Jiang Yang

Career Development Coordinator

yang1491@purdue.edu

Development Staff

Brandt Patz

Senior Director of Development

bapatz@purdueforlife.org

Amy Willoughby

Development Administrative Assistant

amwilloughby@prf.org

Emily Marsh

Donor Relations Specialist

mlevins@purdue.edu

Members

Vaneet Aggarwal

Professor, Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

vaneet@purdue.edu

Claudio Aguilar

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

claudio@purdue.edu

Brittany Allen-Petersen

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

ballenpe@purdue.edu

Ryan Altman

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

raaltman@purdue.edu

Abram Axelrod

Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry

aaxelro@purdue.edu

Xiaoping Bao

William K. Luckow Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

bao61@purdue.edu

Scott Briggs

Professor of Biochemistry

sdbriggs@purdue.edu

Stephen Byrn

Charles B. Jordan Professor of Medicinal Chemistry

sbyrn@purdue.edu

Ignacio Camarillo

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

ignacio@purdue.edu

David Cappelleri

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

dcappell@purdue.edu

Michael Childress

Evan and Sue Ann Werling Professor of Comparative Oncology

mochildr@purdue.edu

Jean Chmielewski

Alice Watson Kramer Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology

chml@purdue.edu

Gaurav Chopra

James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo Professor of Chemistry

gchopra@purdue.edu

R. Graham Cooks

Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry

cooks@purdue.edu

Kyle Cottrell

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

kacottre@purdue.edu

Chittaranjan Das

Professor of Biochemistry

cdas@purdue.edu

V. Jo Davisson

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

davisson@purdue.edu

Qing Deng

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

qingdeng@purdue.edu

Nikolaos Dervisis

Associate Professor, Oncology

ndervis@purdue.edu

Byron Drown

Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

bsdrown@purdue.edu

Ulrike Dydak

Professor, School of Health Sciences

udydak@purdue.edu

Emily Dykhuizen

Targets, Structures and Drugs Program Co-Leader

edykhui@purdue.edu

Bennett Elzey

Associate Research Professor

belzey@purdue.edu

Marxa Figueiredo

Associate Professor, Basic Medical Sciences

mlfiguei@purdue.edu

Daniel Flaherty

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

dflaher@purdue.edu

Jennifer Freeman

Professor, School of Health Sciences

jfreema@purdue.edu

Chris Fulkerson

Clinical Associate Professor, Veterinary Medical Oncology

cfulkers@purdue.edu

Stanton Gelvin

Edwin Umbarger Distinguished Professor of Biology

gelvin@purdue.edu

Arun Ghosh

Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry

akghosh@purdue.edu

Craig Goergen

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

cgoergen@purdue.edu

Hector Gomez

Morris Goldman Chair in Engineering

hectorgomez@purdue.edu

Humaira Gowher

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

hgowher@purdue.edu

Hana Hall

Research Assistant Professor

hallh@purdue.edu

Mark Hall

Professor of Biochemistry

mchall@purdue.edu

Jason Hanna

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

hannaja@purdue.edu

Tony Hazbun

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

thazbun@purdue.edu

Gregory Henderson

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Science

gchender@purdue.edu

Fang Huang

Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing Program Co-Leader

fanghuang@purdue.edu

Rong Huang

Evanson-McCoy Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

huang-r@purdue.edu

David Janes

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

janes@ecn.purdue.edu

Hyunyoung Jeong

Professor, Department of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics

youngjeong@purdue.edu

Qing Jiang

Professor, Department of Nutrition Science

qjiang@purdue.edu

Andrea Kasinski

Deputy Director

akasinski@purdue.edu

Majid Kazemian

Cell Identity and Signaling Program Co-Leader

kazemian@purdue.edu

Daisuke Kihara

Professor of Biological SciencesProfessor of Computer Science

dkihara@cs.purdue.edu

Kee-Hong Kim

Professor of Food Science

kim618@purdue.edu

Young Kim

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

youngkim@purdue.edu

Ann Kirchmaier

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

akirchma@purdue.edu

Shawna Klahn

Associate Professor, Oncology

sklahn@purdue.edu

Deborah Knapp

Associate Director of Clinical Comparative Oncology

knappd@purdue.edu

Casey Krusemark

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

ckrusema@purdue.edu

Richard Kuhn

Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor in Science

kuhnr@purdue.edu

Nadia Attallah Lanman

Manager, Collaborative Core for Cancer Bioinformatics

natallah@purdue.edu

Jianing Li

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

jianing-li@purdue.edu

Seung-Oe Lim

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

limsoe@purdue.edu

Mark Lipton

Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology

lipton@purdue.edu

Jing Liu

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy

liu456@purdue.edu

Phillip S. Low

Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry | Biochemistry

plow@purdue.edu

Shalini Low-Nam

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

slownam@purdue.edu

Angeline Lyon

Associate Professor of Biochemistry

lyonam@purdue.edu

Nathaniel Mabe

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

nwmabe@purdue.edu

Sandro Matosevic

Associate Professor

sandro@purdue.edu

Seema Mattoo

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

smattoo@purdue.edu

Scott McLuckey

John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry

mcluckey@purdue.edu

Susan Mendrysa

Professor of Basic Medical Sciences

mendrysa@purdue.edu

Andrew Mesecar

Robert W. Miller Director

amesecar@purdue.edu

Lauren Metskas

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

metskas@purdue.edu

Suresh Mittal

Distinguished Professor of Virology

mittal@purdue.edu

Nicholas Noinaj

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

nnoinaj@purdue.edu

David Nolte

Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy

nolte@purdue.edu

Valerie O'Brien

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

vpobrien@purdue.edu

Oluwaseyi Oderinde

Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences

ooderind@purdue.edu

Joseph Ogas

Department Head & Professor of Biochemistry

ogas@purdue.edu

Matthew Olson

Cell Identity and Signaling Program Co-Leader

olson126@purdue.edu

Kinam Park

Professor of Pharmaceutics,Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering

kpark@purdue.edu

Elizabeth Parkinson

Assistant Professor, Organic Chemistry

eparkins@purdue.edu

Pete Pascuzzi

Associate Professor

ppascuzz@purdue.edu

Carol Post

Distinguished Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

cbp@purdue.edu

Doraiswami Ramkrishna

Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering

ramkrish@purdue.edu

Timothy Ratliff

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Pathobiology

tlratliff@purdue.edu

Marije Risselada

Associate Professor, Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery

mrissela@purdue.edu

Andrea Pires dos Santos

Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Pathology

santos1@purdue.edu

Cagri Savran

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

savran@purdue.edu

Matthew Scarpelli

Assistant Professor, School of Health Sciences

mscarpel@purdue.edu

Marejka Shaevitz

Clinical Assistant Professor, Oncology

mshaevit@purdue.edu

Jonathan Shannahan

Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences

jshannah@purdue.edu

Luis Solorio

Associate Professor Of Biomedical Engineering

lsolorio@purdue.edu

Robert Stahelin

Retter Professor of Pharmacy,Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

rstaheli@purdue.edu

Keith Stantz

Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences

kstantz@purdue.edu

Cynthia Stauffacher

Professor,Associate Head for Research and Graduate Education

cstauffa@purdue.edu

Andy Tao

Professor of Biochemistry

taow@purdue.edu

Dorothy Teegarden

Associate Director of Cancer Research Training and Education

teegarden@purdue.edu

John Tesmer

Targets, Structures and Drugs Program Co-Leader

jtesmer@purdue.edu

David Thompson

Professor, Organic Chemistry

davethom@purdue.edu

Elizabeth Tran

Professor of Biochemistry

ejtran@purdue.edu

Chris Uyeda

Herbert C. Brown Chair in Chemistry

cuyeda@purdue.edu

Val J. Watts

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

wattsv@purdue.edu

Vikki Weake

Professor of Biochemistry

vweake@purdue.edu

Alexander Wei

Professor, Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

alexwei@purdue.edu

Patricia Wolf

Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition Science

wolfpm@purdue.edu

You-Yeon Won

Professor of Chemical Engineering

yywon@purdue.edu

Danzhou Yang

Distinguished Professor, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Analytical

yangdz@purdue.edu

Jiang Yang

Career Development Coordinator

yang1491@purdue.edu

Yang Yang

Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

yangyang@purdue.edu

Yoon Yeo

Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing Program Co-Leader

yyeo@purdue.edu

Denny Yu

Associate Professor Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering

dennyyu@purdue.edu

Chongli Yuan

Charles Davidson Professor of Chemical Engineering

cyuan@purdue.edu

Chi Zhang

Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry

zhan2017@purdue.edu

GuangJun Zhang

John T. and Winifred M. Hayward Professor of Genetic Research, Genetic Epidemiology and Comparative Medicine

gjzhang@purdue.edu

Zhong-Yin Zhang

Head, Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

zhang-zy@purdue.edu

Qingfei Zheng

Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

zhengqf@purdue.edu

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