Curriculum Vitae · 8. Special Panel Reviewer, NIH, Medicinal Chemistry (MCHA) Study Section (1995). 9. Chemistry and Related Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, NIH, Bioorganic and

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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Iwao Ojima

Title: University Distinguished Professor

Education: 1968 B. S. degree The University of Tokyo

1970 M. S. degree The University of Tokyo

1973 Ph.D. degree The University of Tokyo (Prof. Naoki Inamoto)

Appointments:

l973-l983 Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader, Sagami Institute of Chemical Research

1983 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1984 Professor, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1989 Professeur invité, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Lyon, France

1991 Leading Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1995 University Distinguished Professor, State University of New York

1996 Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

1997 Visiting Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

1997 Professeur invité, Université de Paris XI, BIOCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France

1997-2003 Chairman, Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook

2003-present, Director, Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Stony Brook.

2016-present, President, National Academy of Inventors Stony Brook University Chapter.

Award and Honors:

The 25th National Young Investigator Award ("Shimpo Sho"), The Chemical Society of Japan, 1976.

Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, the American Chemical Society, 1994.

The 51st Chemical Society of Japan Award (“Nihon Kagaku Kai Sho”) for distinguished achievements, The Chemical

Society of Japan, 1999.

Emanuel B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries in Medicinally Active Substances, the American Chemical

Society, 2001.

Outstanding Inventor Award, The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, 2002.

NYSTAR Faculty Development Award, New York State Office of Science, Technology & Academic Research, 2002.

Inductee, American Chemical Society, Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame, 2006.

ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, the American Chemical Society, 2013.

Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1995.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997.

Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences, 2000.

Fellow, American Chemical Society, “ACS Fellow”, 2010

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, “NAI Fellow”, 2014.

William and Florence Catacosinos Professor in Cancer Research, Stony Brook Foundation, 1994.

Leading Professorship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991

Distinguished Professorship, State University of New York, 1995

He was invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to serve as a nominator for the Nobel prize in chemistry for

the years 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2014.

Eli Lilly Lecturer, University of Kansas-Lawrence, 1990.

National Science Council Lecturer, Taiwan, 1990.

J. Clarence Karcher Lecturer, The University of Oklahoma, 1992.

George Lesher Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1995.

Boehringer-Ingelheim Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, 1997.

Weissberger-Williams Lecturer, Eastman Kodak Co., 1997.

Dr. H. Martin Friedman University Lecturer, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2001.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University, 2002.

FMC Discovery Chemistry Lecturer, FMC Corporation, 2003.

J. Clarence Karcher Lecturer, The University of Oklahoma, 2003.

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Negishi-Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, 2007.

Ralph A. Raphael Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK, 2008.

The Sosnovsky Distinguished Lectureship, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2008.

Henry J. Shine Lecturer, Texas Tech University, 2009.

National Science Council Lecturer, Taiwan, 2011.

The Ohdang Lectureship Award, The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, Korea, 2012.

Distinguished Lectureship in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2013.

The Ji-Yu Guo Endowment Distinguished Lectureship, Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, Nanjing

University, 2015

SUSTech Chemical Sciences Lectureship, Southern University of Science and Technology, 2018

Professional Activities:

(Editor in Chief)

Frontiers in Chemistry: Organic Chemistry (2017-)

(Senior Editor)

Future Medicinal Chemistry (2008-)

(Guest Editor) 2006 Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: A Challenge in Chemotherapy, Curr. Topics Med. Chem. 2007 Modern Molecular Approaches to Drug Discovery, Acc. Chem. Res. 2007 Modern Natural Products Chemistry in Drug Discovery, J. Med. Chem. 2014 In-Silico Drug Design and In-Silico Screening, Molecules 2015 New Generation of Microtubule-Interacting Anticancer Agents, Molecules

(Advisory Board)

1. Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Molecular Catalysis (1986-1995)

2. Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Organic Chemistry (ACS) (1995-1999)

3. Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics (ACS) (1996-1998)

4. Editorial Advisory Board of Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry (2002-present)

5. Editorial Advisory Board of Letters in Drug Design & Discovery (2003-present)

6. Editorial Advisory Board of Medicinal Chemistry (2004-present)

7. Editorial Advisory Board of Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn (2005-present)

8. Editorial Advisory Board of Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (2006-2015)

9. Basic Science Advisory Board member, Stony Brook University Cancer Center (1999-2010).

10. Stony Brook University Research Park Oversight Board (2007-2011).

11. Cell in Motion – CiM, Cluster of Excellence, University of Muenster, Germany (2012-2017).

12. Advisory Board member, Stony Brook Cancer Center (2014-presnet).

(Symposia and Conferences)

1. Chairperson, The Stony Brook Symposium on Taxol and Taxotère, "New Hope for Breast Cancer Chemotherapy"

Stony Brook, NY, May (1993).

2. Chairperson, Symposium on "Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Taxane and Taxoid Anticancer Agents", 207th

American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March (1994).

3. Chairperson, Symposium on "Fluoroamino Acids and Peptides in Medicinal Chemistry", 210th American Chemical

Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL, August (1995).

4. Organizer and Chairperson, Symposium on "New Prospects in Anticancer Agents for the 21st Century" 219th

American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March (2000).

5. Organizer, Ernest Guenther Award Symposium”, 219th

American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco,

CA, March 2000.

6. Organizer, Ernest Guenther Award Symposium, 229th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA,

March (2005).

7. Organizer, Symposium on “Drug Resistant Tuberculosis – Challenge in Chemotherapy”, 229th American Chemical

Society National Meeting, San Diego, CA, March (2005).

8. Organizer, ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry Symposium, 231st American Chemical Society National

Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March (2006).

9. Organizer, “Modern Natural Products Chemistry and Drug Discovery” Symposium, 231st American Chemical

Society National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March (2006).

10. Organizer, “Ernest Guenther Award Symposium, 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago, IL,

March (2007).

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11. Organizer, “Modern Molecular Strategies for Tumor-Targeting Drug Delivery”, 234th American Chemical Society

National Meeting, Boston, MA, August (2007)

(Advisory Committee, Panel Reviewer)

1. Advisory Committee Member, NIH, Medicinal Chemistry (MCHA) Study Section (1988-1992).

2. Ad Hoc Member, Triennial Oversight Committee, Chemistry Division, NSF (1992).

3. Panel Reviewer, Basic Energy Science Program, U. S. Department of Energy (1992).

4. Advisory Committee Member Reserve, NIH (1992-1995).

5. Panel Reviewer, REU Program, Chemistry Division, NSF (1992).

6. Panel Reviewer, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry (1994).

7. Chemistry and Related Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, NIH, Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry (BNP-1)

Program (1995).

8. Special Panel Reviewer, NIH, Medicinal Chemistry (MCHA) Study Section (1995).

9. Chemistry and Related Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, NIH, Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry (BNP-1)

Program (1996).

10. Chemistry and Related Sciences Special Emphasis Panel, NIH, SBIR and STTR Programs (1996).

11. Panel Reviewer, NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (1997).



14. Special Panel Reviewer, NIH, Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry (BNP) Study Section (2002).

15. Panel Reviewer, NCI, Basic & Preclinical Subcommittee IRG (2002).

16. Panel Reviewer, NCI, Basic & Preclinical Subcommittee IRG (2003).

17. Panel Reviewer, NIH, Drug Discovery & Molecular Pharmacology (DMP) Study Section, Oncological Sciences IRG

(2004).

18. Panel Reviewer, NCI, National Cooperative Drug Discovery Groups for Cancer (NCDDG) IRG (2004).

19. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NCI, ONC-K Study Section (2005).

20. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, BCMB-B Study Section (2005).

21. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, BCMB-B Study Section (AIR, AED) (Feb. and July 2008)

22. Panel Reviewer, NIH, Synthetic and Biological Chemistry A (SBCA) Study Section (June 2009)

23. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH Challenge Grant (June 2009)

24. Panel Reviewer, NIH, SBIR/STTR Cancer Drug Development Study Section (July 2009)

25. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, BCMB-B Study Section (September 2010)

26. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, NIAID Biodefense Study Section (October 2011)

27. Panel Reviewer, NCI, SBIR Contract, Development of Anticancer Agents Study Section (March 2012)

28. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, NIAID Biodefense Study Section (September 2012)

29. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, NCI, SBIR Bridge Award Study Section (June 2013)

30. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, NIAID, CETR Study Section (July/September 2013) 31. Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, NIH, NCI, OTC Cancer Therapeutics Study Section (January 2014) 32. Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (May 2015) 33. Reviewer, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass

Destruction Program (October 2015) 34. Reviewer, Research Council of Norway (October 2015) 35. Reviewer, Oakridge Associated Universities, Florida Department of Health (December 2015) 36. Reviewer, Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) (February 2016) 37. Reviewer, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass

Destruction Program (May 2016) 38. Reviewer, Cottrell Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (October 2016) 39. Reviewer, Oakridge Associated Universities, Florida Department of Health (December 2016) 40. Reviewer, NIH REACH Program, Stony Brook University (November 2016) 41. The Welcome Trust DBT Fellowship Program (August, 2017) 42. Reviewer, Oakridge Associated Universities, Florida Department of Health (December 2017) 43. Reviewer, Oakridge Associated Universities, Pennsylvania Department of Health (December 2017)

(American Chemical Society)

1. Executive Committee Member, Division of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1998-2001).

2. Long Range Planning Committee, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, American Chemical Society (2003-2006).

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Consulting:

He has served as a consultant for E. I. du Pont, Eli Lilly, Air Products & Chemicals, Mitsubishi Chem. Corp, Nippon

Steel Corp. Life Science Division, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, ImmunoGen, Inc., Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Milliken & Co.,

Aventis Pharma, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., INDENA, SpA, Day Casebeer LLP, Fujian Yew Park Biological Co., Ltd.,

ChemMaster International, Central Glass Co., Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &

Sullivan, LLP, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (current), Tayler Wessing LLP (current), Guidepoint Global Advisors (current).

Memberships

He is a member of American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American

Association for Cancer Research, American Peptide Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, The Chemical

Society of Japan, and The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.

Research Interest and Activities:

His research interests include drug design and discovery (anticancer agents, antibacterial agents, enzyme inhibitors),

medicinal chemistry and chemical biology, catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organic synthesis by means of organometallic

reagents and catalysts, homogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry, peptide and peptidomimetics, -lactam

chemistry, and organofluorine chemistry (fluoroamino acids and peptides, fluorotaxoids, medicinal applications). He has

published more than 470 papers and reviews in leading journals and more than l00 patents granted, edited 8 books, and he

has given more than 135 Plenary and Invited Lectures in international conferences and symposia by July 2018. SciFinder

lists more than 980 publications to his credit. Google Scholar shows his h-index as 77 and total citation of >26,300 by July

2018. He has also given numerous invited lectures at universities, research institutes, and industries (total >500 since his

move to Stony Brook in 1983).

Educational Activity as Thesis and Research Advisor:

He has advised 68 postdoctoral research associates/fellows, 117 graduate students (70 Ph.D. degrees and 37 M.S.

degrees), 103 undergraduate research students, 15 visiting scientists, and 61 high school summer research students (most

of them won Westinghouse, Intel, Regeneron and Siemens Science Competitions, including Grand Prize) by April 2018.

Selected Plenary and Invited Lectures in International Meetings since 2012:

116 3rd International Symposium on Organofluorine Compounds in Biomedical, Materials and Agricultural Sciences,

Valencia, Spain, May20-24, 2012. “Fluorine-Containing Taxoid Anticancer Agents and Their Tumor-Targeted Drug

Delivery”.

117 International Convention of The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, Seoul, Korea, October 23-24, 2012. “Tumor-

Targeting Drug Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents”.

118 International Drug Discovery Science and Technology Conference, Nanjing, China, November 8-10, 2012. “Targeting

Prostate, Colon and Breast Cancer Stem Cells with New Generation Taxoids”.

119 International Symposium of Drug Delivery Systems, Nanjing, China, November 8-10, 2012. “Tumor-Targeting Drug

Conjugates of New Generation Taxoids”.

120 21st Winter Fluorine Conference, American Chemical Society, St. Petersburg, FL, January 13-18, 2013. “Exploration

of Fluorine Chemistry at the Biomedical Interface in Perspective - A Personal Account”.

121 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 9-12, 2013. “Exploration of Fluorine

Chemistry at the Biomedical Interface”.

122 International Fluorine Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, April 13-14, 2013. “Exploration of Fluorine Chemistry at the

Biomedical Interface in Perspective”.

123 Congress of International Drug Discovery Science & Technology, Therapy and EXPO, Haikou, China, November 13-

16, 2013. “New Generation Antibacterial Drug Discovery Targeting Bacterial Cell Division”.

124 Congress of International Drug Discovery Science & Technology, Therapy and EXPO, Haikou, China, November 13-

16, 2013. “New Generation Taxoid Anticancer Agents and Their Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery”.

125 4th International Symposium on Organofluorine Compounds in Biomedical, Materials and Agricultural Sciences,

“Bordeaux Fluorine Days”, Bordeaux, July 6-10, 2014. “Strategic Incorporation of Fluorine into Novel Anti-TB

Agents and Anticancer Drug Conjugates for Preclinical Drug Development”.

126 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 10-14, 2014. “New Generation Anti-

TB Drug Discovery Targeting Mtb-FtsZ”.

127 International Symposium of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Jiangyin China, October 16-17, 2014. “Tumor-Specific

Guided Molecular Missiles for Next Generation Cancer Cheotherapy”.

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128 DFG-GRK “Fluorine as a Key Element” Workshop, Berlin, Germany, April 23-24, 2015. "Strategic Incorporation of

Fluorine into Bioacitve Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Studies - Part I"; "Strategic

Incorporation of Fluorine into Bioacitve Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Studies - Part II".

129 21st International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Como, Italy, August 23-28, 2015. “Strategic Incorporation of

Fluorine into Novel Tumor-Targeting Drug Conjugates for Preclinical Development Using 19F NMR and PET

imaging”.

130 5th International Symposium on Organofluorine Compounds in Biomedical, Organic Materials and Agriculture

Sciences, “Bremen Fluorine Days”, Bremen, Germany, July 3-7, 2016. “Strategic Incorporation of Fluorine into

Bioactive Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Studies”.

131 23rd Winter Fluorine Conference, American Chemical Society, Clearwater, FL, January 15-20, 2017. “Strategic

Incorporation of Fluorine into Bioactive Compounds for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”.

132 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2-6, 2017. “Strategic Incorporation of

Fluorine into Bioactive Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery”.

133 17th International Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-14, 2017. “Next-Generation

Taxane Anticancer Agents and Their Tumor-Targeted Delivery”.

134 6th International Symposium on Organofluorine Compounds in Biomedical, Organic Materials and Agriculture

Sciences, “Nanjing Fluorine Days”, Nanjing, May 20-24, 2018. “Strategic Incorporation of Fluorine into Bioactive

Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Studies”.

135 22nd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Oxford, U.K., July 22-29, 2018. “Strategic Incorporation of

Fluorine into Bioactive Compounds for Medicinal Chemistry, Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”.

Invited Lectures Since 2012:

468 Kitasato Institute and University, Tokyo, Japan [January 18, 2012, T. Sunazuka]

469 RIKEN, Advanced Science Institute, Saitama, Japan [January 19, 2012, Z. Hou]

470 Kanagawa University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Kanagawa, Japan [January 20, 2012, M.

Matsumoto]

471 University of Barcelona, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Barcelona, Spain [May 25, 2012, J. Garcia Gomez]

472 University of Ikebasque, Department of Chemistry, San Sebastian, Spain [May 29, 2012, V. Soloshonok]

473 Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CIB), National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain [June 1, 2012. J. F.

Diaz Pereira]

474 Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China [June 21, 2012, Y. Zhao]

475 Haikou Municipal Hospital and Central South University School of Medicine, Haikou, Hainan, China [June 23, 2012,

G. Tian]

476 Chungnam National University, College of Pharmacy, Daejon, Korea [October 24, 2012, S.-H.Jung]

477 The University of Tokyo, Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan [October 30, 2012, M. Fujita]

478 Ajinomoto Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [October 31, 2012, T. Tsuji,

K. Sakurai]

479 Central Glass Co. Ltd., Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [November 1, 2012, Y. Ishi, M. Fujiwara]

480 Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai, China [November 16, 2012, H. Liu]

481 University of Minnesota, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Minneapolis, MN [September 17, 2013, C. Haskell-

Luevano]

482 Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, College of Pharmacy, New Brunswick, NJ [September 24, 2013, E. Lavoie]

483 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan [November 5, 2013, E. Nakamura]

484 Ajinomoto Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [November 7, 2013, K.

Sakurai]

485 Central Glass Co. Ltd., Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [November 8, 2013, T. Komata]

486 Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Drug Discovery Pipeline, Guangzhou, China [November 18, 2013,

M. Tortorella]

487 Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Guangzhou, China [November 19, 2013, Ding Ke, M. Tortorella]

488 Sundia MediTech, Shanghai, China [November 21, 2013, J. Zhu]

489 Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France [July 15, 2014, S. Zard]

490 Gakushuin University, Department of Chemistry, Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan [September 24, 2014, T. Akiyama]

491 Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan [September 25, 2014, Y. Hayashi]

492 Ajinomoto Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [October 29, 2014, K.

Sakurai]

493 Central Glass Co., Ltd., Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [October 30, 2014, T. Komata]

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494 Kitasato Institute and Kitasato University Graduate School, Sirogane, Tokyo, Japan [Nov. 5, 2014, T. Sunazuka]

495 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan [Nov. 6, 2014, M.

Kanai]

496 Kyoto University, Department of Synthetic and Biological Chemistry, Katsura, Kyoto, Japan [Nov. 8, 2014, M.

Murakami]

497 Queens College – City University of New York, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Queens, New York

[March 16, 2015, H. Gafney, Y. Chen]

498 Institute of Chemistry and BioMedical Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China [July 21, 2015, G. Li]

499 Shanghai Jian-Tong University, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai, China [July 23, W. Zhang]

500 Diichi Sankyo, Co. Ltd., Drug Discovery Chemistry Research Center, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan [Oct. 26, M.

Nagamochi]

501 Central Glass Co., Ltd., Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [Oct. 29, 2015, M. Yasumoto]

502 Ajinomoto Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Pharmaceutical Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [Oct. 30, 2015, M.

Tokumasu]

503 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Chemistry, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan [Nov. 6, 2015, H. Suga]

504 RIKEN, Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan [Oct. 18, 2016, M. Sodeoka]

505 Kitasato Institute and Kitasato University Graduate School, Sirogane, Tokyo, Japan [Oct. 24, 2016, T. Sunazuka]

506 Central Glass Co., Ltd., Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [Oct. 27, 2016, A. Ishii]

507 Ajinomoto, Co., Inc., Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [Oct. 28, Y. Tanaka]

508 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Applied Chemistry, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan [Nov. 2, 2016, M. Fujita]

509 The Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic [July 13, 2017, J. Kovar]

510 The Czech National Institutes of Public Health, Toxicology Unit, Prague, Czech Republic [July 17, 2017, P. Soucek]

511 Selvita, S.A., Krakow, Poland [July 20, 2017, C. Commandeour]

512 Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan [October 25, 2017, J. Ichikawa]

513 The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Pharamaceutical Sciences, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan [October 27, 2017, T.

Kanai]

514 Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Central Research Center, Kawasaki, Japan [October 31, 2017, K. Ohsumi]

515 Central Glass, Chemical Research Center, Kawagoe, Japan [November 2, 2017, A. Ishii]

516 Guangzhou Institute for Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Guangzhou Science City, China [January 8 and 10, 2018, M.

Tortorella]

In addition to these invited lectures, he and his laboratory members regularly present papers at the American Chemical

Society's National Meetings, ACS Winter Fluorine Conference, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual

Meeting.

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Research Grants Awarded

1. NSF CHE-8309935: "New Carbonylations by Means of Transition Metal Catalysts"; 12/1/83-5/31/87; $ 203,165.

2. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Y1-4: New Synthetic Peptides Bearing Fluoroamino Acid Residues and Their Physiological

Activities"; 10/1/83 - 3/30/87; $ 80,505.

3. New York Science & Technology Foundation (NYSTF): Matching Fund for the Ajinomoto Grant; 1/1/85-6/30/85;

$ 11,376.

4. NIH Biomedical Research Grant: "Synthesis and Study of Peptides, Azetidines, and B-lactams"; 1/1/84-3/31/85;

$ 5,000.

5. NYSTF, Center for Biotechnology: "Design and Synthesis of Unnatural Hormonal Peptides as Potential Drug";

3/1/85 - 2/28/87; $ 91,025.

6. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Y5-8: New Synthetic Peptides Bearing Fluoroamino Acid Residues and Their Physiological

Activities"; 4/1/87 - 3/30/91; $ 71,560.

7. Japan Halon Co., Ltd.: "Synthetic Studies of Organofluorine Compounds Based on Homogeneous Catalysis"; 8/1/86

7/31/88; $ 25,000.

8. NIH GM-33665: "Novel beta-Lactams, Azetidines and Brain Peptides"; 9/1/86 - 2/28/90; $ 303,411.

9. NYSSTF, Center for Biotechnology: "Design and Synthesis of Unnatural Hormonal Peptides, Enzyme Inhibitors and

Enzyme Inactivators"; 7/1/87 - 6/30/89; $ 70,000.

10. ACS-PRF 19420-AC1: "New Carbonylations Promoted by Mixed-Metal Catalyst System"; 9/1/87-8/31/89; $ 35,000.

11. NSF CHE-8721792: "Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies on the Homogeneous Catalysis of Transition Metal

Complexes"; 6/1/88 - 5/31/91; $ 189,960.

12. NIH GM39226 01~03: "New Synthesis of Biochemicals with Homogeneous Catalysts"; 9/1/88 - 8/31/91; $ 332,115.

13. NIH Biomedical Research Grant: Instrumentation Program; purchase of a polarimeter; 1/88; $ 21,000.

14. NYSSTF, Center for Biotechnology: "Development of Specific Inhibitors for Platelet Aggregation as Potential

Therapeutic Drug"; 7/1/88 - 6/30/90; $ 70,000; collaboration with Prof. B. S. Coller, Hematology Department.

15. Central Glass Co., Ltd.: "Synthetic Studies of Organofluorine Compounds"; 8/1/87-7/31/88; $14,000.

16. Mitsubishi Kasei Corp. Y01-03: "New Syntheses with Homogeneous Carbonylations"; 4/1/89 - 3/31/92; $ 81,751.

17. Nippon Steel Corp. "Design and Synthesis of New Specific Inhibitors for Platelet Aggregation"; 8/1/89 - 7/31/95;

$404,864.

18. NIH GM42798 01~04: "Asymmetric Synthesis of Non-Protein Amino Acids"; 3/1/90 - 2/29/94; $531,381.

19. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Y9-11: New Synthetic Peptides Bearing Unnatural Amino Acid Residues and Their Physiological

Activities"; 4/1/91 - 3/30/94; $53,670.


Complexes"; 8/1/91-7/31/94; (d) $192,800.

21. NIH GM39226 04~06: "New Synthesis of Biochemicals with Homogeneous Catalysts"; 9/1/91-8/31/95; $446,386.

22. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Y01-04: "Synthesis of Taxol, Taxotere and Their Analogs and Precursors"; 11/1/91-12/31/94;

$182,691.

23. Mitsubishi Kasei Corp. Y04-06: "New Syntheses with Homogeneous Carbonylations"; 4/1/92 - 3/31/95; $ 111,835.

24. NYSSTF, Center for Biotechnology/Lederle Laboratories: "Discovery and Development of New Anti-Cancer

Agents"; 8/1/93-7/31/95; $95,000.

25. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Y12: New Synthetic Peptides Bearing Unnatural Amino Acid Residues and Their Physiological

Activities"; 4/1/94 - 3/31/95; $17,980.

26. NIH GM42798 05~09: "Non-Protein Amino Acids and Taxoid Antitumor Agents"; 3/1/94 - 3/31/98; $798,882.


Complexes"; 8/1/94-7/31/97; $332,000.

28. American Chemical Society, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award: unrestricted, $25,000.

29. Mitsubishi Kasei Corp. Y07-09: "New Syntheses with Homogeneous Carbonylations"; 4/1/95 - 3/31/98; $123,000.

30. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Y05-06: "Design and Synthesis of New Farnesyl Transferase Inhibitors as Antitumor Agents",

1/1/95-12/31/97; $149,118.

31. Indena, SpA. "Development of New Taxoid Antitumor Agents", 4/1/95-3/31/97, $179,474.

32. NIH GM39226 07~10: "New Synthesis of Biochemicals with Homogeneous Catalysts"; 9/30/95-7/31/00; $871,831.


Complexes"; 8/1/97-7/31/00; $405,000.

34. NSF INT-9726789: "Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Structure and Catalytic Activity of Di- and Polynuclear

Metal Complexes", International Collaborative Research (travel grant) with Prof. E. Nakamura (Univ. of Tokyo) and

Prof. K. Morokuma (Emory Univ. Co-PI); 4/1/98-9/31/01; $50,148.

35. US Dept. of Education: GAANN Fellowships, 9/1/97-8/31/99, $171,091.

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36. NIH GM42798 9~12S: "Non-Protein Amino Acids and Taxoid Antitumor Agents"; 4/1/98 - 3/31/04; $1,154,620

37. NIH 1F32GM1894301: “Asymmetric Synthesis via Metal-Catalyzed C-H Activation”, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Dr.

An T. Vu, 6/8/98-7/7/00, $56,720.

38. Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. Y10-13: "New Syntheses with Homogeneous Carbonylations"; 4/1/98 - 3/31/02; $308,199

39. Nanoprobes, Inc.: “Syntheses of Immunoprobes and Molecular Probes”, 4/1/98-3/31/02, $160,432.

40. ImmunoGen, Inc.: "Taxoid-Antibody Conjugates"; 2/1/00-1/31/02; $157,919.

41. Indena, SpA.: “Discovery and Development of New Medicinally Active Substances”; 11/1/00-10/31/03; $378,327.

42. NIH GM39226 11-14: "New Synthesis of Biochemicals with Homogeneous Catalysts"; 1/1/01-12/31/05; $787,500.

43. US Dept. of Education: GAANN Fellowships, 8/15/01-8/14/02, $144,285 (Year 1 of the 3-year grant).

44. NSF CRIF0131146: “Purchase of a 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer”, 1/15/02-1/14/04, $262,450 (with $180,000 matching

funds from Stony Brook).

45. NSF CHE-0213216: “New Methods in Catalytic Organic Synthesis with Transition Metal Complexes”; 7/1/02-6/30/05;

$417,000.

46. The Japan Health Science Foundation: “Chemical Synthesis of a New Type of Antibacterial Compounds against Multi-

Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Methicinlin-Resistant Staphyloccocus aureus”, 11/1/02-10/31/03;

$33,769.

47. NYSTAR Faculty Development Award: “Organization of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery”,

4/1/03-12/1/06; $750,000.

48. NIH CA 103314: “Taxane and Taxoid Chemotherapeutic Agents”; 8/1/03-7/31/09; $1,704,703.

49. NIH/FIC R21 TW006638-01: “Drug Discovery & Biodiversity Conservation in Madagascar”; 9/30/03-9/30/05;

$376,195.

50. The Japan Health Science Foundation: “Chemical Synthesis of a New Type of Antibacterial Compounds against

Nosocomial Pathogens”, 11/1/03-10/31/04; $46,972.

51. NIH AI44639 “Targetting InhA for Anti-TB Drug Discovery”, 1/15/05-12/31/09; $1,220,111. (PI: P. Tonge, Co-PI: I.

Ojima)


$420,000.

53. Estee-Lauder: “Analyses of compounds in specific formulations”, 9/1/06-8/31/07; $46,500.

54. Abraxis Bioscience: “Fluorotaxoids and conjugates”, 5/30/06-8/31/08; $148,000.


$441,000.

56. SBU SOM TRO (Fusion Award): “Preclinical Studies on DHA-SBT-1214 for IND Filing”, 11/1/07-10/31/09; $80,000.

57. NIH AI 078251-01: “Novel Antimicrobials Targeting Cell Division”, 12/1/08-11/30/14; $1,919,902.

58. SBU SOM TRO (Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Award): “Multifunctional Carbon Nanostructure-based

Platform for Breast Cancer Theragnostics”; 11/1/08-10/31/10; $80,000. (PI: B. Sitharaman, Co-PI: I. Ojima).

59. NIH CA 103314-18: “Tumor -Targeting Chemotherapeutic Agents”, 4/9/09-2/28/15; $ 1,618,717

60. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) TCBM.THRTOX.01.10.BNL.017: "Structure based discovery of pan-

active botulinum neurotoxin inhibitors", 11/1/09-10/30/11; $1,826,000; SBU share $812,353 (PI: S. Swaminathan, Co-PI

and SBU PI: I. Ojima).

61. NIH CA 150085-01A1 (R21): “Prostate Cancer Stem Cell–Targeted Activity of a New-Generation Taxoids”, 7/1/10-

6/30/12; $401,135 (PI: Botchkina, Co-Inv. Ojima).

62. NIH CA132396-02A1 (R44): “Preclinical Studies on Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid-Taxoid Conjugate for IND Filing”

9/28/10-8/31/13; $2,670,596; SBU share $529,074 (PI: R. Gupta, Project Leader and SBU PI, I. Ojima)

63. SBU SOM TRO (Fusion Award): “Development of Endocannabinoid Transport Inhibitors”, 07/1/11-06/30/12; $80,000

(PI: D. Deutsch; Co-PI: I. Ojima).

64. Manhasset Women's Coalition Against Breast Cancer: “Targeting metastatic breast cancer stem cells using new

generations of Taxoids”, 12/01/2011-11/30/2012; $75,000 (PI: E. Chen; Co-PI Ojima)

65. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) TCBM.THRTOX.01.10.BNL.017: "Structure based broad spectrum

antibiotics", 6/1/12-10/30/16; $3,600,000; SBU share $1,600,000 (PI: S. Swaminathan, Co-PI and SBU PI: I. Ojima).

66. SBU SOM TRO grant (FUSION Awards): “Isolation and Preclinical Studies on Patient-Derived Colorectal CSCs”;

7/1/12-6/30/14; $80,000 (Botchkina PI; Ojima Co-I)

67. NIH/NIDA R01 DA 035923-01: “Anandamide Transport Inhibitors”, 9/15/13-8/31/18; $3,858,792 (Deutsch PI; Ojima

Co-I)

68. SBU SOM TRO (Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Award): “Vitamin-Taxoid Drug Conjugate towards IND

Filing”, 7/1/14-06/30/16; $70,000 (PI: Ojima).

69. SBU SOM TRO (Fusion Award): “Drug Discovery for Regeneration of the Intestinal Epithelium”, 7/1/2015-

6/30/2017; $80,000 (Bialkowska PI; Ojima Co-PI)

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70. NIH/NCI Research Contract: “Nanoemulsion Formulation & IND-Enabling Studies of a Novel Cancer Stem Cell

Cytotoxic Agent”, 9/22/2015-8/31/2018; $2,284,578 (Egan, J. PI; Ojima, I. Co-Investigator)

71. NIH/NIAID R01 AI116420: “New Antifungals Targeting the Synthesis of Fungal Sphingolipids”, 12/1/2015-

11/30/2020; $3,070,883 (Del Poeta PI; Ojima, Co-I)

72. Center for Biotechnology ARaD Award: “New Applied Research & Development Award for “Development of

Nanoemulsion-PUFA-taxoids as Tumor-Targeted Chemotherapeutics”, 7/1/2016-9/30/2017; $80,000 (Ojima PI; Egan,

TargaGenix)

73. SBU SOM TRO (Fusion Award): “Design and Synthesis of FABP5 Inhibitors to Treast Prostate Cancer”, 7/1/2017-

6/30/2019; $80,000 (Kaczocha PI; Ojima Co-PI)

74. NIH/NIAID R21 AI136553: “Antibody-Drug Conjugates That Target Human Cytomegalovirus Infected Cells”,

12/8/2017-11/30/2019; $215,222 (SBU Share) (Tortorella PI; Ojima Co-I).

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Students and Postdoctoral Research Associates (Since 1984 at Stony Brook)

Graduate Students

Haugh-Jyun C. Chen 1984-1988, Ph.D. 1988

Hyok Boong Kwon 1984-1988, Ph.D. 1988

Xiaogang Qiu 1984-1988, Ph.D. 1988

Stephan M. Brandstadter 1985-1989, Ph.D. 1989

Yinhai Yang 1985-1987, M.S. 1987

Nuria Clos 1987-1989, Ph.D. 1989

Fabian A. Jameison 1986-1990, Ph.D. 1990

Yazhong Pei 1986-1990, Ph.D. 1990

Zhaoda Zhang 1986-1989, Ph.D. 1990

Katherine Coulon 1986-1987 (Exchange student from Univ. Wurzburg, Germany)

John Conway 1987-1989, M.S. 1989

Cecilia Bastos 1987 Fall

Mangzhu Zhao 1987-1991, Ph.D. 1991

Kathryn Silvestri 1989-1990, M.S. 1990

Clare Amann 1989-1991, M.S. 1991

*Robert J. Donovan 1989-1993, Ph.D. 1993

William R. Shay 1989-1993, Ph.D. 1993

Elke Schoffers 1990-1991, M.S. 1991

H. Lamont Scott 1990-1991, M.S. 1991

*Young Hoon Park 1990-1994, Ph.D. 1994

Qingping Zeng 1991-1992 $§Chung-Ming Sun 1991-1995, Ph.D. 1995 §Maria Tzamarioudaki 1992-1996, Ph.D. 1996 (diseased 1998)

Edward Ng 1992-1996, Ph.D. 1996 #Scott D. Kuduk 1992-1996, Ph.D. 1996

Dora Fracchiolla Kass 1993-1997, Ph.D. 1997

Subrata Chakravarty 1993-1997, Ph.D. 1997

James McCullagh 1993-1998, Ph.D. 1998

David Machnik 1993-1994, M.S. 1994 &John Slater 1994-1997, Ph.D. 1997

Ephraim S. Vidal 1994-1998, Ph.D. 1998

Evelyne Michaud 1994-1995, M.S. 1995

Aki Tazaki 1994-1995, M.S. 1995

Gauri, Bhave 1995-1996, M.S. 1996

Donna M. Iula 1995-1998, Ph.D 1998 *¶Pierre-Yves Bounaud 1995-1998, Ph.D. 1998 #*Songnian Lin 1995-1999, Ph.D. 1999

Hong Wang 1995-1997, M.S. 1997 *¶Tao Wang 1995-1999, Ph.D. 1999

Zhuping Ma 1995-1997, M.S. 1997

Rufus M. Brey III 1996-1998, M.S. 1998

*¶ Seung Yub Lee 1996-2000, Ph.D. 2000

Minghui Wang 1996-1997 (transferred to Raleigh's lab.)

Chih-Yuan (Grace) Chuang 1997-2003, M.S. 2000; 2006-2007, Ph.D. 2003.

Cecilia Fumero Oderda 1997-2000, Ph.D. 2000

*¶ Christopher P. Borella 1997-2001, Ph.D. 2001 $#*Xudong (Deric) Geng 1998-2002, Ph.D. 2002

Chunhui Jiang 1998-1999, M.S. 1999

Pengyi Zhang 1998-2000, M.S. 2000

Go Sakata 1998 summer (Visiting student from The University of Tokyo)

David Gallagher 1999-2002 (entered The NY Down State Medical School)

Richard Pracitto 1999-2000, M.S. 2000

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Beihan Wang 1999-2000, M.S. 2000

Yimin Zhu 1999 (transferred to Drueckhammer's lab.)

Robert Tynebore 1999-2000, M.S. 2000 (5 year BS/MS program)

Chuanxing Qu 1999-2001, M.S. 2001

Xinyuan Wu 1999-2003, Ph.D. 2003 ¶Zihao Hua 2000-2004, Ph.D. 2004 †Raphael Geney 2000-2005, Ph.D. 2005

Kenji Hara 2000 fall (Visiting student from The University of Tokyo)

Kazutaka Ueda 2001 summer (Visiting student from the Hokkaido University)

Antonella Pepe 2001-2005, Ph.D. 2005

Bruno Chapsal 2001-2005, Ph.D. 2005

Wen-Hua Chiou 2001-2005, Ph.D. 2005

Chae Koon (Dan) Chong 2001-2002, M.S. 2002 (5 year BS/MS program)

*¶Larisa Kuznetsova 2002-2005, Ph.D. 2005 †*Jin Chen 2002-2006, Ph.D. 2006 ¶Qing Huang 2002-2006, Ph.D. 2006

*§Liang Sun 2003-2008, Ph.D. 2008 ¶ Xianrui (Ray) Zhao 2003-2009 Ph.D. 2009

Kazuya Shimizu 2004 fall (Visiting student from the Hokkaido University) ¶Shuyi Chen 2004-2008, Ph.D. 2008

Yuan Li 2004-2006, M.S. 2006; 2009-2011, Ph.D. 2011 ¶Ce Shi 2004-2008, Ph.D. 2008 ¶Manisha Das 2005-2010, Ph.D. 2010

Stephen Chaterpaul 2005-2010, Ph.D. 2010 $$¶ Joseph Kaloko 2006-2010, Ph.D. 2010 ¶ Yu-Han (Gary) Teng 2006-2011, Ph.D. 2011 ¶ Kunal Kumar 2006-2011, Ph.D. 2011

Kimberly Odynocki 2006-2007 (5-yaer BS/MS Program), M.S. 2007 †Ching-Ching Chua 2006, summer (Visiting Student from University of Glasgow, UK)

Edison Zuniga 2007-present

Chi-Feng Lin 2007-present †Marek Figlus 2007, summer (Visiting Student from University of Glasgow, UK) #William Berger 2008-present

Guan-Ting Chen 2008-2009, M.S. 2009 ¶Chih-Wei Chien 2008-2013, Ph.D. 2013 ¶Joshua Seitz¶ 2009-2013, Ph.D. 2013 $$,¶Alexandra Athan 2009-2013, Ph.D. 2013 †Divya Awasthi 2009-2014, Ph.D. 2014

Christina Susanto 2009-2010, M.S. 2010 (5-year BS/MS Program) # Tao Wang 2010-2015, Ph.D. 2015 ¶Yang Zang 2010-2014, Ph.D. 2014

Bora Park 2010-2014, Ph.D. 2014

Lucy Li 2009-2010, M.S. 2010

Wen Chen 2010-2011, M.S. 2011 (5-year BS/MS Program)

Winnie Situ 2010-2011, M.S. 2011 (5-year BS/MS Program)

Melvin Parasram 2010-2011, M.S. 2011 (5-year BS/MS Program) †Stephen McQuaker 2010 summer (Visiting Student from University of Glasgow, UK)

Alejandra Castano 2010 fall (transferred to Shärer’s lab.)

Akira Saito 2010 fall (Visiting Student from Hokkaido University, Japan) ¶Jacob Vineberg 2011-2014, Ph.D. 2014

Ying-Jen Chen 2012-2013, M.S. 2013

Krupa Harnahalli 2012-2016, Ph.D. 2016

Simon Tong 2012-2016, Ph.D. 2016

Changwei Wang 2012-2017, M.S. 2013, Ph.D. 2017

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¶Longfei Wang 2012-2016, Ph.D. 2016

Edwin Lazo 2012-2014, M.S. 2014

Xin Wang 2013-2017, M.S. 2014, Ph.D. 2017

Brendan Lichtenthal 2013-2015 (transferred to Tonge’s lab)

Su Yan 2014-2018, Ph.D. 2018 ¶Yaozhong Zhang 2014-2018, Ph.D. 2018

Yao Zong 2014-2018, Ph.D. 2018

Yi Sun 2015-present (M.S. 2016)

Katherine Maffutti 2015-2017 (M.S. 2017)

Qianwen Gan 2015-2017 (M.S. 2017)

Monaf Awwa 2016-present

Timothy Clement 2017-present

Jinwoo Kim 2017-present

Jingon Ryu 2018-present

Allan Tran 2018-present

Lei Chen 2018-present

Adam Taouil 2018-present

* Recipient of The Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research

$ Recipient of the President Award to Outstanding Doctoral Student

§ Recipient of the Lee Myers Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research

† Recipient of the Maria Tzamarioudaki Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research # Recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, Department of Chemistry

¶ Recipient of the Excellence in Doctoral Research Award, Department of Chemistry &Recipient of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry, Predoctoral Fellowship

$$ Recipient of the W. B. Turner Fellowship

†Recipient of the Francis Johnson Fellowship

Postdoctoral Associates/Fellows

Takehiko Yamato September 1983- August 1984

Suresh R. Patil May 1984- February 1985

Masami Okabe April 1985- April 1986

Anna Korda November 1988- August 1990

Ivan Habus November, 1988- July 1990

Bela Pete March 1989- March 1990

Patrizia Ingallina January 1989- Jun, 1990

Alexandra Graham-Ode July-October, 1990

Masakatsu Eguchi September 1990 - August 1993

Zhaoda Zhang October 1990 - August 1992

Thierry Brigaud October 1990- October 1991

Young-im Oh January-December 1991

Martine Zucco November 1991- October 1992

Qing Dong December 1991 - May 1994

Ella Nadler January 1992 - January, 1993

Chung-Ying Tsai September 1992 - July 1994

Olivier Duclos January 1993 - January 1994

Ivana Fenoglio March 1993 - April 1994

Bruno Simonot January 1994-January 1995

Robert J. Donovan October 1993 - August 1994

Rayomand Gimi April 1994 - August 1995

Zhaoyang Li August 1994 - July 1997

Craig Takeuchi October 1994 - August 1996

Olivier Breyne January 1995 - December 1995

Jiawang Zhu November 1995 - August 1997

Francette Delaloge December 1995 - December 1996

Chang-Lin Chuang August, 1996 - July, 1997

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John W. Walsh October 1996 – August 1998

Maria Tzamarioudaki July 1997 – September 1998

Tadashi Inoue August 1997 – November 1998

An T. Vu August 1997 - November 1999

Subrata Chakravarty September 1997 - September 1999

Xin Wen June 1998 – May 1999

Michael L. Miller October 1998 – September 2000

Ephraim S. Vidal September 1998 – October 1999

Dominique Bonafoux February 1999 – July 2001

Songnian Lin August 1999 – February 2000

Dansu Li June 2000 – October 2002

Ioana M. Ungureanu August 2000 – November 2003

Andrew C. Moralee January 2001 – January 2002

Victor C. Vassar February 2001 – September 2003

Masaki Fujiwara August 2001 – March 2003

Hojae Choi September 2002 – February 2005

Yigong (George) Bu September 2002 – October 2002

Bibia Bennacer January 2003 – September 2004

Greta Varchi March 2003 – September 2004

Claude Commandeur January 2004 – September 2005

Stanislav Jaracz October 2004 – January 2007

Wen-Hua Chiou September 2005 – March 2006

Bruno V. Chapsal January – July 2006

Jin Chen January – July 2007

Qing Huang January – June 2008

Olivier Marec January 2010 – January 2011

Eduard Melief February 2011 – November 2012

Suqing Zheng March 2011 – June 2014

Anushree Kamath June 2011 – December 2012

Kunal Kumar August 2011 – present

Motohiro Takahashi September 2011 – August 2012

Wei Li March 2012 – May 2014

Akira Saito May 2012 – June 2013

Soumya R. Chowdhury February-December 2013

Yu-Han (Gary) Teng March 2013 – March 2015

Chih-Wei Chien September 2013 – May 2015

Siyeon Lee October 2014 – January 2016

Kongzhen Hu November 2015 – September 2016

Krupa Haranahalli September 2016 – present

Longfei Wei September 2016 – November 2016

Changwei Wang October 2017 – present

Xin Wang Ocrober 2017 – February 2018

Visiting Scientists

Kazuaki Nakahashi 1984-1986, Ph.D. 1988 from Tokyo College of Pharmacy

Koji Kato 1986-1988, Ph.D. 1990 from Sophia University

Nobuko Shimizu 1985-1986

Takeo Komata 1988-1989

Daniele Passarella 1996, Ph.D. from University of Milan

Orie Inoue August 1997 - November 1998

Masahiro Murakami July-August, 2000, Visiting Professor

Nobuhiro Mizutani August 1999 - August 2001

Ilaria Zanardi February 2003 – October 2004

Takushi Kaneko 2008 – present, Visiting Professor

Vadim Soloshonok 2010 – present, Visiting Professor

Juliet Hahn September 2010 – August 2011, Visiting Scientist

Hiroki Moriwaki October 2010 – September 2011, Visiting Scholar

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Kenji Suzuki May-September 2015

Xiaodong Ren September 6 – August 2017

Yunrong Jing April 2017 – March 2018

Antonella Pepe July 2018 – present

Undergraduate Students

Richard Pergolizzi 1984-1985 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior and Senior Research)

Surinder K. Jassal 1984-1985 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior and Senior Research)

Glenn Sherman 1985-1986 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior Research)

Chiristine Hansen 1986-1987 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Research)

Donald Dunphy 1986-1987 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Research)

Robert J. Donovan 1986-1988 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior and Senior Thesis Research)

Robert Kearney 1988-1989 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research)

Athena Zuppa 1991 summer (Colgate University, REU-NSF)

Youngmi Ahn 1991 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Research)

Omar Mneimne 1992-1993 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research)

Nadim Kayale 1992 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior Research)

*Didem Ozsirin 1993 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook, SURE-NIH)

Pratip Banerji 1993 summer (MIT, REU-NSF)

John Slater 1993 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook)

Andrew Lam 1994 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research)

Noureddin, Nazarpack-Kandlousy 1993-1994 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research)

*#$Leila Abrous 1994-1995 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Junior and Senior Thesis Research)

Robert Tynebor 1996-1997, 1999 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research)

*$Ontario Lau 1996-1997 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research)

Simone Eppich 1997 summer [Santa Clara University, REU-NSF)

Raymond Lau 1998 summer [University of North Carolina, REU-NSF]

Vaibhav Moondra 1998 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research)

Jignesh Patel 1998 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research)

Ilona Polack 1998 fall [SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Research]

Elizabeth Pollina 1998 fall [Dartmouth College, Junior Research]

David Maloney 1999 summer [University of Vermont, REU-NSF] ##Tram Hoang 1999 summer [SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research)

Chae Koon (Dan) Chong 2000 summer (SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research) $$ ## *Mathew Sturm 2000 summer – May 2002 (SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research) ##*##Andrew Sturm 2001 summer – May 2004(SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research)

Audra Criscione 2002 summer [Providence College, -NIH]

Michael Zacharias 2002 summer [John Carroll Univ., REU-NSF]

Warren Hans 2002-2003 [SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research]

*Khurram Chaudhary 2002 fall– May 2005[SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research]

Ki-Won Seo 2003 summer–May 2005[SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research] ##*Douglas Sturm 2004 spring- May 2007 [SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research]

Kathryn Pietsch 2004 summer [Concordia College, WI, REU-NSF]

Steven K. Chow 2004 summer-2005[SUNY at Stony Brook, Senior Thesis Research]

Ori Maller 2004 fall- May 2006 [SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research]

Kimberly Odynocki 2004 fall- May 2006 [SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research]

Erica Revin 2005 spring-2007 [SUNY at Stony Brook, Undergraduate Research]

Adam Wood 2005 summer [Hartwick College, NY, REU-NSF]

Jullie Anne Gemmill 2005 summer [New York Univ.]

**Rohit Repala 2006 summer – spring 2008 (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Daniel Cohen 2006 summer [SUNY New Platz , NY, REU-NSF]

*James Han 2006 fall – May 2007 (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Sunku Choi 2006 fall – May 2007 (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Fumiko Azuma 2006 summer – fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Benjamin Gowen 2007 summer [Centre College, KY, REU-NSF]

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†*Robert Robinson 2007 summer – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,

Senior Thesis Research)

*Keita Morohashi 2007 summer – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research;

URECA fellowship 2008)

*Wen Chen 2007 summer – 2010 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,

URECA fellowship 2008, 2009, Senior Thesis Research)

*Tolga Sevinc 2007 summer – 2010 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,

Senior Research)

Kimlong Chan 2007 fall – 2008 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Shakil Ahmed 2008 spring – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,


Raymond Camilleri 2008 spring, fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Allison Selbry 2008 spring – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

*Samsad Pavel 2008 spring – 2010 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,


Ping Ping Lin 2008 summer – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,


Adrian Schulte 2008 summer (Visiting Student from University of Muenster, Germany)

Lucy Li 2008 fall – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Christina Susanto 2008 fall – 2009 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Dilruba Khanam 2008 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Michael R. Waldrop 2009 spring – summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Melvin Parasram 2009 fall – 2010 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Winnie Situ 2009 fall – 2010 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Preya Shah 2010 summer (Harvard Univ., Visiting Summer Research)

Cynthia Bollinger 2010 summer (West Virginia Univ. Howard Hughes Medical Institute National

Scholar Program)

Kirolos Ibrahim*,§,§§ 2011 spring – 2013 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research;

Honor’s College Senior Thesis Research)

Alicia Chionchio 2011 fall – 2012 spring (Stony Brook University, Honor’s College Senior Thesis

Research)

Dharam Gohil 2011 fall – 2012 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Phillip Son 2011 fall – 2012 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Adele Whaley* 2011 fall – 2012 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Huimin Wu 2011 fall – 2012 spring (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

David Yacoub 2011 fall (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research)

Evan Herlihy 2012 summer – 2014 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research;


Shabitri (Brinda) Dasgupta 2012 fall – 2013 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Shi Ho Kim 2012 fall – 2013 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Lian Liu 2012 fall – 2013 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Virghinya Ridwan 2012 fall – 2013 summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Nikita Saha-Turner 2013 spring – 2014 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Farhan Ahmad 2013 summer – 2013 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Jonathan Khan 2013 summer – 2015 summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,


Rocco Morra 2013 summer (Dartmouth College, Visiting Summer Research)

Farhan Ahmad 2013 summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Garima Yadav 2013 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Sonali Bahl 2013 fall, 2014 fall – 2015 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate

Research, Senior Thesis Research)

Katherine Mafucci 2014 spring – 2015 spring (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research,


Shenglan Chen 2014 spring – summer (International Exchange Student)

Tenging Lama 2014 spring – summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Darren Trinidad 2014 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

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§§,*Christie Shea 2014 fall – present (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research; Senior

Thesis Research)

Attabey Rodriguez 2015 summer (University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras, NSF-REU)

Raphaela Da Silva Bechara Soares 2015 summer (Federal University of San Paulo, Brazil)

Changiae Yoo 2015 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Yogeeta Persaud 2016 summer (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research) §§,

*Sarika Hira 2016 summer – 2017 fall (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Honors

Research; Honors Senior Research)

Haoqin Ma 2016 summer – present (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research;

Senior Research)

Sadiqah Ali 2016 summer (University at Albany, NSF-REU)

Jingon Ryu 2016 fall – 2017 fall (Stony Brook University, Senior Thesis Research) §§

Peter Alsaloum 2017 summer – present (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Atri Maharai 2017 summer – present (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

Julia Zambito 2017 summer – present (Stony Brook University, Undergraduate Research)

* Undergraduate Excellence Recognition Awardee ## Emerson Awardee, Lap Chan Fellowship recipient # The American Institute of Chemists Awardee $$ Goldwater Fellowship recipient $ Outstanding Senior Research Awardee ## Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Fellowship Awardee

** Beckman Scholar † Sujishi Awardee §Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence §§Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence

High School Students

Pratip Banerji 1990-1992 (Ward Melville High School, Summers 1990-1992) (MIT)

Raymond Tong 1993 (Ward Melville High School, Semi-Finalist, Westinghouse Competition, 1994)

(SUNY at Binghamton)

Elizabeth Pollina 1994-1995 (Ward Melville High School, Finalist, Westinghouse Competition, 1996]

(Dartmouth College)

Catherine Liang 1996-1997 [Kings Park High School, Semi-Finalist, Westinghouse Competition, 1998]

(Stanford University)

Limor Robinson 1997 [The Wheatley Heights School, Summer Research Institute, Stony Brook, 1997]

Punita Bhansali 1998-1999 [Half Hollow Hills High School, Summer Research Institute, 1998, Simons

Fellow 1999; Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition, 1999] (MIT)

Kenneth Hung 1998-1999 [Kings Park High School, Simons Fellow 1999; Semi-Finalist, Intel

Competition, 1999] (Harvard University)

Jessica Rutter 1999 [Plainview-Old Bethpage High School, Summer Research Institute, Stony Brook,

1999; Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition, 1999]

Jason Beiger 2000-2001 [Kings Park High School, 2000, Simons Fellow 2001; Semi-Finalist, Intel

Competition, 2001] (University of Pennsylvania)

Christina Huang 2001 [Commack High School, Simons Fellow, 2001; Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition,

2001] (Harvard University)

Mandeep Virdi 2001-2002 [Plainview-Old Bethpage High School, Summer 2001, Simons Fellow 2002;

Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition, 2002] (MIT)

Kerry Lanigan 2002 [Kings Park High School, Simons Fellow 2002; Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition,

2002] (Notre Dame)

Vikas Gupta 2002 [Centereach High School, Summer 2002] (SUNY at Binghamton)

Sarah Fink 2003 [Commack High School, Simons Fellow 2003; Semi-Finalist, Intel Competition,

2003] (Williams)

Lindasy Fourman 2003 [Plainview-Old Bethpage High School, Simons Fellow, 2002; Semi-Finalist, Intel

Competition, 2003] (Cornell University)

Erica Revin 2003 [Smithtown High School, Summer 2003; Semi-Finalist, Seimens-Westinghouse

Competition, 2003] (Stony Brook University)

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Rohit Repala 2003 [Centereach High School, Summer 2003] (Stony Brook University)

Mary Ellen Corr 2004 [Kings Park High School, Simons Fellow 2004] (Cornell University)

Tina Ho 2004 [Smithtown High School, Simons Fellow 2004; Semi-Finalist, Intel] (Yale)

Christopher Mascioli 2004 [Oceanside High School, Summer 2004] (Cooper Union College)

Nora Micheva 2004 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2004, 2005; Semi-Finalist, Intel] (MIT)

Gabriela Jara 2005 [Kings Park High School, Summer 2005] (Columbia University)

Christine Yang 2005 [Commack High School, Simons Fellow 2005]

Zeynep Basaran 2006 [Smithtown High School, Summer 2006; Semi-Finalist, Intel 2006] (Cornell

University)

Kenneth Winter 2006 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2006; Regional Finalist, Siemens Team

Competition] (Tufts University)

Christopher Winter 2006 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2006; Regional Finalist, Siemens Team

Competition] (Tufts University) Alicia Chionchio 2007 [Smithtown High School, Summer 2007; Semi-Finalist, Seimens Competition] (Stony

Brook University) Robert Hackett 2007 [Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Simons Fellow, Summer 2007; Semi-Finalist,

Intel] (Cornell University) Amanda Marinoff 2007 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Summer 2007; Grand Prize Winner,

Siemens Team Competition] (Dartmouth College) Janelle Schlossberger 2007 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Simons Fellow, Summer 2007; Grand

Prize Winner, Siemens Team Competition] (Harvard University) Rei-I Chin 2008 [Walter Johnson High School, Rockville, MD, Simons Fellow, Summer 2008;Intel

Semi-Finalist; Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (IISEF) Finalist] (Washington University)

Samantha McKenna 2008 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Summer 2008; Semi-Finalist, Siemens Team Competition; Long Island Science & Engineering Fair (LISEF) First Place Grand Award; Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (IISEF) Finalist] (Cornell University)

Shalini Pammal 2008 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Simons Fellow, Summer 2008; Semi-Finalist, Siemens; Long Island Science & Engineering Fair (LISEF) First Place Grand Award; Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (IISEF) Finalist; Long Island Junior Science & Humanities Symposium Finalist & 4th Prize] (Harvard University)

Preya Shah 2008 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2008; Regional Finalist, Siemens; Finalist & 8th Prize winner, Intel; Long Island Science & Engineering Fair (LISEF); Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (IISEF) Finalist] (Harvard University)

Sahil Ketpal 2009 [Texas Academy of Math and Science; Regional Finalist, Siemens; Semi-Finalist, Intel] (University of Pennsylvania)

Alyssa Reimer 2009 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Summer 2009; Semi-Finalist, Intel] (MIT)

Jenny Wu 2010 [Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Summer 2010; Semi-Finalist, Siemens and Intel] (Yale University)

Neil Pathak 2010 [Herricks High School, Summer 2010; Semi-Finalist, Intel; Winner Intel; Long Island Science & Engineering Fair (LISEF); 2nd Grand Prize, 2011Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (IISEF)] (Yale University)

Nevin Daniel 2010 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2010; 2nd Grand Prize, Siemens Science Competition] (MIT)

Sarah Chapin 2011 [Herricks High School, Summer 2011] Semi-Finalist, Siemens and Intel Science Competitions, IISEF Finalist 2012 (Harvard University)

Rocco Morra 2011 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2011] Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2012 (Dartmouth University)

Garima Yadav 2011 [Sachem High School North, Summer 2011] Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2012 (Stony Brook University)

Rajkumar Pammal 2012 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2012] Semi-Finalist, Siemens Science Competition 2012 (Harvard University)

Raghav Tripathi 2012 [Westview High School, Portland, Oregon, Summer 2012] 6th Prize, Siemens Science Competition 2012; Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2013. (Case Western Reserve University)

Sachit Singal 2013 [Herricks High School, Summer 2013, Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition

2013, (Brown University/Warren Alpert Medical School)

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Kent Ueno 2013 [Port Jefferson High School, Summer 2013] Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2013, LISEF Semi-Finalist (Dartmouth College)

Anika Gupta 2013 [The Harker School, San Jose, CA, Summer 2013] Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2013 (MIT)

Abhinav Talwar 2014 [Herricks High School, Summer 2014] Karina Xie 2014 [Hunter College High School, Summer 2014] (Yale University) Glenn Yu 2014 [Hunter College High School, Summer 2014] Semi-Finalist, Siemens Science

Competition 2014; Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition 2015 (Stanford University) Krista Chen 2015 [The Wheatley School, Summer 2015] Semi-Finalist, Intel Science Competition

2016 (Yale University) Sarah Lee 2015 [Syosset High School, Summer 2015] Regional Finalist, Siemens Science

Competition 2015 (Yale University) Anna Vynrub 2015 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Summer 2015] (Harvard University) Albey Joseph 2016 [W Tresper Clarke High School, Summer 2016] Semi-Finalist, Siemens

Competition 2016 (MIT) Ryan Wu 2016 [Manhasset High School, Summer 2016] (Stanford University) Jessica Li 2017 [Pingry High School in Basking Ridge, Summer 2017] Semi-Finalist, Siemens

Competition 2017) Brendon Choy 2017 [Hunter College High School, Summer 2017] Semi-Finalist, Siemens Competition

2017; Semi-Finalist, Regeneron Competition 2018; National Finalist, National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2018 (Columbia University)

Kiana Ziadkhanpour 2017 [Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School, Summer 2017] Semi-Finalist, Siemens Competition 2017; Regional Finalist, National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2018 (Harvard University)

David He 2017 [Ward Melville High School, Summer 2017] (MIT) Anjali Chakradhar 2018 [High Technology High School, Lincroft, NJ, Summer 2018] Erta Kurti 2018 [Hunter College Hight School, NY, Summer 2018]

Rachel Li 2018 [Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie, NY, Summer 2018] ]

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