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Our Team

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Summer 2023
Lead Investigator
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Dr. Jakob Magolan

Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

Boris Family Chair of Drug Discovery

BSc (2002) Queen's University, Canada (R. Lemieux)
PhD (2007) Western University, Canada (M. Kerr)

Postdoc (2007-2010) Griffith University, Australia (M. Coster)

2010 - 2017, Assistant Professor, University of Idaho

2017 - 2023, Associate Professor, McMaster University
2023 - present, Professor, McMaster University

Research Associates
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Dr. Jarrod Johnson

Research Associate

BSc & PhD: University of Waterloo (G. Dimitrienko)
Postdoctoral research: Notre Dame (S. Mobashery); McMaster (G. Wright)

Research Focus:  Dr. Johnson contributes to the management of all research in our lab with an emphasis on antimicrobial medicinal chemistry projects.

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Dr. Mathew Piotrowski

Research Associate

BSc & PhD: Western University, Canada (M. Kerr)

Postdoctoral research: McMaster University (J. Magolan)

Research focus:  Dr. Pitrowski develops scalable syntheses of phenolic natural products of biomedical interest.  His research is sponsored by a partnership between our lab and Naturally Synthetic Inc.

Dr. Lauren Irwin

Research Associate

BSc & PhD: Western University, Canada (M. Kerr)

Research focus: Dr. Irwin works on the syntheses of phenolic natural products of biomedical interest.  Her research is sponsored by a partnership between our lab and Naturally Synthetic Inc.

Graduate Students - PhD Candidates
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Nicole Ritchie

PhD Candidate, Chemistry

BSc: University of Waterloo (G. Murphy)

Research: antimicrobial medicinal chemistry

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Lara Lima

PhD Candidate, Chemical Biology

BSc: Federal University of Ceara, Brazil

Research: antimicrobial medicinal chemistry; development of chemical tools to enable fast point-of-care diagnosis of antibiotic drug resistance.

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Princeton Luong

PhD Candidate, Chemical Biology

BSc: University of Waterloo (with Prof. Michael Chong)

Research: anti-cancer medicinal chemistry

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Gary Wang

MS Candidate, Chemical Biology

BSc: McMaster University (in our lab)

Research: anti-cancer medicinal chemistry & natural products synthesis

Graduate Students - MSc Candidates
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Michael Krzysko

MS Candidate, Chemical Biology

BSc: University of Waterloo 

Research: organosulfur synthetic methods

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Katie Shepherd

MS Candidate, Chemical Biology

BSc: University of Guelph (with Prof. Adrian Schwan)

Research: anti-cancer medicinal chemistry

Undergraduate Students
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Tyler Carmona

Undergraduate Student, Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences

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Amanda Gollinger

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Biology

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Cassidy West

Undergraduate Student, Integrated Sciences

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Erica Cho

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Biology

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John Tran

Undergraduate Student, Chemical Biology

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Ethan Schmidt

Undergraduate Student, Integrated Sciences

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