Graduates of the Med Chem Program
- Maali Alshammari, Ph.D., 2022
Synthetic Studies on Valuable Fluorinated Building Blocks
Dissertation Director, Dr. David Colby - AyoOluwa Aderibigbe, Ph.D., 2021
Computational modeling of non-active functional states of the cannabinoid receptor 1 and its ligands
Dissertation Director, Dr. Robert Doerksen - Nicholas Akins, Ph.D., 2021
Thesis Title: “Development of Salvinorin-based Ligands for the Opioid Receptors”
Advisor, Dr. Hoang Le - Amna T. Adam, Ph.D., 2020
Thesis Title: “Application of Fluorinated Reagents in Synthesis and Drug Discovery”
Advisor, Dr. David Colby - Reem Alkhodier, M.S., 2019
Thesis Title: “Synthesis of 3-Methoxyflavones as Potential Antioxidants, Neuroprotective Agents, and Trifluoromethylated 19F NMR Probes”
Advisor, Dr. David Colby - Maali Alshammari, M.S., 2019
Thesis Title: “Synthesis of Fluoroflavones as Potential Neuroprotective Agents”
Advisor, Dr. David Colby - Munia Sowaileh, Ph.D., 2018
Fluorinated Organic Molecules for Medicinal Applications
Dissertation Director, Dr. David Colby - Kelsey McPherson, Ph.D., 2018
Synthesis and Evaluation of Dual-Acting Ligands for Mu Opioid and Neuropeptide FF Receptors
Dissertation Director, Dr. Christopher McCurdy - Michael Cunningham, Ph.D., 2018
Synthetic Investigation of Natural Products Causing Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration
Dissertation Director, Dr. John Rimoldi - Mohammed Jihan, Ph.D., 2017
Synthesis, Chemistry, Biological Evaluation and Structure-Activity Relationships of rac- and Chiral 6-Desmethyl-5β-Hydroxy-D-secoartemisinin
Dissertation director, Dr. John Rimoldi - Veda Gogineni, Ph.D., 2017
Phytochemical Investigation of Psychoactive Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Neurological Disorders
Dissertation director, Dr. John Rimoldi - Manal Nael, Ph.D., 2016
Targeting Protein Kinases to Manage or Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease
Dissertation director, Dr. Robert J. Doerksen - Walid Alsharif, Ph.D., 2015
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Sigma Receptors (sRS) Ligands as Potential Pharmacotherapy for Cancer, and Drug Addiction
Dissertation director, Dr. Christopher R. McCurdy - Eric Bow, Ph.D., 2015
Design, Synthesis and Cannabinoid Receptor Activity of Benzofuran Ligands
Dissertation director, Dr. John M. Rimoldi - Pankaj Pandey, Ph.D., 2015
Protein-Ligand Interaction Studies and Identification of New Drug-Like Hits as Cannabinoid Receptor Modulators
Dissertation director, Dr. Robert Doerksen - Shuneize E. Slater, Ph.D., 2015
The Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum ATPase 6 Obtained Via A Mechanistic Study of Artemisinin
Dissertation director, Dr. Robert Doerksen - Amer H. Tarawneh, Ph.D., 2015
Evaluation of Novel Ligands for Opioid Receptors
Dissertation director, Dr. Stephen Cutler - Sarah Chajkowski Scarry, Ph.D., 2012
Dissertation director, Dr. John M. Rimoldi - Marco Arribas, Ph.D., 2011
Synthesis of Analogues Based on the Opioid Alkaloid Mitragynine
Dissertation director, Dr. Christopher R. McCurdy - Rohit Bhat, Ph.D., 2011
Design, Synthesis, Biological Evaluatiohn and Metabolic Stability Studies of Sigma Receptor Ligands
Dissertation director, Dr. Christopher R. McCurdy - Vanildo Braga, Ph.D., 2011
Approaches Towards the Synthesis of Bradyoxetin
Dissertation director, Dr. John M. Rimoldi - Jiangtao Gao, Ph.D., 2011
Fungi Derived Natural Products with Binding Affinities for Human Opiod Receptors or Cannabinoid Receptors
Dissertation director, Dr. Stephen J. Cutler - Swapnil Kulkarni, Ph.D., 2011
Part A: Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of an Anticancer and Antifugal Natural Products: Pseudolaric Acid B, Part B: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Berkeleyamid
Dissertation director, Dr. Mitchell A. Avery - Rob Smith, Ph.D., 2011
Design and Synthesis of Novel Agrofungicides Based on Naturally Occurring PBDEs
Dissertation director, Dr. John M. Rimoldi - Falgun Shah, Ph.D., 2011
Use of Structure and Ligand-Based Drug Design Tools for the Discovery of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Cysteine Proteases for the Treatment of Malaria and SARS Infection
Dissertation director, Dr. Mitchell A. Avery - Mohamed Helal, Ph.D., 2010
Melanin Concentrating Hormone Receptor-1 Antagonists: Discovery, Optimization, and Biological Evaluation
Dissertation director, Dr. Mitchell A. Avery - Eman Habib, Ph.D., 2010
Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Biologically Active Compounds from Terrestrial and Fungal Organisms
Dissertation director, Dr. Stephen J. Cutler - Velvet Journigan, Ph.D., 2010
Part I. Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Ligands for Neuropeptide FF1 and FF2 Receptors. Part II. Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Ligands for the K Opioid Receptor
Dissertation director, Dr. Christopher R. McCurdy - Pankaj Daga, Ph.D., 2010
Combating Hepatitis B Virus by Targeting DNA Polymerase. Computational Insights into Resistance Development and Search for Novel Inhibitors by Virtual Screening
Dissertation director, Dr. Robert J. Doerksen - Tammy Nolan, Ph.D., 2010
Molecular Recognition Studies for the Kappa Opioid and Sigma Receptors using Virtual Screening, Pharmacophore Modeling and Semi-Synthesis
Dissertation director, Dr. Christopher R. McCurdy