Principal Investigator
Matthew R. Pratt, Ph.D.
● B.S. in Biochemistry and Math 1999, University of Arizona, Tucson (Robin Polt), ● Ph.D. in Chemistry 2004, University of California, Berkeley (Carolyn Bertozzi), ● American Cancer Society Fellow 2005-2009, Rockefeller University (Tom Muir), ● Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Postdocs
Dongning (Lester) Liu
● BS in Application Chemistry 2017, East China University of Science and Technology. ● MS in Pharmaceutical Engineering 2020, Southwest Jiaotong University, ● MS in Chemistry 2021, Georgia State University (Maged Henary), ● PhD in Chemistry 2025, Georgia State University (Binghe Wang)
Group Job: Centrifuges and plate reader
Graduate Students
Gilbert Ampomah
● Bsc in Chemistry 2020, KNUST, Ghana (Lawrence S. Borquaye)
Group Job: Lyophilizer & safety
Ramon Gudiño Garcia
● B.S. in Pharmaceutical and Biological Chemistry 2021, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Alica Hernadez Campos and Rafael Castillo)
Group Job: Rotavaps, pumps, & solicitors
Geoffrey Lang
● B.S. in Chemistry 2020, USC (Matthew Pratt)
Group Job: qTOF & Biotage
Rhianna Haynie-Cion
● B.S. in Biochemistry 2021, UCSB (Thomas Weimbs & Ryoko Oono)
Group Job: Peptide synthesizer & tissue culture
Michelle (Shelley) Helmeke
● B.S. in Biochemistry 2022, Creighton University (Julianne Strauss-Soukup)
Group Job: HPLCs, water baths, & sonicator
Jack Swanson
● B.S. in Chemistry 2022, Emory University (Robert Gross)
Group Job: qTOF & balances
Parth Bhanderi
● B.S. in Chemistry & B.A. in Philosophy 2025, Arizona State University (Katelyn Cooper and Gwyneth Gordon)
Group Job: Fridges and freezers
Hanny Issawi
● B.S. in Chemistry 2023, Loyola Marymount University (Jeremy McCallum)
Group Job: Plate reader and incubators
Lab Mascot
Flannel
Group Job: Providing the perfect balance between comfort and style
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Franziska Meier, Ph.D. (Scientist, emb Biotech GmbH)
Paul Levine, Ph.D. (Principal Scientist, Insamo)
Lisa Walter, Ph.D. (Assistant Vice President, RBC Capital Associates)
Ricardo Palos Pacheco, Ph.D. (Group Leader, Bio-Rad Laboratories)
Ananya Rakshit, Ph.D. (Postdoc, Palmer Lab, University of Colorado Boulder)
Matthew Sarnowski, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemist, Sanford Burnham Prebys)
Giuliano Cutolo, Ph.D. (Senior Bioconjugation Scientist, Abbot)
Graduate Students
Balyn Zaro, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, UCSF)
Tharindumala Abeywardana, Ph.D. (Scientist III, Thermo Fisher Scientific)
Leslie Bateman, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Neomorph Inc)
Nicholas Marotta, Ph.D.
Yu Hsuan Lin, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Merck)
Yuka Lewis, M.S. (Research Associate, Werewolf Therapeutics)
Kelly Chuh, Ph.D.
Cesar De Leon, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Merck)
Anna Batt, Ph.D (Senior Scientist, Vaxcyte)
Narek Darabedian, Ph.D. (Principal Scientist, Norvartis)
Ana Galesic, Ph.D. (Postdoc Harper Lab, Harvard)
Emma Jackson, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow, Bristol Myers Squibb)
Nichole Pedowitz, Ph.D. (Scientist, Alarez Bio)
Aaron Balana, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist, Insamo)
Stuart Moon, Ph.D. (Lecturer, USC)
Murielle “Moira” Morales, Ph.D. (Postdoc Griffin Lab, UC Irvine)
Binyou Wang, Ph.D. (Postdoc Morstein Lab, CalTech)
Ethan Chi, M.A, M.B.A
Lauren Hornbrook, M.S.
Eldon Hard, Ph.D. (Postdoc Lai Lab, Einstein College of Medicine)
Afraah Javed, Ph.D.