Principal Investigator
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Rong Huang, Ph.D.
Rong obtained her BS in pharmacy and MS in pharmaceutical sciences from Tongji Medical University. After teaching at Tongji for 2 years, she came to Purdue to pursue a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry with Richard Borch in 2001. She worked on the design, synthesis and evaluation of prodrugs to disrupt SH2 domain-mediated protein-protein interaction. After graduation, she did her postdoc training with Phil Cole at Johns Hopkins University, where she developed a method to site-specifically introduce acetyl-Lys mimics into proteins, as well as worked on histone demethylase enzymology and inhibitor discovery. In 2011, she joined Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Medicinal Chemistry as an Assistant Professor, where her lab focused on mechanism, recognition, and inhibition of the protein methyltransferases. In 2017, Rong returned to Purdue as an Associate Professor, where her lab continues to apply an interdisciplinary approach to understand the molecular mechanisms of methyltransferases and acetyltransferases, design and synthesize selective and potent inhibitors to manipulate the epigenetic pathways, and to develop novel and targeted epigenetic drugs.
Contact: huang-r at purdue dot edu |
Our Team
Postdoctoral Research Fellows
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Dr. Dongxing Chen (11/2016-)
Ph.D. (2016) Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University B.S. (2011) Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University chen2738 at purdue dot edu |
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Dr. Iredia D. Iyamu (05/2019-) Postdoc (9/2016-4/2019) Medicinal Chemistry, Northwestern University Ph.D. (2016) Organic Chemistry, Northeastern University M.S. (2009) Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, University of Benin, Nigeria B.S. (2004) Industrial Chemistry, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria iiyamu at purdue dot edu Dr. Youchao Deng (09/2019-)
Ph.D. (2019) Medicinal Chemistry, Central South University M.S. (2016) Medicinal Chemistry, Central South University B.S. (2013) Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine deng215 at purdue dot edu Dr. Nazimuddin (10/2019-)
Postdoc (2015-2019) Enzyme Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Louisville, KY, USA Ph.D. (2015) Enzyme Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany M.S. (2009 Biochemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan B.S. (2004) Chemistry, Gomal University, Pakistan nnazimud at purdue dot edu |
Graduate Student
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Guangping Dong (08/2017- Graduate program (2015-2017) Virginia Commonwealth University M.S. (2015) Medicinal Chemistry, China Pharmaceutical University B.S. (2012) Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University dong216 at purdue dot edu |
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Yi-Hsun Ho (12/2018- M.S. (2015) Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Taiwan University B.S. (2013) Pharmacy, National Taiwan University ho156 at purdue dot edu Ying Meng (12/2018-
M.S. (2018) Chemical Biology, Peking University Health Science Center B.S. (2015) Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University meng91 at purdue dot edu |
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Krystal Diaz (12/2019-
M.S. (2018) Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University B.S. (2014) Chemistry, Florida Inernational University diaz161 at Purdue dot edu Amr Elkabbany (12/2019- B.S. (2019) Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University ahelkabb at Purdue dot edu |
Undergraduate Students
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Yuanrui Zhao (01/2019-
Undergraduate student, Purdue University |