Meet Medicinal Chemistry's Five Spring PhD Graduates

This spring, the Department of Medicinal Chemistry had the honor of watching five of our students successfully defend their PhD theses:

Brandi McKnight, PhD
"Chemically Self-Assembled Nanorings: A Versatile Platform for Cancer Immunotherapy and Cell Delivery"
Advisor: Carston Wagner

Jessica Fuller, PhD
“Reengineering Caspase-2 for X-ray Crystallography: Use of Novel Protein Constructs to Gain Structural Insights into Alzheimer's Disease Probe Design”
Advisor:  Michael Walters

Nick Weirath, PhD
“Leveraging Tools for Ligand Discovery: High-throughput Mixture-based Discovery of Novel Ligands to Interrogate the Molecular Mechanisms of Action of the Melanocortin Receptors”
Advisor: Carrie Haskell-Luevano

Tian Lan, PhD
“Rational Design of Next-Generation Rifamycins”
Advisors: Courtney Aldrich & David Ferguson

Parker Flanders, PhD
“Structure and Dynamics of Penicillin-Binding Protein Inhibitors”
Advisor: Elizabeth Ambrose

Congratulations to these five fantastic scholars and scientists! We know you will all go on to do great things.