People
Cheatham lab group members (updated 2014)
All group members are in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry unless otherwise noted.- Thomas E. Cheatham, III
Director (2014- ), Research Computing and CHPC, University Information Technology
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry (2014- ), Director of Graduate Studies (2011-2014), Associate Professor (2009-2014), Assistant Professor (2002-2009), Research Assistant Professor. (2000-2002)
University of Utah - Rodrigo Galindo
(2012-)
Research Assistant Professor
Lab Photo ~May 2013 post Niel's defense in the new space in the LS Skaggs Pharmacy Research Institute.
Alumni and guests...
- Sean Cornillie
(2012-2018)
Graduate Student - S. Hamed Sadat
Hayatshahi (2011-2017)
Graduate Student - Daniel Roe (2012-2016)
Lab Specialist / Research Associate / Staff, now in Bernie's lab at the NIH. - Christina Bergonzo
(2012-2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, now at NIST. - James Robertson
(2012-, 2014-2016 in Cheatham lab)
Graduate Student, formerly with Ric Baron. Now at Jassen. - Kiumars Shahrokh (PhD
2006-, PD 2011-2015)
Former Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate in Pharmacology/Toxicology with Professor Gary Yost - Julien Thibault
(2010-2014)
PhD in Biomedical Informatics with Professor Julio Facelli. Now at Nuance, Inc. in Boston. - Mahdi Sofla (Summer/Fall 2013)
Undergraduate Student, volunteer - Alex Herrmann (Summer 2013)
Juan Diego High School Summer Program - Niel Henriksen (2008-2013), BC Graduate Student, AFPE Pre-doctoral fellowship in Pharmaceutical Sciences 2012-2013, PhD in Medicinal Chemistry (2013). Niel has moved to become a postdoc in the Gilson lab at UCSD effective 7/13, and is now at AtomWise.
- Jianyin Shao: Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2011), B.S. Chemistry BYU, <jyshao2004@gmail.com>.
- Xiaohui "Sophie" Cang (2005-2010): PhD in Medicinal Chemistry (2010), now in an academic career at the Institute of Genetics, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China. <xhcang@hotmail.com>.
- Scott Pendley (2004-2010): PhD in Pharmaceutics (2010), now working for the feds somewhere? <scott.pendley@utah.edu>.
- In Suk Joung: PhD in Bioengineering (2009), then a post-doc with David Case at Rutgers, and now a Research Fellow in the Center for In Silico Protein Science in the School of Computational Sciences at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study, <i.joung@gmail.com>.
- Pawel Gruszczynski: Visiting Graduate Student in Chemistry at University of Gdansk, Poland (2008), PhD 2010, <pawelg@chem.univ.gda.pl>.
- Shelly Roalstad: M.S. Pharmaceutics (2007), now a Drug Development Coordinator at Myriad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in SLC.
- Elijah Gregory: B.S. Chemistry (2006).
- Ty Curtis: B.S./M.S. Bioengineering (2005), now at Medical School in St. Louis. (actually, he should be graduated by now?)
- Steve Sontum: Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Middlebury College (and my undergraduate honors thesis advisor in Chemistry!), Sabbatical Visitor 2004-2005. <sontum@middlebury.edu>.
- Joe Jackson: B.S. Bioengineering (2004), now working at Communication Certification Laboratory, Inc. in SLC.
- Nephi Thompson: M. Phil. Medicinal Chemistry (2003), now an Assistant Professor of Physics at Wright State University, <nephi.thompson@wright.edu>.
- Stephen Tanner: B.S. Biology (2003), Volunteer Extrordinaire, PhD Bioinformatics UCSD (2007), now at Bioinformatics Scientist at Illumina, Inc.