• Dr. Tamal Kanti Das (October 2020 – January 2023) – Ph.D. from CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (Prof. Akkatu T. Biju). Now a Research Scientist at Calibr @ Scripps Research as of 01/09/2023.

• Dr. Jidong Zhao (September 2020 – Present time) – Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC, Prof. Yuanhong Liu). Accepted an offer from PharmaBlocks in Philadelphia and will join during the Spring 2023.

• Dr. Juha Siitonen (January 2019 – December 2021) – Recipient of Wiess teaching fellowship (Rice University) and the Fellowship of the Oskar Huttunen Foundation. Ph.D. from University of Jyväskylä (Prof. Petri Pihko). Now an Assistant Professor at Aalto University.

• Dr. Qing-Qing Cheng (February 2018 – September 2019) – Ph.D. from Nankai University (Prof. Qi-Lin Zhou) and Postdoctoral Studies at UT San Antonio (Prof. Michael P. Doyle). Now a Principal Scientist at Turning Point Therapeutics (a subsidiary of Bristol Myers-Squibb).

• Dr. Urmibushan Bhakta (October 2017 – October 2019) – Ph.D. from University of Alberta, Canada (Prof. Dennis Hall). Now a research scientist I at IntelliSyn R&D, Montreal, Canada.

• Dr. Adám Gyömöre (January – November 2017) – Recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Rosztoczy Foundation ($30K). Now an R&D project manager at Richter Gedeon Nyrt, Budapest, Hungary.

• Dr. Byeong-Seon Kim (July 2016 – August 2018) – Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania (Prof. Patrick J. Walsh). Now a Teaching Assistant Professor at Gyeongsang National University (Department of Chemistry Education), Jinju, 52828, S. Korea.

• Dr. Zhe Zhou (February 2016 – June 2020) – Ph.D. from University of Hawaii (Prof. Marcus A. Tius). Now a Research Scientist at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, J&J (Start date June 29th, 2020).

• Dr. Jun Yin (January – June 2016) – Now a Group Leader at Wuxi Apptec in Shanghai, China.

• Dr. Zhiwei Ma (August 2015 – December 217) – Ph.D. from Brigham Young University (Prof. Steven L. Castle). Now a Senior Investigator at the Genomic Institute of the Novartis Foundation (GNF), San Diego, CA.

• Dr. Padmanabha Venkatesh Kattamuri (September 2014 – August 2019) – Ph.D. from Texas Tech University (Prof. Guigen Li). Now a Principal Scientist at Arcus Biosciences.

• Dr. Hongyin Gao (February 2012 – October 2016) – Ph.D. from East China Normal University (ECNU, Prof. Junliang Zhang) – Now a Full Professor at Shandong University (Jinan, China).

• Dr. Qing-Long Xu (September 2012 – January 2014) – Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC, Prof. Shuli You) – Now a Full Professor at China Pharmaceutical University (Nanjing, China).

• Dr. Gongqiang Li (August 2011 – February 2013) – Ph.D. from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC, Prof. Shuli You) – Now Full Professor at Nanjing Tech University (Nanjing, China).

• Douglas Saunders – (Grad Student, November 2018 – April 2019). Took a job to support his growing family.

• Kaitlyn Lovato – (Graduated in 2021, joined Fall 2016; Recipient of a 3-yr NSF Graduate Fellowship: 2017–2020). Accepted offer from Janssen Pharmaceuticals (Start date July 2021).

• Nicole Erin Behnke – (Graduated in 2021, joined Fall 2016, Recipient of Welch-Atwell Fellowship 2016). Accepted offer from Johnson & Johnson (Start date April 2021).

• Craig Keene – (Graduated with Ph.D. in December 2016, Recipient of Welch-Atwell Fellowship 2015). Current position: Dava Oncology, Dallas, TX, USA.

• Pearl Fernandes – (Junior, Spring 2021 – Fall 2021)

• Aaron Wyderka – (Junior, Spring 2020)

• Stephen Chamness – (Senior, Spring 2019 – Spring 2021) – Recipient of Rice Chemistry Department’s Zevi & Bertha Salsburg Memorial Fellowship for Summer Research. Now a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan.

• Colin Howman – (Junior, Fall 2017)

• Jung-Woo (Peter) Park – (Incoming Freshman, Summer 2017)

• Molly Hurley – (Sophomore, Summer 2017 – Fall 2017)

• Colm Mulvehill – (Sophomore, Spring 2017 – Summer 2018)

• Russell Kielawa – (Sophomore, Spring 2017 – Spring 2019) – Recipient of Rice Chemistry Department’s Zevi & Bertha Salsburg Memorial Fellowship. Now a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chicago.

• Carlos Barrera – (Junior, Fall 2016 – Spring 2017) – Recipient of the Pfizer AIR Fellowship to work in the Kürti lab; $15K/year)

• Suhyeorn (Jane) Park – (Senior, Summer 2016 – Fall 2016)

• James Siriwongsup – (Junior, Summer 2016 – May 2018) – Recipient of Rice Chemistry Department’s Zevi & Bertha Salsburg Memorial Fellowship. Now a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at Harvard University.

• Zoe Punske – (Junior, Summer 2016 – May 2018) – Was an intern at Pfizer La Jolla from May- August 2017. Now a graduate student at Indiana University in their organic chemistry program.

• Qi (Yukki) Li – (Senior, Spring 2016). Now a graduate student at UT Austin in the Department of Chemistry.

• Anna Truong – (Sophomore, Spring 2016)

• Tania Lopez Silva – (Senior, Summer 2015) – Received Ph.D. at Rice in Jeff Hartgerink’s laboratory in 2020

• Takaya Nagata – (July–September, 2018) – 3rd Year Grad Student from Osaka University; Advisor: Prof. Satoshi Minakata

• Yi-Pin Ng – (June–December, 2018) – CN Yang Scholar & Undergraduate Student from NTU-Singapore.

• Tobias Wilczek – (September–November, 2018) – Grad Student at the University of Cologne, Germany; Advisor: Dr. Martin Prechtl

• Christopher Paasch – (September–November, 2018) – Grad Student at the University of Cologne, Germany; Advisor: Dr. Martin Prechtl

• Dr. Martin Prechtl – (February, 2019) – Privatdozent at the University of Cologne, Germany

• Professor Yaojia Jiang – (December, 2018 – December 2019) – Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China

• Professor Flavio Emery da Silva – (July 1–30, 2019) – University of Sao Paolo (USP), Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

• Manuel Carmona Pichardo – (November 2019 – March 2020) - Grad Student at the University of Cologne, Germany; Advisor: Dr. Martin Prechtl