Chemistry Faculty
Joseph Ready, PhD
Chair, Chemistry Training Track
Chuo Chen, PhD
Research: Natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology development, small molecule library synthesis, and chemical biology
Chen Lab
Phone: 214-648-5048
Email: chuo.chen@utsouthwestern.edu
David Corey, PhD
Research: Engineering proteins and nucleic acids for novel function
Coray Lab
Phone: 214-645-6155
Email: david.corey@utsouthwestern.edu
Jef De Brabander, PhD
Research: Synthesis of natural products and other molecular architectures and interrogation of their mode-of-action using molecular pharmacology and biochemistry
De Brabander Lab
Phone: 214-648-7808
Email: jef.debrabander@utsouthwestern.edu
Laszlo Kurti, PhD
Research: Development of new methods for the enantioselective assembly heterocycles and carbocycles. Preparation of architecturally complex bioactive natural products and their derivatives
Kurti Lab
Phone: 214-648-2319
Email: laszlo.kurti@utsouthwestern.edu
Wen-Hong Li, PhD
Research: Intercellular communications through gap junctions; molecular engineering of fluorescent sensors for cellular imaging; wide field, confocal and multi-photon fluorescence microscopy; mechanisms and functions of cellular calcium signaling
Li Lab
Phone: 214-648-6362
Email: wen-hong.li@utsouthwestern.edu
John MacMillan, PhD
Research: Isolation and structural determination of biologically active natural products from marine bacteria; new methodology for stereochemical assignment; medicinal chemistry
MacMillan Lab
Phone: 214-648-8653
Email: john.macmillan@utsouthwestern.edu
Joseph Ready, PhD
Research: Discovery and application of new chemical reactions; total synthesis of complex molecules
Ready Lab
Phone: 214-648-0313
Email: joseph.ready@utsouthwestern.edu
Uttam Tambar, PhD
Research: Synthesis of complex biologically active natural products, and development of new tandem methodologies
Tambar Lab
Phone: 214-648-0580
Email: uttam.tambar@utsouthwestern.edu
Gomika Udugamasooriya, PhD
Research: Development of high affinity and specific peptidomimetics for imaging and therapeutic applications targeting lung cancer and cancer stem cells
Udugamasooriya Lab
Phone: 214-645-7066
Email: gomika.uUdugama@utsouthwestern.edu