Team
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
--Vince Lombardi
Adam S. Duerfeldt, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
Background
B.A. in Chemistry, Central College (Pella, IA), 2006
Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), 2011
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute, (La Jolla, CA), 2014
Open positions
Opening for a microbiologist!
Graduate Students
Julia Lee
PhD Candidate
B.S. in Chemistry, Tunghai University (Taiwan), 2016
lee03421@umn.edu
Katelyn G. Stevens
PhD Candidate
B.A. in (ACS) Chemistry, Augustana University, 2019
stev0868@umn.edu
Bo Hu, PharmD
PhD Candidate
B.S. in Molecular Toxicology, University of California Berkeley, 2011
Pharm.D., University of Minnesota, 2015
huxxx442@umn.edu
Alexis Stoorza
Graduate Student
B.S. in Biochemistry, Northwest Nazarene University, 2021
stoor002@umn.edu
Andrew Hunt
Graduate Student
B.S. in Biochemistry, Bethel University, 2020
huntx334@umn.edu
Grant Berkbigler
Graduate Student
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Ohio State University, 2022
berkb004@umn.edu
Postdocs
SK Abu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Centre of Biomedical Research, Lucknow, India
ska@umn.edu@umn.edu
Group Alumni
Staff Scientists
Cat Bishop, Ph.D. - Instructor at University of Oklahoma
Ziwei Hu, Ph.D. - Frontier Medicines, San Francisco, CA
Postdocs
Dinesh Nath, Ph.D. - Senior Scientist II - Cambrex
Yangxiong Li, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Gopal Peddabuddi, Ph.D. - Research Scientist at Accele BioPharma
Graduate Students
Mikayla Twiggs, M.S.
Jessica Gardner, Ph.D.
Quentin Avila, Ph.D. - Research and Development Chemist at Goulston Technologies
April Aloway
Xiaozheng Dou, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Research Associate at Notre Dame
Nathan P. Lavey, Ph.D. - Frontier Medicines, San Francisco, CA
Quentin Gibaut, M.S. - Graduate Student at Scripps Florida
Hailee Rau, M.S. - Quality Control Supervisor at Cytovance Biologics
Apryl Saunders, M.S. - Research Laboratory Manager at Stephenson Cancer Center
Undergraduates
Jessica Knobbe - MD/PhD Student at the University of Iowa
Karla Bonic - Graduate Student at Oregon Health & Science University
Jesse Coker - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cleveland Clinic Center for Therapeutics Discovery
Yanji (Cici) Zhou - Medical Student at Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Tristan Lilley
Delaney Finn
Josie Smith
Ryan Johnston
Sean Nguyen
Erich Thalacker
Joshua Lujan - Medical Student at University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
Dat Truong - Medical Student at UT Southwestern
Visiting Scholars
Fawad Naeem - Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan