July

• Congratulations to Dr. Kalani Jayanetti for successfully defending her thesis!

• ART26.12, an anti-nociceptive compound originally developed at Stony Brook in collaboration between the Ojima and Kaczocha groups, was given initial approval by the FDA to start human phase 1 trials!  

• Welcome to Simon's Summer Research participants Katie Shou, Allyson Wong and Elizabeth Xiu.

• Welcome to new undergraduate students Maggie Chan and Daniel He.

May

• Congratulations to our graduates Kalani Jayanetti, Ashna Garg, Jacob Acosta, Binna Chen, Saba Gulzar and Yuxuan Zhang!

• Kalani Jayanetti (Ph.D.) received the Maria Tzamaioudaki Memorial Award for Outstanding Doctoral Student, Ashna Garg (Ph.D.) received the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service, Saba Gulzar (B.S.) received the Outstanding Chemistry Student Award, the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemical Research, the 2023 Emerson Award and Lap Chan Scholarship, and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award. Yuxuan Zhang (B.S.) received the Chemistry Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.

April

• The 2024 Ojima Distinguished Lecture Award was received by Dr. Hiroaki Suga (Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo), who presented "Therapeutics based on New Modalities of Pseudo-Natural Peptides, Products and Neobiologics"

2023

• M.S. students Alexander Reisel and Binna Chen joined the group.

• Undergraduates Duyen Tran and Saba Gulzar joined the group.

• Congratulations to Seungyoun Shin and Chuanzhou (Joey) Zhu for earning their doctorates!

• Recording of the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry's tutorial series, "Pioneers of Modern Fluorine Chemistry" was released, featuring Prof. Ojima's Lecture, entitled "Exploration of Fluorine Chemistry at the Multidisciplinary Interface of Chemistry, Biology and Medicine".

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• Welcome Simons Summer Research Program participants Emerson Briggs, Fiona Wong and Julianne Wu.

• Congratulations to Hehe (Frank) Wang for earning his doctorate and receiving the Department of Chemistry Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research!

• Congratulations to Binna Chen, Veronica Duncan and Divya Jagnarain for earning their bachelor's degrees!

• DHA-SBT-1214 Takes a Major Step Towards Clinical Development! Congratulations to all past and present collaborators!

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• PhD students Jiyun Jung, Chuying (Joey) Zou and Yogesh Kakade joined the group.

• MS student Jacob Isaiah Acosta Jr. joined the group.

2022

• Dr. Krupanandan Haranahalli was featured in the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Highlights

• Happy Birthday and happy 25th anniversary to Pat! Thank you for all you do!

• Dr. Shubhra Rajput joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher.

• Congratulations to Saerom Kim and Adam Taouil for earning their doctorates!

• We welcomed new undergraduate students (Binna Chen, Veronica Duncan, Divya Jagnarain, and Yuxuan Zhang), visting professor Dr. Melissa van Alstine-Parris (Adelphi University) and the Simon's Summer Research students (John Heraghty, Samir Batheja, Kevin Kurti and Richard Zhuang).

• Congratulations to Lei Chen (PhD), Chris Karawan (M.S.), and Dylan Gordon (B.Sc.) on their graduations!

• The inaugural Ojima Distinguished Lectureship Award in Chemistry was presented to Professor Makoto Fujita, University Distinguished Professor of the Univeristy of Tokyo.

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• PhD students Ananya Shibana Thennarasu, Kathryn Takemura and Xinyuan (Martin) Gao joined the group.

• Hersh Bendale joined the group as a PhD student.

• Congratulations to Jinwoo Kim and Timothy Clement for receiving their doctoral degrees in Chemistry!

• Hersh Bendale and Jinghe Lu both graduated with M.S. in Chemistry; congratulations!

• Jordan Roiland graduated Summa cum laude and was featured in CAS news!

• Congratulations to Derek Chien (High school research student, summer 2020) for gaining admission to Columbia University, and for being designated as a "Science research Fellow" based on exceptional achievement in the Science and mathematics. 

• PhD student Dominick Rendina joined the Ojima Research Group

December

• Professor Ojima was elected to the European Academy of Sciences!

March

• Congratulations to Dr. Krupa Haranahalli for being awarded the 2020 Scarborough Postdoctoral Award from the Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a cardiovascular company founded by and accomplished medicinal chemist -- Dr. Robert M. Scarborough.

January

• Dr. Ojima and collaborators Dr. Rizzo, Dr. Kaczocha, and Dr. Trotman are awarded a 4.2 million dollar grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to fight prostate cancer! Read more here or check out the article published in The Prostate.

August

• Congratulations, Jinwoo Kim! Our fourth year graduate student was selected to receive the KASF (Korean American Scholarship Foundation) scholarship!

July

• Congratulations to Yi Sun for receiving his doctoral degree in Chemistry! He took a position in STA Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (a subsidiary of WuXi AppTech in San Diego)!

May

• Welcome! Fulbright Scholar, Greta Klejborowska, as a Visiting Graduate Student from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland joined the Ojima Laboratory. She is in the final year of her Ph.D. study in Poland and will spend one year in the Ojima Laboratory to work on the tumor-targeted drug conjugates of natural product-based anticancer agents to complete her Ph.D. Thesis.

• Congratulations to Atri Maharaj, Julia Zambito and Peter Alsaloum for graduation with distinctions! 

  Atri Maharaj: ACS Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society 

  Julia Zambito: Chemistry Award for Outstanding Service by an Undergraduate

  Peter Alsaloum: Ward Melville Valedictorian Award; SUNY Chancellors Award for Student Excellence.

April

• Congratulations to Dr. Krupa Haranahalli for being awarded the Young Academic Inventors Award from the Stony Brook University Chapter of the National Acedemy of Inventors (SBU-NAI).

• Undergraduate students Julia Zambito and Peter Alsaloum recieved the Undergraduate Recognition Award! Congratulations!

January

• Ph.D. Students Frank Wang and Chuanzhou Zhu join the Ojima Research Group.

September

• Congratulations!!! Professor Ojima was named the recipient of the prestigious Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products by the American Chemical Society.  (See More)

• Congratulations and Farewell. Dr. Changwei Wang assumes a postdoctoral associate position at the Professor Shaomeng Wang's laboratory, Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Michigan. He keeps an Affiliated Member status in the Ojima Research Laboratory. 

• Congratulations and Farewell. Dr. Yao Zong joins Angion Biomedica Corp., Uniondale, New York as an industrial postdoctoral associate.

August

• Ojima Research Lab. Reunion luncheon was held during the 256th ACS National Meeting in Boston (see Photo Gallery). Yi Sun and Monaf Awwa presented their papers at the meeting. 

• Ph.D. student, Adam Tauoil, joined the Ojima Research Laboratory. 

• Congratulations! Timothy Clement successfully defended his M.S. He continues his graduate study as Ph.D. student. 

• Congratulations and Farewell. Dr. Su Yan assumes a postdoctoral associate position at the Professor Martin D. Burke's laboratory, Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbama-Champaign.

• Simons Summer Research Program Symposium was held. Anjali Chakradhar, Erta Kuri and Rachel Li presented their posters.

July

• Congratulations and Farewell. Dr. Yaozhong Zhang joins Adesis, Inc., New Castle, Delaware as a Staff Research Chemist.

• Dr. Antonella Pepe joins the Ojima Research Laboratory as Research Scientist and Chemistry Department as Visiting Associate Professor.

June

• Professor Ojima was invited to the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China for a SUSTech Chemical Science Lectureship and gave a lecture.

May

• Commencement, Chemistry Department Convocation: Congratulations to Jingcheng Ren (M.S.), Anna Panapakides (B.S.) and Senuri Pathiranage (B.S.)!  Senuri and Anna graduated with honors (cum laude). (see Photo Gallery).

• Doctoral Hooding Ceremony for Ph.Ds.: Congratulations Su Yan, Yaozhong Zhang and Yao Zong! (see Photo Gallery)

April

• EUREKA Symposium was held. Sarika Hira, Peter Alsaloum and Sanuri Pathiranage presented their posters.

March

• Farewell. Dr. Yunrong Jing, Visiting Scientist, completed her very productive sabbatical at the Ojima Research Lab, returning to China.

• Ojima Research Lab. Reunion Luncheon was held during the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans (see Photo Gallery). Yunrong Jing, Krupanadan Haranahalli, Su Yan, Yaozhong Zhang and Julia Zambito presented their papers at the meeting. 

• Congratulations and Farewell. Dr. Xin Wang joins Genesco, Cambridge, MA, as Staff Research Chemist. 

January

• Ph.D. students, Allan Tran and Lei Chen, as well as a B.S./M.S. student, Jingon Riu joined the Ojima Research Laboratory. 

• Ojima Research Lab. Mini-Reunion luncheon was held in Guangzhou, China during Professor Ojima's visit to the Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Institute for Biomedicine and Health (GIBH). (See More)