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Dr. Ramaswamy Narayanan

Professor & Chair and Assistant Vice President
for Research, Division of Research

Ph.D., National University of Ireland, Dublin
rnarayan@fau.edu

Research interests: Solid tumors, bioinformatics, cancer gene discovery and drug discovery.
   

 

Dr. Jerome E. Haky

Associate Professor & Associate Chair

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve
hakyj@fau.edu

Research interests: Chemical education research.
   

 

Dr. Charles E. Carraher, Jr.

Professor

Ph.D., University of Missouri
Carraher@fau.edu

Research interests: Synthesis and characterization of metal and organometallic polymers, bioactive polymeric materials.
   

 

Dr. Predrag Cudic

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Zagreb
pcudic@fau.edu

Research interests: Design, synthesis and evaluation of biologically active organic compounds and cyclic lipodepsipeptides, chemotherapeutics and chemosensors, solution and solid-phase synthesis and methodology, structure-activity relationship studies and combinatorial chemistry.
   

 

Dr. Salvatore Lepore

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Purdue University
slepore@fau.edu

Research interests: Development of synthetic organic methods, the total synthesis of complex natural products and related analogs for structure activity relationship studies, and the development of expedited synthesis techniques to facilitate small-molecule library production.
   

 

Dr. Deborah W. Louda

Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Miami
dlouda@fau.edu

Research interests: Chemical education research.
   

 

Dr. Frank Mari

Professor

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
mari@fau.edu

Research interests: Isolation and characterization of peptides and proteins of marine origin, structure and dynamics of peptides and proteins of marine origin using NMR methods and computational methods for the analysis of structure-activity relationships of biomolecules.
   

 

Dr. Cyril Parkanyi

Professor

Ph.D., Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
parkanyi@fau.edu

Research interests: Physical and theoretical organic chemistry (quantum organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry (anticancer and antiviral compounds), food chemistry, environmental chemistry, coordination chemistry and structural chemistry.
   
                                     

 

Dr. Patricia Snyder

Professor

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
snyder@fau.edu

Research interests: Physical chemistry, molecular spectroscopy (vacuum ultraviolet region), electronic structure of molecules.
   

 

Dr. Guodong Sui

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Miami
gsui@fau.edu

Research interests: Microfluidics for cancer diagnosis and drug delivery.
   

 

Dr. Andrew Terentis

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Sydney
terentis@fau.edu

Research interests: Optical spectroscopy of biomolecules, bioanalytical applications of Raman spectroscopy, Raman microscopy of living cells and tissues for detection of cancer and other diseases, mechanisms of molecular binding to DNA and oxygenase active site structure, catalysis mechanisms and kinetics.
   

 

Dr. Stefan Vetter

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland
svetter@fau.edu

Research interests: Biochemistry of RAGE (Receptor for Advanced Glycation Endproducts).
   

 

Dr. Lyndon West

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Victoria Univ. of Wellington, New Zealand
lwest@fau.edu

Research interests: Discovery of pharmacologically-active metabolites from marine invertebrates, anti-cancer and anti-microbial agents, use of stem cells in developing new drugs for cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and development of novel approaches for the separation and characterization of marine natural products to accelerate the discovery of drug leads.
   

 

Dr. J. William Louda

Senior Scientist & Faculty

Ph.D., University of South Florida
blouda@fau.edu

Research interests: Environmental biogeochemistry, chlorophylls, carotenoids, phycobiliproteins and sunscreen pigments, microalgal community assessment and water quality.
   

 

Dr. Donna Chamely-Wiik

Assistant Scientist

Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University
dchamely@fau.edu

Research interests: Chemical education research.
   

 

Dr. Alberto Haces

Instructor

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
ahaces@fau.edu

   

 

Dr. Daniel Huchital

Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University
huchital@fau.edu

   

 

Dr. Krista Kasdorf

Director, General Chemistry I Lab and Visiting Instructor

Ph.D., Imperial College, London
kkasdorf@fau.edu

   

 

Dr. Evonne M. Rezler

Assistant Scientist

Ph.D., University of Sydney
erezler@fau.edu

Research interests: Spectroscopic studies of the mechanism of drug delivery by cell penetrating peptides and other biomolecular delivery systems.

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