Charlie Zhang recently joined our team from Boston College. We are excited that you are contributing your talents to our drug discovery efforts and hope you enjoy the warmth & fun of the Chapel Hill area.

As we begin 2023, two new post-doctoral colleagues have recently joined our team. Welcome to Pawan Dhote and Feng Li! We are excited to work with you.

Feijun’s synthesis of the calabar bean alkaloid, phosovenine, has been published in The European Journal of Organic Chemistry as part of their special issue focused on synthetic electrochemistry!

We wish Amber all the best in her new “voyage” as an Assistant Professor at North Park University near Chicago. While we will miss all her positive energy in the lab, we know that numerous future organic chemistry students will … Read more

We are excited to have Jayachandra Rayadurgam, or “JC”, join us to discover new therapeutically relevant molecules. Thank you for contributing your talents to these efforts!

Feijun’s work on the divergent, electrochemical functionalization of cyclic amine derivatives is now available online at The Journal of Organic Chemistry! Way to go Feijun for all your rigorous efforts to understand the factors underlying the observed selectivity!

We are honored to have our research collaboration with the Sibley Lab highlighted in the current issue of Carolina Scientific, UNC’s premiere research magazine! Thank you Alisha Desai for your interest in writing about our research efforts!

Forest’s Honors Thesis on D1 dopamine receptor potentiators was accepted by the thesis committee earlier this month. Very proud of all that he has accomplished and we wish him a terrific final semester as he prepares for graduation and a … Read more

Amber Kelley has been selected to attend the 2021 Training in Neurotherapeutics Discovery and Development for Academic Scientists course, a rigorous short course on CNS drug discovery that is offered annually with tuition sponsored by NINDS (NIH) for all successful … Read more

The structure-activity relationship study on the pyrimidone series of dopamine D1 receptor positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) was just published in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters; many thanks to Prashi, Kadee and our collaborators in the Sibley Lab for all their … Read more