Principal Investigator
Jianing Li Associate Professor in MCMP
Professor Li recieved her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics from Columbia University in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Richard Friesner. From 2011 to 2014, she was working as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Professor Gregory Voth at the University of Chicago. Before joining Purdue, Professor Li was an Assistant Professor in Chemistry during 2014-2020 and she was promoted to the associate professor position with tenure in 2020. In 2022, Professor Li joined Purdue in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (MCMP). Her research findings have led to 3 commercial software programs, 4+ patents/patent applications, and a start-up.
Current Group Members
- Nick Hamilton (UVM Chemistry Graduate Student)
- Subhadra Thapa (UVM Materials Science Graduate Student)
- Talon Hicks (Purdue MCMP Graduate Student)
- Chijian Xiang (Purdue Joint Graduate Student with Professor Ray A. Bressan in the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department)
- Ansul (Purdue MCMP Graduate Student)
- Bo Yang (Purdue MCMP Graduate Student)
- Yutong Shi (Purdue MCMP Graduate Student)
- Bharat Poudel (Visiting Scholar)
- Boyuan Liu (Purdue CS Research Assistant)
- Shreya Krishnan (Purdue Undergrad Researcher)
- Akarsh Ojha (Purdue Undergrad Researcher)
- Lewis Thuc Tran Phu (Purdue PharmD Researcher)
- Dr Yu Zhu (Postdoc)
- Dr Xu Ke (Postdoc)
- Dr Xianshi Liu (Postdoc)
Former Group Members
- Former Postdocs
- Dr Atena Farhangian (Postdoc 2022-2023.)
- Dr Jacob Remington (Postdoc 2019-2022. Senior Scientist at Evotec)
- Dr Mona Sharafi (Postdoc 2019-2021. NIH T32 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA)
- Dr Chenyi Liao (Postdoc 2014-2019. Researcher at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian, China)
- Dr Yong-Tao Ma (Postdoc 2017-2019. Assitant Professor at Shangdong University, Jinan, China)
- Dr David E. Heppner (Postdoc, co-advised with Prof. van der Vliet, 2015-2017. Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo)
- Dr Jiyuan Liu (Postdoc 2016. Associate Professor at Northwest A&F University, Xi'an, China)
- Former PhD/MS Students
- Mica Schenkelberg (Graduate Student 2021-2023. PhD Student at Aarhus University at Denmark)
- Dr Jonathon Ferrell (Graduate Student 2017-2023.)
- Dr Dillon McCarthy (Graduate Researcher 2016-2022. Postdoc at Johnson & Johnson, PA)
- Dr Kyle McKay (Graduate Researcher 2016-2021. Vernal Biosciences, VT)
- Dr Xiaochuan Zhao (Graduate Researcher 2015-2020. Scientist at WuXi AppTec, China)
- Former Undergraduate Students
- Marlo Zorman(Undergrad Technician 2018-2021. Now Graduate Student at the University of Washington, Seattle)
- Tyler Jaynes (Undergrad Researcher 2017-2018. Now Graduate Student at Northwestern University)
- Finley Clark (Undergraduate Student, 2020-2023. Now Graduate Student at Rice University)