We have three lab members leaving us at the end of July 2021, for which we are sad yet excited about their future prospects! Shamba Chatterjee joined the National Center for Natural Products Research at Ole miss, Matt Saucier joined the Delcamp group at Ole Miss, and Peggy McCluggage joined the NIH Postbac IRTA program. We wish you all the best!
The Roy laboratory is excited to welcome Hamdan Alferaei, 1st MS student, who joined in Spring 2020, Mario Djugovski, 1st year PhD, Lindsey Holt, Junior, and Micaela Shields, Sophomore started that joined in Fall 2020!
We extend our congratulations to Matt Saucier, Peggy McCluggage, and Micah Stewart for successfully defending their thesis and graduating with Honors in Biochemistry! The Class of 2020 will go down in history to face unprecedented challenges of COVID19, yet undeterred by the setbacks and committed to their vision forward!
Check out Sampad and Sweta’s work on fluorinated triazoles! It’s the first regioselective synthesis of 1,5-disubstituted-4-fluoro-triazoles. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/cc/c9cc09216a#!divAbstract
Congratulations to Sweta Adhikari for successfully defending her master’s thesis! Being the first member to join our team, Sweta has been instrumental in the evolution of the lab! Can’t wait to see what the future holds for Sweta!
We were sad to say goodbye to Sampad Jana but extremely happy to share that he will be joining Sygnature Discovery as a Senior Scientist ! Good luck Sampad Jana on your next adventure!
Ross Hodges, an early entry pharmacy student, joins the lab this Fall! We are excited to have you onboard!
Congratulations to Sweta Adhikari, graduate student in the Roy Lab, for winning the 2019 Nobel-Sam award given each year to the best graduate student in Medicinal Chemistry.
The TB team members are excited to receive NIH funding to develop narrow-spectrum chemotherapeutics to treat tuberculosis!