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Current Members

Albert Bowers, Ph.D. principal investigator B.A. Art History, Univ. of Chicago Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Postdoc, Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School abower2@email.unc.edu	Jarrett Pelton (c/o 2019) graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, St. John Fisher College jpelton9@live.unc.edu
Emma Chow (c/o 2022) graduate student, Chemistry B.S. Chemistry, Rhodes College emmachow@unc.edu	Avery Huber (c/o 2022) graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Univ. of Minnesota avehuber@unc.edu
Matthew Ballard (c/o 2023) graduate student, Chemistry B.S. Chemistry, Wake Forest University ballmf17@unc.edu	Jie Ren, Ph.D. postdoc, biochemistry B.S. Chemistry, Hunan College Ph.D. Chemistry, Utah State University (PI: Jixun Zhan) jier@unc.edu
Jonathan Ellis, Ph.D. postdoc, enzymology B.S. Chemistry, Wichita State Univ. Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison (PI: Andrew Buller) jmellis4@unc.edu

Former Members

Nicoletta Economou, Ph.D. postdoc, structural biology B.S. Agricultural University of Athens Ph.D. Drexel University College of Medicine Current: Clinical Analytics Manager, BeiGene, Durham, NC	Walter Wever Solis, Ph.D. graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Texas Tech. Univ. M.S. Chemistry, Texas Tech. Univ. Current: Scientist II, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Scott Edward Allen, Ph.D. postdoc, computational chemistry B.S. Chemistry, Pennsylvania State Univ. Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania (PI: Marisa Kozlowski) Current: Patent Agent, Riverside Law, LLP, Wayne, PA	Rachel Bleich, Ph.D. graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Western Carolina Univ. Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Paul Himes, Ph.D. graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemical Engineering, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology Current: Senior Scientist, Sanofi, Holliston, MA	Swapnil Ghodge, Ph.D. postdoc, enzymology B.Tech. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Ph.D. Chemistry, Texas A&M Univ. (PI: Frank Raushel) Current: Senior Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Jon Bogart, Ph.D. graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Univ. Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Current: Scientist II, Life Edit Therapeutics, Durham, NC	Kelly Bird, Ph.D. graduate student, CBMC B.S. Biochemistry, Washington College Current: Senior Scientist, VitaKey, Durham, NC
Nicholas Kramer, Ph.D. postdoc, synthetic chemistry B.S. Ramapo College of NJ Ph.D. Chemistry, Florida State University (PI: Gregory Dudley) Current: Senior Scientist, Sterling Pharma Solutions, Cary, NC	Steven Fleming, Ph.D. (c/o 2015) graduate student, BBSP B.S. Biochemistry, Pepperdine University Current: Scientist 3, Genentech, San Francisco, CA
Matt Fleming, Ph.D. (c/o 2017) graduate student, BBSP B.S. Biochemistry, Pepperdine University Current: Postdoc, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA	Tory Haberman, Ph.D. (c/o 2017) graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Clemson University Current: Scientist I, Aktis Oncology, Durham, NC
Bree Iskandar, Ph.D. (c/o 2018) graduate student, BBSP B.S. Chemistry, Emory University Current: Senior Scientist, Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ	Matt Bowler, Ph.D. (c/o 2018) graduate student, CBMC B.S. Chemistry, Salisbury University Current: Senior Scientist, Johnson & Johnson, PA
Andrew Putz technician B.S. UNC Chapel Hill Current: Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD