Faculty Directory

With more than 120 researchers representing more than 16 countries around the world, and disciplines ranging from biomedical engineering to medicinal chemistry to fluorescence-guided surgery, our scientists bring a rich diversity of experience to pharmaceutical discovery. Working across disciplines and in collaboration with clinical partners, we develop and promote innovative drug candidates for cancer, neurological disorders, trauma, infectious diseases, immune disorders, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Image	Name	Email	Department	Program Area	Disease Area
	Aguilar, R. Claudio	claudio@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Altman, Ryan	raaltman@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Andrisani, Ourania	andrisao@purdue.edu	Basic Medical Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Axelrod, Abram	aaxelro@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Bao, Xiaoping	bao61@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Barker, Eric	barkerel@purdue.edu	College Of Pharmacy	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Bhunia, Arun	bhunia@purdue.edu	Department Of Food Science	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Bowman, Keith	kbowman@purdue.edu	Materials Engineering	Other	Other
	Briggs, Scott	sdbriggs@purdue.edu	Biochemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Infectious Disease and Cancer
	Buhman, Kimberly	kbuhman@purdue.edu	Nutrition Science	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Byrn, Stephen	sbyrn@purdue.edu	Industrial And Molecular Pharmaceutics	Other	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Cabot, Ryan	rcabot@purdue.edu	Animal Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Other	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Camarillo, Ignacio	ignacio@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Chester, Julia	jcheste@purdue.edu	Psychological Sciences
	Childress, Michael	mochildr@purdue.edu	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Chmielewski, Jean	chml@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, Other	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Chopra, Gaurav	gchopra@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Cooks, Graham	cooks@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Diagnostics	Cancer
	Cushman, Mark	cushman@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Das, Chittaranjan	cdas@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Immunology/Inflammatory/ Infectious Disease
	Davisson, Jo	davisson@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Drug design and synthesis, optimization, in vivo PK and formulations	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Dykhuizen, Emily	edykhui@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Figueiredo, Marxa	mlfiguei@purdue.edu	Basic Medical Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Flaherty, Daniel	dflaher@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Fortin, Jessica	fortinj@purdue.edu	Basic Medical Sciences	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, In Vivo Disease Models, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Diabetes, Neurological Disorders
	Foster, David	drfoster@purdue.edu	Department Of Pharmacy Practice	Diagnostics, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Freeman, Jennifer	jfreema@purdue.edu	Health Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Garcia, Edwin	redwing@purdue.edu	Materials Engineering	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations	Other
	Ghosh, Arun	akghosh@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Gore, Jay	gore@purdue.edu	Mechanical Engineering	Diagnostics	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Hall, Mark	mchall@purdue.edu	Biochemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Hazbun, Tony	thazbun@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Hill, Catherine	hillca@purdue.edu	Entomology	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Hockerman, Gregory	gregh@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Hogan, Daniel	hogandf@purdue.edu	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	Diagnostics, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models, Other	Other
	Hogenesch, Harm	hogenesch@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Hrycyna, Christine	hrycyna@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer
	Hu, Chang-Deng	hu1@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Huang, Rong	huang-r@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Hudmon, Andy	ahudmon@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Jeong, Hyun-Young	youngjeong@purdue.edu	Industrial And Physical Pharmacy	Target Discovery & Characterization, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Jiang, Qing	qjiang@purdue.edu	Nutrition Science	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Jiang, Wen	jiang12@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Kasinski, Andrea	akasinski@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Kihara, Daisuke	dkihara@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences/Computer Science	Target Delivery & Characterization, Other	Cancer, Other
	Kim, Kee Hong	keehong@purdue.edu	Department Of Food Science	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Kirchmaier, Ann	kirchmaier@purdue.edu	Biochemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Knapp, Deborah	knappd@purdue.edu	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Knipp, Greg	gknipp@purdue.edu	Industrial And Molecular Pharmaceutics	Delivery/Formulations, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Ko, Jeff	jcko@purdue.edu	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Other
	Krusemark, Casey	cjk@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Diagnostics, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer
	Kuang, Shihuan	skuang@purdue.edu	Animal Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Kuhn, Richard	kuhnr@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Other	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Lelievre, Sophie	lelievre@purdue.edu	Basic Medical Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Leung, Yuk Fai	yfleung@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models, Other	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Liceaga, Andrea	aliceaga@purdue.edu	Department Of Food Science	Target Discovery & Characterization	Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Lim, Seung-Oe	limsoe@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammation/Infectious Disease
	Lipton, Mark	lipton@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Liu, Julie	julieliu@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Diagnostics	Cancer
	Liu, Shuang	liu100@purdue.edu	Health Sciences	Diagnostics, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Cancer, Other
	Liu, Xing	xingliu@purdue.edu	Biochemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Lovinger, Gabriel		Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization
	Low, Philip	plow@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Diagnostics, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Luo, Zhao-Qing	luoz@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Lyon, Angeline	lyonam@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Other
	Mabe, Nathaniel	wmabe@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Matosevic, Sandro	sandro@purdue.edu	Industrial And Physical Pharmacy	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammation/Infectious Disease
	Mattoo, Seema	smattoo@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/ Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Mesecar, Andrew	amesecar@purdue.edu	Purdue Center For Cancer Research	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Mittal, Suresh	mittal@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Mohammed, Sulma	mohammes@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Nagy, Zoltan	zknagy@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Other	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	O'Brien, Valerie	vpobrien@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer Immunology/Inflammatory/ Infectious Disease
	Overholser, Brian	boverhol@purdue.edu	Department Of Pharmacy Practice	Target Discovery & Characterization	Other
	Park, Chiwook	chiwook@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Park, Kinam	kpark@purdue.edu	Biomedical Engineering	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Other
	Parkinson, Betsy	eparkins@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Paschou, Peristera	ppaschou@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Pienaar, Elsje	epienaar@purdue.edu	Biomedical Engineering	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, Systems Biology/Computational Biology	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Pinal, Rodolfo	rpinal@purdue.edu	Industrial And Molecular Pharmaceutics	Delivery/Formulations, Other	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Porterfield, D. Marshall	porterf@purdue.edu	Agricultural And Biological Engineering	Diagnostics	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Post, Carol	cbp@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Ramachandran, P.V.	chandran@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Ramkrishna, Doraiswami	ramkrish@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer
	Ratliff, Timothy	tlratliff@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Reklaitis, G.V.	greklait@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Delivery Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Rice, Christopher	carice@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Diagnostics, Target Discovery & Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Rochet, Jean-Christophe	jrochet@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Rossie, Sandra	srossie@purdue.edu	Biochemistry	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer
	Savaiano, Dennis	savaiano@purdue.edu	Nutrition Science	Delivery/Formulations	Other
	Savran, Cagri	savran@purdue.edu	Mechanical Engineering
	Shah, Kavita	kavitashah@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Target Discovery/Characterization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Shi, Riyi	riyi@purdue.edu	Basic Medical Sciences	Other	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Simpson, Garth	gsimpson@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Sintim, Herman	hsintim@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Smith, Daniel	smithdt@purdue.edu	Industrial And Molecular Pharmaceutics	Target Discovery & Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, Other	Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Sowinski, Kevin	ksowinsk@purdue.edu	Department Of Pharmacy Practice	Other	Other
	Stahelin, Robert	rstaheli@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Stauffacher, Cynthia	cstauffa@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery/Characterization	Cancer
	Tao, Andy	taowu@purdue.edu	Computer Science	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease
	Taylor, Lynne	lstaylor@purdue.edu	Industrial And Molecular Pharmaceutics	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Tesmer, John	jtesmer@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Other	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma, Other
	Thompson, Dave	davethom@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization, Delivery/Formulations, Target Discovery/Characterization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder, Metabolic Disorder
	Tisdale, James	jtisdale@purdue.edu	Department Of Pharmacy Practice	Other	Other
	Topp, Elizabeth	topp@purdue.edu	Industrial And Physical Pharmacy	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Trader, Darci	dtrader@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery/Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Uyeda, Christopher	cuyeda@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Vanhaezebrouck, Isabelle	ifvan@purdue.edu	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	Target Discovery & Characterization	Cancer
	Verma, Mohit	msverma@purdue.edu	Agricultural And Biological Engineering	Diagnositcs, Other	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Watts, Val	wattsv@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery/Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models, ADME/DMPK/Tox	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Wei, Alexander	alexwei@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Diagnostics, Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Wendt, Michael	mwendt@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Diagnostics, Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations, In Vivo Disease Models	Cancer
	Wilker, jon	wilker@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Other	Other
	Wirth, Mary	mwirth@purdue.edu	Chemistry	Diagnostics	Cancer
	Yang, Danzhou	yangdz@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Diagnostics, Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Cancer
	Yang, Yang	yangyang@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery & Characterization, In Vivo Disease Models	Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Yao, Yuan	yao1@purdue.edu	Department Of Food Science	Delivery/Formulations, Other	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Yeo, Yoon	yyeo@purdue.edu	Industrial And Physical Pharmacy	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Yuan, Chongli	cyuan@purdue.edu	Chemical Engineering	Diagnostics, Target Discovery/Characterization	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease, Neurological Disorder/Trauma
	Zhang, Guangjun	gjzhang@purdue.edu	Comparative Pathobiology	Target Discovery/Characterization	Cancer
	Zhang, Zhong-Yin	zhang-zy@purdue.edu	Medicinal Chem/Molecular Pharmacology	Target Discovery/Characterization, Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Cancer, Diabetes/Obesity/Metabolic Disease, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Zheng, Wei	wz18@purdue.edu	Health Sciences	Drug Synthesis/Optimization	Other
	Zhou, Daoguo	zhoud@purdue.edu	Biological Sciences	Target Discovery/Characterization, Delivery/Formulations	Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
	Zhou, Tony	tonyzhou@purdue.edu	Industrial And Physical Pharmacy	Delivery/Formulations	Cancer, Immunology/Inflammatory/Infectious Disease
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