
People

DR. MING CHEN HAMMOND
Professor of Chemistry
Department Profile
Ming's CV
ming.hammond@utah.edu
LAB MEMBERS



NATHAN RICKS
Graduate Student
Chemistry
nathan.ricks@utah.edu
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MEGHAN RAINIER
Graduate Student
Chemistry
meghan.rainier@utah.edu

TYLER SIMONS
Graduate Student
Chemistry
tyler.simons@utah.edu

MADDIE MEYER
Graduate Student
Chemistry
madeline.meyer@utah.edu

JACKSON MUNN
Graduate Student
Chemistry
u0980923@utah.edu

MD ALAMGIR KABIR
Graduate Student
Chemistry
u1468847@utah.edu

DR. CINTHIA HERNANDEZ
Post Doc Researcher
Chemistry
u6059149@utah.edu
LAB ALUMNI
All Graduate Students
Dr. Colleen Kellenberger – NDSEG Fellowship; Postdoc at UNC (Lineberger Postdoctoral Fellow); Senior Manager at Abbvie
Dr. Scott Hickey – Postdoc at UCSF; Associate Director at Oxford Nanopore
Dr. Tania Gonzalez – Chancellor’s Opportunity Fellowship; Project Scientist at Cedar-Sinai
Dr. Xin Wang – Senior Director at Dascena
Dr. Zachary Hallberg – NSF Graduate Fellowship; Postdoc at UC Berkeley (K99 Pathway to Independence Award)
Dr. Yichi Su – CRCC Predoctoral Fellowship; Asst Prof, Fudan University
Dr. Todd Wright – Scientist at Seagen
Dr. Rebekah Kitto – Patent Agent at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Dr. Johnny Truong – Academic Evangelist at Benchling
Dr. Andrew Dippel – Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca
Kylee Christiansen – T32 ChemBio; at Teva Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Scott Squire - Senior Analytical Chemist at Adhesives Research
All Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Qian Qin – Associate Professor, Loyola University New Orleans
Dr. Rachel Senturia – Patent Attorney, Cooley LLP
Dr. Khiem Van Nguyen – Senior Researcher, Duy Tan University (Vietnam)
Dr. Debojit Bose – Principal Scientist, Regeneron
Dr. Jongchan Yeo – In memoriam
Dr. Zhesen Tan – Scientist III at Thermo-Fisher Scientific
Dr. Sudeshna Manna – Postdoc at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany)
Select Postbacc and Undergraduate Trainees
Dr. Alexander Westermann – Ph.D. University of Wuerzburg; Junior Professor at Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany)
Dr. Kathrin Leppek – Ph.D. German Cancer Research Center; Damon Runyon Fellow, Stanford; Assistant Professor (tenure track) at University of Bonn (Germany)
Dr. Madalee Wulf – Ph.D. Columbia; Research Scientist at NEB
Dr. Patrice Kurnath Connors – Ph.D. Utah; Assistant Professor, Colorado Mesa University
Dr. Geoffrey Liou – Ph.D. MIT; Research Scientist at Symbiobe
Dr. Pooja Vijayendra – M.D., Family Medicine Physician at Sutter Health
Dr. Jade Sales-Lee – Ph.D. UCSF; Scientist at Graphite Bio
Dr. Lynda Truong – Ph.D. NIH-Oxford; Strategy Lead at Novartis NIBR
Dr. Jiansong Xu – Ph.D. Penn State; Senior Scientist at ReviR Therapeutics
Dr. Xavier Aguilar – Ph.D., Northwestern; for Promega
Ryan Muller – Ph.D. student, UC Berkeley
Bao Nguyen – Medical student, UCSD
Cindy Lam – Research Associate II at Complete Genomics
Philipp Sanders – Ph.D. student, Scripps
Lucy Jiang – Senior Associate, Pfizer
Wyatt Anderson – Medical student, Case Western
Clara Inghelram – Research Scientist I at Novartis (Switzerland)
Bryan Bañuelos-Jara – Ph.D. student, Harvard
Hannah Rosenberg - Ph.D. student, Weill Cornell Medicine; Pharmacology
Olga Merino-Chavez - Ph.D. student, Stanford
Matthew Long - Ph.D. student, UNC Chapel Hill