Blum Group Team Members
Graduate Students and postdocs
Pía López
Allergan Fellowship, Dissertation Fellowship
Bryn Mawr College
B. A. — Chemistry
Vy Pham
University of California, Irvine
B. S. – Chemistry
Patrick McShea
Gebel Awardee
Marist College
B. S. – Chemistry
Sylvia Lou
Occidental College
B. A. – Chemistry
Yiqing Zhang
ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Student Travel Grant.
University of California, Irvine
B. S. – Chemistry
Alexis Ravenscroft
Outstanding 1st-year Teaching Assistant
West Virginia University
B. S. – Chemistry
Pegah Honarmand
Colby College
B. A. – Chemistry
Maxi Ledesma
University of Texas at Austin
B. S. – Biochemistry Honors
Roee Dagan
University of California, Davis
B. S. – Chemistry
Undergraduates
Jay Won
University of California, Irvine
GROUP ALUMNI
Graduate Students
Current Position
Dr. Hannah Peacock
Postdoctoral Scholar, Idaho National Laboratory
Dr. Erin Hanada
Postdoctoral Scholar, Meggers Group (Marburg University), recipient of Humboldt Fellowship
Dr. Antonio Garcia IV
Postdoctoral Scholar, Srivastava Group (UCLA), recipient of UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Chao Gao
Promega (R&D, Researcher)
Tristan Tagawa
Air Liquide (Scientist)
Dr. Adena Issaian
Palomar College (Assistant Professor)
Dr. Kim Ngan Tu
Orange Coast College (Adjunct Faculty)
Dr. Quinn T. Easter
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry (Senior Research Associate)
Dr. Darius Faizi
Tomlin Scientific (Director of Product Management)
Dr. Joshua J. Hirner
Catapower (Senior Scientist)
Dr. Katrina Roth
Ivy Tech Community College (Lecturer)
Dr. Melody Esfandiari
San Jose State University (Lecturer)
Dr. Jon Bass
AbbVie (Patent Agent)
Dr. Yilli Shi
Honeywell UOP (Principal Scientist)
Dr. Joseph Kaplan
Dr. Martin Stang
Postdoctoral Scholars
Current Position
Dr. Or Eivgi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Blasco Group (Heidelberg University)
Dr. David Josh Dibble
RxSite, Inc. (Senior Synthetic Organic Chemist)
Dr. Kristof Jess
Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Hassen Bel Abed
Eli Lilly (Senior Advisor)
Dr. Nozomi Saito
Astamuse (Consultant)
Dr. Kazuhiro Kitagawa
Showa Denko/Resonac (Research Scientist)
Dr. Eugene Chong
Boehringer Ingleheim (Research Scientist)
Dr. Mohammad Al-Amin
Research Scientist (Zentalis Pharmaceuticals)
Dr. Chao Feng
Element Biosciences (Research Scientist)
Dr. Neeladri Das
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (Professor)
Dr. Oscar Navarro
University of Portland (Research Professor)
Dr. Justin (Sung-gon) Lim
California State University, Long Beach (Lecturer)
Dr. Eva Hensle
Merck & Cie (Head of Quality Control)
Undergraduate Students
Current Position
David Gorial
AviSyn Pharma (Associate Scientist)
Scott Kim
Ph.D. Student, Schindler Group (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Stephen Ramgren
Research Scientist (Neurocrine Biosciences; PhD UCLA)
Valerie Lieberhaber
Dentist (University of Washington Medical Center)
Shawn Galven
Chemistry Teacher (Temescal Canyon High School)
Nicole Nava
Gilead Sciences (Research Associate)
Andreas Ehnbohm
Indiana University, Postdoctoral Fellow (after Ph.D. Student, Gladysz Group (TAMU))
Ashlee Davis
Eli Lilly (Advisor, after PhD, University of Michigan))
Visiting Students
Current Position
Dorothee Brandt
Doctoral student, University of Namur
Esteban Danloy
Master’s student, University of Namur
Andreas Hess
Postdoctoral Researcher, Trauner Group (University of Pennsylvania)
Shuichi Nakao
Researcher (Morinomiya Center, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology)
Akito Oogi
Researcher (Angel Japan Co.)
Eva Hahn
Assistant Technical Manager (Denso Europe)
Vanessa Trauschke
Consultant (Simon-Kucher & Partners)
Dr. Jasper H.M. van der Velde
Scientific Coordinator (CogniGron - University of Groningen)
Fiach Meany
PhD, then Pfizer Process Development, Ireland
Alexis Ravenscroft
PhD, UCI
David Calderon
Cal State San Bernardino
Visiting Professors
Prof. RJ Mycka (The Community College of Allegheny County)