Welcome to the E-Lab!
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(Back row, left to right:  Adam, Victor, Dr. Eagon, Slade, Ian, Addison & Audrey.  Front row, left to right:  Katherine & Ishi.  Not pictured:  Abby, Brenna & Justin.)

    Our research group focuses on the development of small molecule pharmaceuticals and probes, particularly those targeting infectious diseases and cancer.  Students are involved in all aspects of drug synthesis and pre-clinical development.  Our group is also interested in developing new synthetic methods to produce compounds quickly & with minimal purification in an effort to reduce development costs.  Students majoring in Chemistry, Biochemistry, or related majors are welcome to join, but two quarters of organic  chemistry lab are normally required to join due to the complexity of the chemistry involved.  Current projects include the development of kinase-based chemotherapy agents, biological probes to better understand disease-related proteins, new treatments to combat leishmaniasis, the development of host-orientated compounds to combat anthrax and the Ebola virus, and the development of new classes of antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections.

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Our lab is at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly).  We wish we could host our website on the calpoly.edu domain to share the profiles, publications and successes of our research team, but the university has refused to support or host our webpage.  Instead, we thank GitHub for their support of our lab and the open source docking resources we make available through our website.