Our Group

Current Members

Kathryn Skorey
Research Assistant
Former Senior Director at NuChem
Former Senior Biochemist at Merck Frosst
Tian Guan
Research Assistant
Imran Kazi
Post Doctoral Fellow
PhD with Prof. G. Sekar at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Jia-Hao Zeng
Post Doctoral Fellow
PhD with Prof. Zhuang-Ping Zhan at Xiamen University
Akram Hussain
Post Doctoral Fellow
PhD with Prof. D. B. Ramachary, University of Hyderabad, India
Kevin Lee
PhD
BSc University of Oxford, UK
Beka Boutin
PhD
BSc University of Guelph, Canada
MSc University of Guelph, Canada
Rebecca Kim
PhD
BSc University of Alberta, Canada
Kelly Tang
PhD
BSc McGill University, Canada
Yunxiang Yang (YY)
PhD
BSc University of Waterloo, Canada
MSc McGill University, Canada
Jacob Challenger
PhD
BSc in Chemistry, University of Lethbrige, Canada
Thais Perros
MSc Biochemistry
BSc King's College London, UK
Whapyoung Song
B.Sc. Hons. Undergraduate (Biochemistry)
McGill University, Canada
Edward Huang
B.Sc. Hons. Undergraduate (Biochemistry)
McGill University, Canada
Past Group Members and their Subsequent Career Paths

* From 1997 to 2003, Prof. Tsantrizos had a joint academic/industrial appointment at McGill University (as an Adjunct Professor) and at the pharmaceutical industry Boehringer Ingleheim.

However, from 2003 to 2008, she focused exclusively on her industrial career and did not supervise any students. She re-joined the Chemistry Department at McGill University in 2009.

Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Post Doctoral
  1. Mack Karachekhlian (05/2024 to 08/2024) – CHEM 396
    3rd year undergraduate Honours Chemistry, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  2. Edward Huang (05/2024 to 08/2024) – CHEM 396
    3rd year undergraduate Honours Biochemistry, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  3. Fuqing Jin (05/2023 to 08/2023) – CHEM 396
    3rd year undergraduate Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  4. Radina Koleva (05/2023 to 07/2023) – CHEM 470
    3rd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student (Biotechnology minor), McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  5. Angela Novakovic (09/2019 to 06/2020) – CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  6. Victoria Virgilio (05/2019 to 08/2019) – CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  7. Jonathan Bajohr (09/2018 to 05/2019) – BIOC 462 and BIOC 491 projects
    3rd year undergraduate Honour Biochemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at University of Toronto with Mark Lautens
  8. Kaitlyn Nelson (06/2018 to 08/2018) – CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  9. Vincent Trudel (05/2017 to 08/2017) – CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at University of Toronto with Andrei Yudin
  10. Peter Viereck (09/2016 to 06/2017) – Undergraduate Research Assistant
    3rd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at Princeton with Paul Chirik
  11. Peter Viereck (04/2016 to 08/2016) – CHEM 470
    3rd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  12. Charles Cole (09/2015 to 04/2016) – CHEM 470
    3rd year undergraduate Honour Chemistry student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD student in Chemistry at The University of Chicago with Prof. Scott A. Snyder
  13. Chrismita Hegde (09/2014 to 12/2014) – CHEM 396
    3rd year undergraduate Pharmacology student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, MSc student in Pharmacology at McGill University with Prof. Bastien Castagner
  14. Diego Seixas Gomes de Almeida (05/2014 to 08/2014) - CHEM 396 project
    2nd year undergraduate Chemistry exchange student, McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  15. Hugo de Vries (05/2014 to 08/2014) - CHEM 470 project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  16. Hugo de Vries (01/2014 to 04/2014) - CHEM 396 project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, MSc student in Holland
  17. Weiling Chiu(09/2013 to 04/2014) - research Project
    4th year undergraduate Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Current, PhD student at the Chemistry Department, University of British Colombia with Professor Jennifer Love.
  18. Weiling Chiu(04/2013 to 08/2013) - CHEM 396 project
    3rd year undergraduate Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  19. Kristina Wolf (09/2013 to 03/2014) - visiting student
    M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
  20. Alejandra Dominguez-Huerta (09/2013 to 12/2013) - CHEM 396
    3rd year undergraduate Chemistry exchange student at McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at McGill Universtity with Prof. C.J. Li
  21. Mark Sasson (09/2013 to 05/2014) - CHEM 470 project
    4th year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Current, medical student at McGill University.
  22. Mark Sasson (05/2013 to 08/2014) - NSERC summer project
    4th year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Current, medical student at McGill University.
  23. Hyungjun (Cookie) Cho (05/2012 to 08/2012) - summer research project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Current, graduate student at the Chemistry Department, University of Toronto
  24. Zheping Hu (01/2012 to present) - BLOC 491 project
    3rd year undergraduate honors Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, student in Medical School at Stony Brook University, NY
  25. Zheping Hu (09/2011 to 12/2011) - BLOC 462 project
    2nd year undergraduate honors Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
  26. Kim Apperley (06/2011 to 08/2011) - CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Ottawa
  27. J. Shaw (05/2011 to 08/2011) - NSERC Summer Project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, medical student, University of Ottawa
  28. Hyungjun (Cookie) Cho (05/2011 to 08/2011) - CHEM 470
    2nd year undergraduate honor Chemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Toronto
  29. Wing Ting (Winnie) Chan (05/2011 to 08/2011) - BLOC 462 project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate in Pharmacology student at UBC
  30. Joseph Shaw (01/2011 to 05/2011) - BLOC 491 project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Medical student, University of Ottawa
  31. Joseph Shaw (09/2010 to 12/2010) - BLOC 462 project
    3rd year undergraduate honor Biochemistry student McGill University (B.Sc. degree)
    Medical student, University of Ottawa
  32. Joulien Poupart (06-08/2010)
    2nd year undergraduate chemistry student at the University of Montreal (B.Sc. degree)
    Currently, PhD graduate student in Chemistry at University of Montreal with William Lubel
  33. Serge Zaretsky (05-08, 2009) summer student
    Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto with Professor Andrei K. Yudin
  34. Andrew McClory (09/1997 to 04/1998 and 05-08/1998)
    Ph.D. at Stanford University with Professor Barry M. Trost
    PDF at California Institute of Technology with Professor Brian M. Stoltz
    Research Scientist, Genentech
  35. John Mancuso (09/1997 to 04/1998)
    Ph.D. at the University of Toronto with Professor Mark Lautens
    PDF at the University of Pittsburgh with Professor Dennis Curran
    Senior Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry; Methylgene Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada
  36. Marie-Claire Wilson (05-08/1997)
    Technician; Merck Frosst (Canada) Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada.
  37. Lee D. Fader (09/1996 to 04/1997)
    Ph.D. at McGill Univ. with Professor Youla S. Tsantrizos
    PDF at ETH with Professor Eric Carrera
    Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry; Boehringer Ingelheim R&D, Laval, QC, Canada
  38. Chris Wilds (09/1994 to 04/1995)
    Ph.D. at McGill University with Prof. Masad Damha
    PDF Vanderbilt University with Professor Martin Egli and Johns Hopkins University with Professor Paul S. Miller Associate Professor, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
  39. Elizabeth Jarvo (05-08/1995)
    Ph.D. at Boston College with Professor Scott J. Miller
    PDF at Harvard University with Professor Eric N. Jacobsen
    Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
  40. John Tweddell (05-08/1994)
    Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Professor Gregory C. Fu
  41. Mike Ghioureliotis (05-08/1994)
    M.Sc. / Ph.D. in Engineering at McGill University with Professor James A. Nicell
  42. Ali Berkin (09/1992 to 04/1993)
    Ph.D. at Queen's University with Professor Walter A. Szarek
    PDF at National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Scientific Advisor, Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP, New York City, NY, USA
  43. Selena Boothroyd (05-08/1993)
    Ph.D. at University of Utah with Professor Fred G. West
  44. Paul Tiseo (05-08/1992)
    MD-Ph.D. at Cornell University
  1. Ifenna Mbaezue (Ph.D. 17/2024)
    Currently: Post Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Germany
  2. Yuting Feng (Ph.D. 17/2022)
    Currently: Research Scientist at Gilead Sciences, Edmonton, AB
  3. Mengjin Gao (M.Sc. 20/2021)
    Currently: Ph.D. student at the Institute of Parasitology, McGill University
  4. Felix Vincent (M.Sc. 09/2018)
    Currently: working at Collège Universel - Campus Gatineau
  5. Florian Ville (Co-supervised M.Sc. 02/2017 - 07/2017) at University of Orleans, Cedex, France
    Currently: Ph.D. student in Paris
  6. Xue Bin (M.Sc. in Biochemistry 2017)
    Currently: Ph.D. student in Biochemistry at Concordia University
  7. Cyrus Matienzo Lacbay (Ph.D. 2017)
    Currently: Research Scientists, Evonik Canada Inc, Vancouver, BC
  8. Dimitrios Xanthopoulos (M.Sc. 2016)
    Currently: Pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the University of Athens
  9. W. Sebastian Draxler (Co-supervised M.Sc. 09/2014 - 02/2015) at Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
    Currently: Pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach, Germany
  10. Viviane Ta (M.Sc. 2015)
  11. Kristina Wolf (Co-supervised M.Sc. 09/2013 - 02/2014) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München (LMU), Munich, Germany
    Currently: Pursuing a degree in Pharmacy
  12. Chun Yuen Leung (M.Sc.2016)
    Research Scientist, NuChem
  13. Yih-Shyan Lin (Ph.D. 2014)
    Research Scientist, Institute of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research, National Health Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan
    Senior Research Scientist, Aprinoia Therapeutics
  14. Demetrios Gritzalis (M.Sc. 2014)
    Scientist II, Immunochemistry at Charles River
  15. Adrienne Langille (M.Sc. 2013)
    Currently: Dentist
  16. Joris De Schutter (Ph.D. 2013)
    PDF at MIT with Prof. Barbary Imperiali
    Currently: Manager, Scientific and Competitive Analysis, Takeda Oncology, Boston, USA
  17. E. Myers (M.Sc. 2003)
    Ph.D. at the University of Bristol with Professor Varinder Aggarwal
    Currently: Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, NUI Galway, Ireland
  18. Lee D. Fader (Ph.D. 2002)
    NSERC Post Doctoral Fellow at the ETH with Professor Eric Carrera
    Senior Research Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd. R&D, Laval, Quebec
    Currently: Associate Director of Chemistry, Inception Science
  19. Xian-Shu Yang (Ph.D. 2000)
    PDF in Biochemistry at University of Montreal
    Senior Principal Scientist at Merck, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  20. Michael Boyd (M.Sc. 1999)
    Research Associate II at Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., Kirkland, Quebec (up to 2010)
    Senior Research Associate, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  21. Jacqueline Lunetta (M.Sc. 1997)
    Research Associate at Wyeth Canada Inc.(now Pfizer), Montreal, Quebec
    Technical Sales Representative at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Cole Parmer Canada Division
  22. Z. Zhou (M.Sc. 1996)
    Research Chemist II, MethylGene Inc., Montreal, Quebec
  23. S. Pischos (M.Sc. 1996)
    Research Scientist at Phoenix Int. Life Sciences
  24. Fei Zhou (M.Sc. 1995)
    Senior Research Associate at AstraZeneca R&D, Boston, MA (1995-2004)
    Senior Research Scientist at X-Chem Pharmaceutical Inc. Waltham, MA (2014-present)
  25. Parsa Famili (M.Sc. 1993)
    President and CEO of Novatek International
  26. Xiao-Jin Xu (M.Sc. 1993)
    Research Assistant at Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  1. Chandra Shekar (Post Doctoral Fellow; 11/2019 to 08/2021)
  2. Pavel Fedoseev (Post Doctoral Fellow; 09/2019 to 07/2021) Currently: Head of the Science Department, MIR School; Vladimir oblast, Dobrograd (Russia)
  3. Yi He (Post Doctoral Fellow; 11/2019 to 12/2020) Currently: Assistant Professor, Chemistry Deaprtment, Chongqing Medical University
  4. Jaeok Park (Post Doctoral Fellow/Research Associate; 11/2017 to 07/2019) Currently: Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, Memorial University
  5. Karunakar Reddy Bonepally (Post Doctoral Fellow; 09/2017 to 03/2019) Currently: Research Scientist, NuChem Therapeutics
  6. Ming Lei Yuan (Post Doctoral Fellow; 09/2017 to 05/2019) Currently: Research Scientist in China
  7. Zhi Zhou (Post Doctoral Fellow; 08/2016 to 07/2017) Currently: 5-year contract as Senior Research Associate (leading into a tenure position) at Guangzhou Medical University
  8. Shiguang Li (Post Doctoral Fellow; 08/2015 to 07/2018) Research Scientist at Zamboni Solutions
  9. Alexios Matralis (Post Doctoral Fellow; 10/2013 to 10/2016) Initially: Research Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline. Currently: Research Scientist at the Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Alexander Fleming Institue, Greece
  10. Michail Tsakos (Post Doctoral Fellow; 09/2015 to 07/2016) Research Associate in Chemistry at Yale University in the group of Prof. Seth Herzon)
  11. Guillermo Fernandez De Troconiz (Post Doctoral Fellow; 04/2014 to 03/2015) Senior Research Scientist, Kemin, Brazil
  12. Olivier Leogane (Post Doctoral Fellow; 01/2011 to 01/2012); Safety office, University of Montreal
  13. John Mancuso (Research Associate; 06/2009 to 02/2010)
    Director, NuChem Therapeutics
  14. Warren Chew (Post Doctoral Fellow 96)
    Senior Research Scientist at Wyeth Canada Inc. (now Pfizer), Montreal, QC