Washington University Department of Chemistry
Alumni

These are some of the alumni of our Ph.D. program, listed by
major advisor and year of graduate.

Name

Ph.D.

Position

Ackerman, Joseph, J. H.

Bruce Berkowitz 6/87 Tenured Faculty, Wayne State Univ, Detroit
Coleen Bosch 6/88 Postdoc, WU Chem; then Homemaker
Seong-Gi Kim 12/88 Tenured Faculty, U of Minnesota Med School
Sheng-Kwei Victor Song 5/90 Senior Scientist, WU Chemistry
Wei Chen 11/90 Tenured Faculty, U of Minnesota Med School
Janice Gard (U of I) Staff, Pharmacia
Linda Meeh 5/92 Staff Scientist at Vitek, St. Louis
Xiaoqing Yang 6/93 Staff, NuMega Corporation, CA
Tedros Bezabeh 8/93 Staff, Nat'l Res Inst of Canada, Winnipeg
Chung-Yi Hong 10/97 Postdoc, Biomedical SC Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Timothy Quyen Duong 4/98 Faculty, U of MA Medical School
Paul Schornack 5/98 Research Asst. Prof., Dept. of Biology, U. of Pittsburgh
William (Bill) Spees 1/99 Staff, Washington University Chemistry
James Quirk 2002 Senior Scientist, Pharmacia
Benhur Ogbay 4/03 Postdoc, Rice University

Bashkin, James K.

Laura Bass 8/94 Postdoc, Washington U. School of Med School
Lisa Jenkins 5/96 High School Teacher, Riverview Gardens
Jin Xie 7/96 Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Daniher 7/97 Postdoc, Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals,Boulder, CO
George Yeh 8/97 Sigma-Aldrich
Trey Putnam 8/99 Staff Scientist, Midwest Research Institute
Todd Osiek 2/00 Staff Scientist, Metaphore Corp.
Bobby Trawick 2/00 Staff Scientist, Metaphore Corp.

Bleeke, John R.

John Kotyk 9/86 Staff, Monsanto
Mary Hays 3/87 Staff, Aristech Co., PA
Wei-Jun Peng 7/87 Staff, Union Carbide, WV
Dennis Moore 7/87 Staff, Mallinckrodt, MO
Suzanne Saum 12/87 Faculty, Lindenwood College
Andrew Donaldson 12/87 Solutia, St. Louis
David Rauscher 8/89 Staff, Fina Chemical, TX
Robert Wittenbrink 5/90 Staff, Exxon, TX
Patricia Earl 10/90 High School Teacher, IL
Feng Xie 8/91 Staff, Neurocrine Biosciences, CA
Tesfamichael Haile 8/92 Faculty, Asmara U. Eritrea
Pamela Rae New 8/93 Faculty Central Oklahoma
Michael Ortwerth 8/94 Staff FDA, Wash DC,
Alicia (Rohde) Beatty 8/94 X-ray Facility Director at Kansas State U.
Scott Luaders 8/94 Faculty, Quincy University, IL
Jonathan Blanchard 8/97 Law School Student, U. of Kentucky
Robert Behm 3/99 Postdoc, WU School of Medicine
Paul Hinkle 2001 PostDoc, Exxon, Mobile, TX
Edward Donnay 2002 Visiting Asst. Professor, Furman Univ.

Buhro, William E.

Michael Matchett 12/93 Research Scientist, Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, CA
Joanna Crane 8/94 Faculty, Univ. of Puget Sound
Susan Bates 8/94 Faculty, Ohio Northern Univ
Timothy Trentler 5/97 Materials Development Team, InPhase Tech., CA
Kathleen Hickman 8/97 Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Dulles VA
Joel Haber 9/97 Asst. Prof., University of Alberta, Edmonton
Jennifer Hollingsworth 11/99 Technical Staff Member, LANL @ NREL
Paul Markowtiz 8/00 Sr. Process Engineer, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Sean Dingman 8/00 Market Segment Manager, SAFC Hitech (in St. Louis)
Heng Yu 8/03 Postdoc, IBM Watson Research Center
Carolyn Jones Otten 4/04
Fudong Wang 2007

Gaspar, Peter P.

John Bookstaver 7/86 Faculty, St. Charles Community College
Deqing Lei 5/88 Postdoc, U of New Mexico
Manchao Xiao 10/88 Industrial position in U.S.
Paula Miller (Young) 12/88 Group Leader, Monsanto
Mary Streigel 5/89 Conservation Inst. N.W. Louisiana St. Univ
Janet Braddock Wilking 10/90 Res. Asst. Prof., U of MO at STL
Kevin Bobbit 11/90 Staff, REXAM Release, Chicago
Sigfredo Gonzales 5/90 Staff, Osi Specialties, Inc.
Xinhua Li 5/94 Postdoc, Harvard
Dan Berger 4/95 Professor, Bluffton College
Hu Qian 12/98 Postdoc, Penn State
Ping Jiang 08/02 Postdoc, U. of Chicago
Dong Zhou 05/04 Postdoc, Washington University School of Medicine

Gilbertson, Scott R.

Guohua Chen 6/95 Allied Signal
Robert Pawlick 9/95 Applications Consultant, SAP America, Inc.
Sandra Drabik 1/97 Magellan Pharmaceuticals
Cheng-Wei Tom Chang 5/97 Faculty, Utah State Univ
Xifang Wang 8/97 Staff, Epix, Cambridge, MA
Gale Starkey 3/98 Visiting Asst. Prof. SIUE
Omar Diego Lopez 5/98 Staff Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CT
Garrett S. Hoge, III 6/98 Sr. Research Chemist, Pfizer
Carolyn Cohran 2002 Postdoc, National Cancer Center
Ping Lan 2002 Postdoc, Pharmacia
Anton Agarkov 10/02 Senior Scientist, Chemistry Diversity Labs, San Diego
Brent DeBoef 4/03 Postdoc, Columbia
Scott Greenfield 7/03
Eric Uffman 1/04 Postdoc, WU Chemistry

Gross, Michael L.

Jaeman Byun 10/96 Research Asst Prof WU School of Medicine
Zhen Wang MS, 96 Mass spectrometrist, Merck, Rahway, NJ
Andy Whitehill 96 Ph.D. from U of NE, Tech Rep., Micromass, The Instrumentation People, Ltd.
Olga Nemirovskiy 4/98 Staff, ABC Labs
Chengyu Cheng 9/98 Staff, ABC Labs
Xia Katty Wan 7/00 Mass Spectrometrist, Abbott Labs, Chicago
Yinsheng Wang (joint with John Taylor) 01 Faculty, U of California-Riverside
LiKang Zhang 01 Mass Spectrometrist, Schering-Plough Research Institute
Mei Zhu 2004 Scientist, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Gross, Richard W.

Han Xianlin 5/90 Asst. Professor, Washington U Med School, Res. Instructor
Xi Chen 4/92 Postdoc, WU School of Medicine
Youchen Zeng 4/98 Postdoc, WU School of Medicine
Xiang Su 1/04 Postdoc, WU School of Medicine
Jingyue Yang 5/04

Gutsche, David

Keat-Aun See 6/91 Postdoc, U Twentue Ensched Nitherlands
Donald Stewart 5/97 Postdoc, Texas Christian University

Holten, Dewey

Dongho Kim 8/84 Group Leader, Korean Institute of Science and Technology
Kirsten Bopp Brewing Research Group, Anheuser-Busch
Drew Tait 9/84 Staff, Los Alamos National Lab
Leanne Levine 12/86 Staff, Monsanto
Lynda McDowell 3/91
Osman Bilsel 8/91 Research Faculty, Penn State
Steve Gentemann 8/94 Assistant Professor, Southwestern Illinois College
Laurent Laporte 7/95
Lisa Wittmer 5/96 Postdoc, Duke University
Robin Lammi 2001 Postdoc, UT-Austin
Jennifer Retsek 2002 Lecturer, CA State Univ. - Fresno

Holtzer, Alfred M.

Jianming Mo 5/92 Monsanto

Jean, John, M.

Sandra Schultz 3/96 Postdoc, Tufts University
Gregory Bradnurn 8/96 Staff Scientist, AMP-Tyco

Lin, Tien-Sung Tom

Jui-Lin Ong 8/91 Washington U Med School
Tran-Chin Yang 1/00 Postdoc, Wash U Med School

Macias, Edward S.

Luis Vasconcelos 12/95 Consultant, Spectrum Latino America

Moeller, Kevin D.

Christine Hudson 4/93 Therm-O-Disc, Mansfield, OH
Poh Lee Wong 5/93 Wash U Business School
Luzviminda Tinao Wooldridge 5/93 Scientist, Warner-Jenkins
Dallas New 5/94 Faculty, Central Oklahoma
Cathleen Hanau 5/95 Chemist, Monsanto Co., St. Louis
Zerom Tesfai 2/96 Research Scientist, Exelixis, San Francisco
Yvette Patmore Fobian 12/96 Chemist, Monsanto, St. Louis
Dean Frey 2/98 Research Scientist, Albany Molecular
Yun Song Tong 4/98 Postdoc, Eli Lilly
Robert Long 12/98 Temp. Faculty - SIUE
Laura Matson Beal 10/01 Faculty, Mount Union College
Jill Simpson 12/99 Mkt. Rep, Bayer Inc., Pittsburg
Angela Sutterer 12/00 Dow Chemical
Bin Liu 2001 Sr. Research Scientist, Locus Pharmaceuticals,Philadelphia
Shengquan Duan 1/03 Research Scientist, Albany Molecular
Haizhou Sun 7/03 Postdoc, Southwest Texas Medical Center
John Mikelcic 9/03 Staff Scientist, Mallinkrodt
Yongmao Sun 4/04
John Brandt 2007 Pfizer

Sarantites, Demetrios G.

Daniel Stracener 5/93 Staff, Oak Ridge Natl Lab
Fritz Lerma 11/99 Clinical Radiology, Wash U. Med School

Schaefer, Jacob

Yong Pan 5/91 Staff, Procter and Gamble
Mobae Afeworki 7/91 NIH
Allyson Christiansen 5/92 High School Teacher
Susan Holl 3/93 Intel
P. Lani Lee 5/93 Research Assoc. Mass General Hospital
Wenlian Zhu 8/94 Postdoc, Johns Hopkins Med. School
Gang Tong 9/96 Postdoc, Duke University
Matthew Merritt 10/96 Postdoc, U of Washington
Markus Hoffman 12/97 Postdoc, Pacific Northwest Nat'l. Lab
Orsolya Toke 12/02 Postdoc, WU Medical School
Thomas Weldegiorghis Postdoc, U. Georgia
Harvey Fields 6/04 WU Student Services
Lynette Cegelski 7/04 Postdoc, WU Medical School

Sobotka, Lee G.

James Dempsey 3/97 Asst. Prof., Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florida College of Medicine

Taylor, John-Stephen A.

Ian Brockie 5/89 Staff, Sigma, St. Louis, MO
Rushdi Alul 5/89 Genetrak, IL
Christine O'Day 9/89 Staff, Oridigm, Seattle, WA
Michael Cohrs 5/90 Armour Pharmaceutical, IL
Dan Garrett 9/90 Staff, NIH
Dan Svoboda 6/91 Faculty, U of Montreal
Michelle Schmidt 4/91 Staff, Mallinckrodt, MO
Jill Zitzewitz 11/91 Postdoc, Penn State, PA
Nan Jiang 11/92 Staff, Pharmingen Corp., CA
Cheng-I Wang 12/92 Research Scientist Neurex, Menlo Park, CA
Colin Smith 12/93 Postdoc, U of CA, Gladstone Inst. of Virology
Lisa Kroutil 5/94 Asst. Prof., U of Wisconsin River Falls
Jeanette Hill 5/94 Postdoc, Washington U Med School, MO
Shang Yin 8/94 Postdoc, Nat'l. Inst. of Environmental Health Sci, NC
Xiaodong Zhao 6/95 Research Scientist, Amersham-Pharmacia
Phil Ordoukhanian 97 Postdoc, Scripps Inst., CA
Jianquan Liu 4/98 Postdoc Wash U Chemistry
Mu Wang 4/98 Faculty, Indiana School of Medicine
Yueqing Jing 11/98 Postdoc, Monsanto Co.
Jody Lingbeck 8/00 Postdoc, Washington U Med School
Yingie Ren 12/00 Research Associate, Monsanto
Yinsheng Wang 05/01 Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Kayiang Zhang 05/01 Research Scientist, Orchid Biosciences, NJ
Wei Li 06/01 Research Scientist, Danforth Foundation
Zhaochun Ma 08/02 Research Scientist, Applied Biosystems, Inc., CA
Liping Sun 07/03 Postdoc, WU School of Medicine
Bich Vu 2007

Welch, Michael J.

Paul Chesis 8/90 Staff, Deweese Radiological Group, Inc, Mission, KS
Henry van Brocklin 8/90 Chief Chemist, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, CA
Susan Madsen (Wallace) 8/90 GE Medical Systems
Carol Breaux Wiegers 9/92 Postdoc, U of Tx, Dallas Richardson, TX
Teresa Jones Wilson 5/95 Asst. Professor, Ashland University
Buck Rogers 5/95 Asst. Professor, U of Al at Birmingham
Thomas Bonasera 5/95 GlaxoSmithKline PET Team
Jian Zhang 6/96 Staff, Sagent Tec, Inc., CA
Stephanie Jonson 4/98 Postdoc, Washington U Med School
Joanna Downer 10/98 Asst. Dir. of Science Communication, John Hopkins
Heather Bigotti 2004 Postdoc, U.M. Columbia
Amy Vavere 2004 Head of Radiochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Wooley, Karen L.

Daniel Bolton 3/98 Staff Scientist, Bayer Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Bruce Thurmond 3/98 Staff Scientist, Monsanto, MO
Jennifer Marrise Weinberg 6/98 Staff Scientist, Bayer Inc., Pittsburgh,PA
Anja Mueller 8/98 Postdoc, U of Arizona
Qi Zhang 08/01 Graduate Student in Computer Science
Min Wang 05/01  
Qinggao Ma 01/02 Staff Chemist, Crompton Corp., CT
Qi Zhang 2002 Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Christopher G. Clark 2002 NSF Postdoc Fellow, Maxplanck Inst., Mainz, Germany
Matthew Becker 6/03 Postdoc, NIST, MD
Chakravarthy Gudipati 8/04 Postdoc, Clemson University
David Germack 2007 Postdoc, NIST
Brooke Van Horn 2007 Postdoc, Princeton
Shrinivas Venkataraman 2007 Singapore
Zhiyun Chen 2007 Research Scientist, Rhodia, Inc.

Thomas Vaid

Julie Anne Cissell 2007
William Porter 2006

Yaris, Robert

Chris Kirmaier 12/88 Research Associate Professor, Washington U.
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