Rommie Amaro has accepted an Assistant Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California at Irvine, to begin in 2009.
Andy McCammon has been appointed editor of Quarterly Reviews in Biophysics, published by Cambridge University Press.
Three more postdocs have accepted new faculty positions -- congratulations!
Donald Hamelberg will be Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Zeyun Yu will be Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Yongcheng Zhou will be Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University.
Congratulations to Mikolai Fajer, who has been awarded a prestigious NSF predoctoral fellowship.
Congratulations to former postdoc, Sanjib Senapati, who has been awarded a BOYSCAST Fellowship by the Government of India for a sabbatical in our group this summer. Sanjib is currently Assistant Professor at the IIT-Madras.
Congratulations to graduate student Paul Gasper, who has won the 2008-9 Kamen/Kaplan Fellowship from UCSD. This fellowship is provided by the Agouron Institute to honor two of the early members of the UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Martin Kamen and Nathan Kaplan. Kamen was co-discoverer of the isotope carbon-14, and Kaplan was a pioneering enzymologist and cancer researcher.
Congratulations to Adam Van Wynsberghe, who has been awarded an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Congratulations to former postdoc Shankar Submaraniam, upon winning the 2008 UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Research in Science and Engineering. Shankar is Professor of Bioengineering at UCSD.
A warm welcome to Jingfang Huang, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jingfang has joined our group during his sabbatical leave.
Congratulations to Xiaolin Cheng, who is moving on to become Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Tennessee and Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Stewart Adcock, who has been named Vice President of Software Development for MEDIT, a molecular modeling company based in Europe.
J. Andrew McCammon received the "2008 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research."
Link to the article in the Feb 11 issue of Chemical & Engineering News:
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i06/html/8606awards4.html
12 October 2007: FDA approves Isentress (raltegravir), first in a new class of antiviral drugs for HIV/AIDS.
Link to the story at the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/10/13/MN4VSP4RQ.DTLMerck & Co. has a news release at:
http://www.merck.com/newsroom/press_releases/product/2007_1012.html
Congratulations to former postdoctoral fellows Kay Hamacher, appointed as a professor and head of Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt; and Willy Wriggers, appointed as Research Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research.
Congratulations to former undergraduate researcher Barry Smith, appointed as visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine.
September 5, 2007: FDA panel unanimously recommends accelerated approval of first in a new class of drugs for HIV/AIDS. The new
drug, Merck's Isentress (raltegravir), inhibits the HIV integrase enzyme. A key aspect of the mechanism of this drug was discovered by
computer simulations in the McCammon group, as described in the paper by Schames et al. (2004) [see the list of group publications on
this site]. A press release from Merck on the new drug can be found at:
http://www.merck.com/newsroom/press_releases/research_and_development/2007_0905.html
Congratulations to current and former group members who are moving on to new faculty positions:
Chia-En Chang will become Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Riverside.
Paul de Bakker will become Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Cameron Mura will become Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
Congratulations to two more graduate students who have completed their Ph.D. studies:
Yuhui Cheng successfully defended his thesis work on June 1, and will continue as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD working in Mike Holst's group (mathematics) as well as in our group.
David Minh successfully defended his thesis work on June 4, and will pursue postdoctoral study at the National Institutes of Health.
Congratulations to Dave Cerutti, who successfully defended his PhD on May 10. Dave will postdoc with former group member Terry Lybrand at Vanderbilt University.
Congratulations to Frank Brown, who has been awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar, and who is being awarded tenure and promotion in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara.
Congratulations to former graduate student Regis Pomes, who is being awarded tenure and promotion in Biochemistry at the University of Toronto and in the Research Institute of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
Congratulations to former postdoc Dave Sept, who is being awarded tenure and promotion in Biomedical Engineering at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Congratulations to Nathan Baker, who received early tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis.
Congratulations to Dimitri Morikis, Professor of Bioengineering, UC Riverside, on his election as Fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science
Congratulations to Jack Tanner, who has been promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri at Columbia.
Congratulations to Jennifer Bui, who has been elected a Fellow of Hughes Hall at Cambridge University.
Congratulations to former group member Jens Nielsen, who is being promoted to Sr. Lecturer at the University College, Dublin, Ireland
Congratulations to current and recent group members!
Rommie Amaro was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to study in the McCammon group at UCSD.
Jennifer Bui was awarded an NSF postdoctoral fellowship to study in the Dobson group at University of Cambridge.
Heather Carlson has been awarded tenure at the University of Michigan.
Adrian Elcock has been awarded tenure at the University of Iowa.
Dimitri Morikis has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of California, Riverside.
Jessica Swanson was awarded an NIH postdoctoral fellowship to study in the Voth group at University of Utah.
Willy Wriggers has been awarded tenure at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Dave Cerutti has been awarded the Teddy Traylor GraduateFellowship by the UCSD Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This fellowship is awarded to highly successful graduate research scientists to assist them in the pursuit of their studies and for travel to scholarly meetings.
Article on "Coupling hydrophobicity, dispersion, and electrostatics in continuum solvent models" published in Physical Review Letters
HHMI News article, "Computer Simulation Hints at New HIV Drug Target"
Acetylcholinesterase article featured on the November cover of PLos Computational Biology