Principal Investigator
Professor Richard W. Roberts
Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Molecular and Computational Biology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics/MGH Department of Molecular Biology, 1993-1997
- Ph.D., Biophysical Chemistry, Yale University, 1993
- B.S., Chemistry, University of Kansas, 1987
- Email: richrob@usc.edu
Research Faculty
Professor Terry Takahashi
Assistant Professor (Research) of Chemistry
- Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology, 2005
- M.S., Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, California Institute of Technology, 2004
- B.A., Chemistry, Claremont McKenna College 1998
- Email: tttakahashi@usc.edu
Graduate Students
Chris Hughes
Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2018
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2016
- Research: Medicinal chemistry optimization of peptide inhibitors of huntingtin aggregation
- Out of Lab: Enjoys coffee shops and seeing movies
- Email: crhughes@usc.edu
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Tristan McPhail
Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2022
- B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019
- Research: Selection of Huntington’s Disease diagnostics
- Out of Lab: Enjoys traveling, hiking, reading, and spending time with her pets
- Email: tmcphail@usc.eduE
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Justin Ong
Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 2015
- Research: Therapeutics and diagnostics for cancer targets (PD-L1, Ras)
- Out of Lab: Enjoys video games, reality television, iced coffee
- Email: ongjusti@usc.edu
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Bud Parks
Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering
- B.E. Biological Engineering, Montana State University, 2021
- Out of Lab: Likes to run, hike, roller-blade, and listen to audio-books
- Email: ajparks@usc.edu
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Pearl Qi
Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California Irvine, 2023
- Out of Lab: Enjoys hiking, traveling, experiencing different cultures and food
- Email: zhenzhuq@usc.edu
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Colin Leaf
Ph.D. Student, Chemistry
- B.S. Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, 2021
- Out of Lab: Enjoys surfing
- Email: cleaf@usc.eduNO TEXT HER
Undergraduate Students
Scott Rankin
B.S. Student, Biochemistry (2024)
- Out of Lab: Enjoys tennis, reading, movies, and spending time with his pets
- Email: srankin@usc.edu