ETB Teams

• Adenine Team
• Guanine Team
• Thymine Team

Adenine Team

Scientific Areas of Focus

• Cancer
• Deubiquitinating enzymes
• Epigenetics
• DNA damage and replication
• Infectious diseases

Team Members

Biology Team Lead: Anton Simeonov, Ph.D.
Chemistry Team Lead: Juan Marugan, Ph.D.

Research Scientists:

• Bolormaa Baljinnyam, Ph.D., biology
• Ganesha Bantukallu, chemistry
• George Dorjsuren, biology
• Xin Hu, Ph.D., informatics
• Sankalp Jain, Ph.D., informatics
• Dan Jansen, chemistry
• Steve Kales, Ph.D., biology
• Diane Luci, M.S., chemistry
• Natalia Martinez, Ph.D., biology
• Katie Pohida, chemistry (Intramural Research Training Award fellow)
• Hongmao Sun, Ph.D., informatics
• Shyh-Ming Yang, Ph.D., chemistry
• Adam Yasgar, biology

Guanine Team

Scientific Areas of Focus

• Cancer
• Enzymatic assays
• Kinases
• Metabolic targets (cancer and inborn errors of metabolism)
• Cellular thermal shift assays
• High-throughput cell-based models and high-content screening

Team Members

Biology Team Lead: Matt Hall, Ph.D.
Chemistry Team Lead: Juan Marugan, Ph.D.
Informatics Team Lead: Min Shen, Ph.D.

Research Scientists:

• Ken Cheng, Ph.D., biology
• Nathan Coussens, Ph.D., biology
• Surendra Karavadhi, chemistry
• Colin Kelly, biology
• Li Liu, M.S., chemistry
• Dan Urban, biology
• Ya-Qin Zhang, biology
• Wei Zhao, biology
• Hu Zhu, Ph.D., biology

Thymine Team

Scientific Areas of Focus

• Cancer
• Induced pluripotent stem cell–based assays (retinal pigment epithelium, neurological disorders)
• Advanced cell-based models of disease
• 3-D cell culture and tissue/organoid models
• Immunological and differentiation assays
• Autophagy
• Yeast/bacterial assays

Team Members

Biology Team Lead: Mark J. Henderson, Ph.D.
Chemistry Team Lead: Juan Marugan, Ph.D.
Informatics Team Lead: Noel Southall, Ph.D.

Research Scientists:

• Elena Barnaeva, biology
• Raul Calvo, M.S., chemistry
• Chris Dextras, biology
• Andrés Dulcey, Ph.D., chemistry
• Rajarshi Guha, Ph.D., informatics
• Xin Hu, Ph.D., informatics
• Madhu Lal-Nag, Ph.D., biology
• Samarjit Patnaik, Ph.D., chemistry
• Tej Poudel, Ph.D., medicinal chemistry
• Wenjuan Ye, M.B., biology
• Xiaohu Zhang, biology