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Gaurav Chopra, PhD

Chemical cellular immunology [Profile] [Biography] [CV] 

Associate Professor

Director, Merck-Purdue Center for Measurement Science
[Merck/Purdue Center for Measurement Science]

Department of Chemistry
Department of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery
Purdue Center for Cancer Research
Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease
Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience
Integrative Data Science Institute

JDRF Fellow, UCSF (2016)

Ph.D., Stanford University (2010)

 gchopra@purdue.edu

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Audra J. Weideman

Administrative Assistant

 ajweidem@purdue.edu

Krupal Jethava

Synthetic methods for cell specific immunomodulation

Ph.D. in Chemistry (2017)
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research

M.S. (Pharm) in Medicinal Chemistry (2012)
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research
Raebareli, India

 Publications

 kjethava@purdue.edu

Caitlin E. Randolph

Lipid structural analysis for Immunomodulation of Glial Cells

Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation

Ph.D. in Chemistry (2020)
Purdue University

  B.S  in Chemistry and Mathematics (2016)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

 quinn70@purdue.edu

Kanchan Bisht

Microglial Cell Dysfunction

Ph.D. in Neurobiology (2018)
Laval University, Canada

 Publications

 kbisht@purdue.edu

Kaushik Sharma

In vivo models of chronic neuroinflammation

Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2016)
National Brain Research Center, India

 Publications

 sharm624@purdue.edu

Anisa Dunham

Immunology and Animal Technician

 dunhamad@purdue.edu

Prageeth Wijewardhane

Drug design using proteomic interaction modeling and mass spectrometry

 Lynn Fellow (2017)

 B.S. in Chemistry (2015)
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

 gwijewar@purdue.edu

Ahad Hossain

Chemical functionalization of live cells

 M.S. in Chemistry (2017)
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

 B.S. in Chemistry (2015)
University of Kalyani

 hossain8@purdue.edu

Armen Beck

Machine learning methods to guide chemical synthesis

 B.S. in Chemistry (2017)
Christopher Newport University

 beck117@purdue.edu

Matthew Muhoberac

Machine Learning for Drug Discovery

 B.S. in Chemistry and Computer Science (2019)
Purdue University

 mmuhober@purdue.edu

Connor Beveridge

Machine learning for spectral analysis and autonomous instrumentation

 B.S. in Biochemistry, minor in Chemistry and Business Administration (2019)
Christopher Newport University

 cbeveri@purdue.edu

Harshit Arora

Chemical Biology applied to Neurodegeneration

M.S. in Chemistry

B.S. (Hons) in Chemistry

 arora103@purdue.edu

Palak Machanda

Microglial Dysfunctional Subsets in Neurodegeneration

M.S. in chemistry
IIT Delhi, India

B.S. in Chemistry
Delhi University, India

 manchanp@purdue.edu

Ruilin Yu

Microglial Dysfunctional Subsets in Neurodegeneration

 yu1040@purdue.edu

Sanjay Iyer

Autonomous instrumentation and machine learning based characterization with a focus on mass spectrometry

B.S. in Chemistry (2017)

Former high stakes poker player, meme investor, and future disc golf pro

 iyer95@purdue.edu

Saniya Virani

Synthesis and machine learning models for small molecules and peptides inhibiting PD-1/PD-L1 pathways.

B.S. in Chemistry (2016)

Georgia State University

B.S. in Chemistry (2018)

Georgia State University

 virani0@purdue.edu

Guang Yang

Bifunctional cell-specific immunomodulators for targeting microglia and astrocytes

B.S. in Pharmacy(2020)

 yang1887@purdue.edu

Pooja Saklani

Glial Cell Proteomics

B.S. in Chemistry (2012)

Delhi University, India 

M.S. in Chemistry (2017)

St. John’s University, New York

 psaklani@purdue.edu

Ryann Davis

In-vitro efficacy study of immunomodulatory drug candidates on cancer cell lines and primary immune cells

 davi1098@purdue.edu

Joseph Johnston

 john2529@purdue.edu

Mun Hong Fong

  fong14@purdue.edu

Sunita Nhemafuki

 snhemafu@purdue.edu

WALLIE

Ph.D. in liquid relocation from Purdue University
Born: May 10th, 2016

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