Former Group Members
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Alberto Martinez
Alberto Martínez received his BSc from the
University of Barcelona, Spain, where he was awarded
his Masters and doctorate degree in 2001 and 2005,
respectively, under the supervision of Professor
Virtudes Moreno. From 2006-2012 he joined Professor
Sánchez-Delgado's research group at Brooklyn
College, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, and
Professor Nicholas Farrell's group at Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond
(2010-1011). In 2012, Dr. Alberto Martinez
became Assistant Professor of Chemistry at NYC
College of Technology, also part of CUNY, from where
he continues collaborating with Professor
Sánchez-Delgado. His research in the group focused
on medicinal chemistry with applications on Malaria
and Cancer, and he is currently investigating the
role that metal ions play in the progression of
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Antonio Sanchez
Antonio
Sánchez studied chemistry at the University
of Zaragoza (Spain) completing his
Bachelor’s degree in the year 2005. He
received his Ph.D. with “magna cum laude”
honors (2010) under the supervision of Prof.
Daniel Carmona and Prof. Luis A. Oro in the
field of asymmetric homogeneous catalysis,
joining next Prof. Roberto Sanchez-Delgado’s
group at Brooklyn College - City University
of New York where he stayed as a
postdoctoral research associate from
March-2010 to February-2013, working on
heterogeneous catalysis based on supported
metal nanoparticles as well as the
development of organometallic analogues for
mechanistic studies. He is
currently R&D chemist at
AirLiquide-Voltaix in New Jersy.
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Tiffany
Shand
Tiffany received her bachelor's degree in
Chemistry from Brooklyn College, CUNY in 2010. She
joined Professor Sánchez-Delgado's group in 2009.
Her research focused on studying studying the
interactions of arene Ru(II) chloroquine complexes
of known antimalarial and anti-tumor properties
with albumin and transferrin. She then went on to
become a post-bac student at the Mayo Clinic,
dissecting the signaling requirements for the
generation of Large Granular T Lymphocytes (T-LGL)
and their progression to LGL Leulemia (T-LGLL).
She started graduate school in the Biomedical
Science Graduate Program at the University of
Virginia in Fall-2013.
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Nataliya Machalba
Nataliya did research first as a high school
student and later as an undergraduate synthesizing
solid-state catalysts for the hydrogenation of
nitrogen- and sulfur-containing aromatic
compounds, and testing their activity in
hydrogenation reactions. Nataliya graduated
from City College with a BE in Chemical
Engineering (2012).
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Dalanda M. Diallo
Dalanda graduated
from Brooklyn College Honors Academy in 2009 with
bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Biology. While
at Brooklyn College she participated in Dr.
Roberto Sanchez-Delgado’s laboratory from 2007
until 2009 as an undergraduate student. Her
research interests were centered around the
antimalarial activities of Ru-CQ complexes against
resistant species of P. falciparum and
Ru-KTZ complexes as potential anti-tumor agents.
Work in these areas resulted in a publication in
2009 and she was awarded the Jonas E. Salk
Scholarship upon graduation. Dalanda is currently
a third year medical student at SUNY-Upstate
Medical Univeristy and looking forward to pursue a
career in Radiology.
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Atif Ahmed
Atif Ahmed was part of the group since June 2011
till his graduation on February-2013. His research
interests focused on the hydrogenation of aromatic,
N-, and S-heteroaromatic compounds contained in
fossil fuels, using supported metal nanoparticle
catalysts. He has also investigated hydrogenation to
improve the quality of biodiesel. Atif is currently
a flavor chemist apprentice at Virginia Dare, a
Brooklyn based flavor and extract company.
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Dimitriy Vovchok
C-SURP Research Fellow
Dimitriy
was a member of Sanchez-Delgado's research group
from summer 2012, when he joined as a part of
the C-SURP research fellowship, until his
graduation in 2013. His research was on the
design and characterization of ruthenium based
catalysts supported on carbon nanotubes, and
testing their activity for hydrogenation of
(hetero)-aromatics under mild pressure and
temperature. He is currently pursuing graduate
studies in Chemistry at SUNY, Stony Brook.
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Cyril Abraham
Undergraduate Student
Cyril is currently a junior at Brooklyn College and
the Macaulay Honors College pursuing a BS in
Chemistry. His research aims at understanding the
mechanism of antiparasitic action of Ru-clotrimazole
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Maryna Lisai
Maryna Graduated from Brooklyn College with an MA in
Chemistry in 2011. She worked in Prof.
Sanchez-Delgado's group from the summer of 2010
until the summer of 2011. Her research was focused
on the synthesis and characterization of new
4-aminoquinolines with antimalarial properties. She
is currently working as a Research Scientist II in
Analytical Development at Albany Molecular Research
Incorporation, Albany NY.
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Oscar Abramovich
Oscar
is a Pre-Med student at the Macaulay Honors
College of CUNY at Brooklyn College. He worked in
the research group of Prof. Sanchez-Delgado during
the Summer-2013 on synthesis of hybrid molecules
containing tetroxane moiety.
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Lotta
Glans
Lotta
Glans completed her undergraduate chemistry
studies at University College London (UCL) and
Lund University, Sweden. As a PhD student in
Inorganic Chemistry at Lund University, her
research focused on synthesis of organometallic
analogues of the antimalarial drug chloroquine,
and she received her doctorate degree in 2012.
During her PhD, she collaborated with the
Sanchez-Delgado group and visited Brooklyn College
for two three-month periods in 2008 and 2010.
Lotta is currently working at
the European Chemicals Agency, the European
Union’s regulatory authority for chemicals, in
Helsinki, Finland.
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Chandima
S. K. Rajapakse
After graduating in chemistry from University of
Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, Chandima was the first
graduate student to join our (then new) group at
Brooklyn College in 2004. She worked on the
synthesis and evaluation of ruthenium-chloroquine
complexes with antimalarial and anticancer
properties and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2010.
She then returned to her native country where she is
currently Senior Lecturer at the Chemistry
Department of the University of Kelaniya.
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Nkechia
Ng-a-qui
Nkechia was a RISE and MARC undergraduate Scholar in
our group from 2005 to 2007, working on
nanostructured Ru/poly(4-vinylpyridine) catalysts
for aromatic hydrogenation. She currently is Science
Department Leader and chemistry teacher at the Young
Women Leadership School of Brooklyn.
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Avri
Bohm
Avri worked in our lab as an undergraduate student
from the summer of 2009 until 2011, focusing on
studying the interactions of ruthenium complexes of
known biological activity with serum proteins by
spectroscopic measurements. He is currently pursuing
medical studies at SUNY Downstate Medical School.
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Angel Luis Serrano
Angel Luis Serrano obtained his B.Sc. in Chemistry
in 2006, and his PhD in 2013 from the University of
Zaragoza (ISQCH - CSIC, Spain) under the supervision
of Dr. Cristina Tejel and Dr. Miguel A. Casado. His
work focused on the development of rhodium and
iridium organometallic complexes bearing new hybrid
scorpionate ligands, and their applications in the
activation of small molecules. In 2010, he spent 3
months in Sánchez-Delgado's group in Brooklyn
College, as part of his PhD training.
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William
Castro
William Castro studied chemistry at Universidad
Central de Venezuela (Caracas), completing his
Licenciado degree in chemistry in the year 2005. He
received his PhD in Chemistry in 2010 supervised by
Prof. M. Navarro at the Venezuelan Institute for
Scientific Research (IVIC). Between March-August
2009, he conducted a research internship in
Professor Sánchez-Delgado's laboratory at Brooklyn
College, as part of his Ph.D. Thesis. Currently, he
is a Researcher in the Bioinorganic Chemistry
Laboratory at IVIC. His current research involves
the design of metal complexes to interact
specifically with thioredoxin reductase and the
synthesis of new metal complexes of N-heterocyclic
carbene and phosphole ligands with possible
antimalarial and anticancer activity. |
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Becky Naoulou
Becky Naoulou was an undergraduate
student in the group between 2005 and her
graduation in 2008. Her research was focused
on the synthesis and evaluation of
ruthenium-chloroquine complexes as
antimalarial agents. She received a Salk
Award to pursue medical studies at NYU,
where she obtained her M.D. Degree in 2012.
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Cula N.
Dautriche
Cula joined Prof. Sanchez-Delgado's laboratory at
the end of her freshman year in 2005 as a MARC
scholar. She was inviolved in the project addressing
chloroquine resistant malaria until she left the lab
in 2008, upon receiving a B.A. in Chemistry and a
B.S. in Biology from CUNY-Brooklyn College. She is
currently an MD/Ph.D candidate in Medicine and
Nanoscience at the College of Nanoscale Science and
Engineering of the University at Albany (CNSE) and
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. |
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Bola
Aladegbami
Bola
Aladegbami was the first student to join
the group in 2005. He helped a great deal to set
up the (then new) lab and worked on the
synthesis of metal complexes of isoniazid as
potential anti-tubercular agents, graduating
with a chemistry major in 2008. He then
proceeded to medical school at Stony Brook and
obtained his M.D. Degree in 2012. Currently he
is in the General Surgery Residence Program at
Washington University in St. Louis
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