acquilan@bu.edu

Ms. Acquilano received her B.S. in Biology with a minor in Chemistry in May 2003 from the State University of New York at Fredonia. She worked under Dr. Matthew Fountain for 18 months on a project entitled "Synthesis of Metal-Binding Nucleosides" before joining the CMLD in May 2004.
Ms. Acquilano is now a Study Coordinator at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

		jb549@bu.edu

Dr. Becerril received his B.S. in Chemistry and a M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Jaume I University (Spain). In 2002, he joined the group of Prof. Andrew Hamilton at Yale University as a graduate student. His research focused on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of small molecules that mimic the functional properties of peptides. After defending his thesis in August 2007, he joined the CMLD-BU as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dr. Becerril is now a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University.

		castaldi@bu.edu

Dr. Castaldi obtained her Laurea degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) in 2002. Her Ph.D. research at Imperial College London (Prof. S. E. Gibson) focused on the development of a methodology to introduce multiple chiral centers around aromatic cores towards the synthesis of C₂- and C₃- symmetric chiral ligands. In November 2005, she began her postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego under Prof. Y. Tor and Prof. T. Hermann and worked on structure-based design and synthesis of small molecules to specifically bind RNA. She joined the CMLD-BU in October 2007 and worked on the synthesis of highly functionalized spirocyclic compounds.
Dr. Castaldi is now a Scientist at Makoto Life Sciences in Eastern Massachusetts.

		ecomer@bu.edu

Dr. Comer received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Dublin City University, Ireland, in 1998 and his Ph.D. in 2003 under Dr. Liam Murphy at the University College Cork, Ireland. He joined Micheal Organ's group at York University, Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2003 before joining the CMLD in April 2005. Whilst at the CMLD Dr. Comer worked in conjunction with Li Deng at Brandeis University toward the Stereoselective Preparation of Urethane N-Carboxylanhydride (UNCA) derived libraries.
Dr. Comer is now a Research Scientist at The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

		daip@bu.edu

Dr. Dai obtained his B. S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997. He completed his Ph. D. studies in December 2004 under the guidance of Prof. Patrick H. Dussault at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After a brief postdoctoral appointment at UNL, he joined the CMLD-BU in November 2005 where he worked on the synthesis of dihydropyrimidone and related chemical libraries.
Dr. Dai is now a Senior Research Scientist, Medicinal Chemistry at Albany Molecular Research, Inc.

		sivaram@bu.edu

Dr. Dandapani obtained his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the IIT Madras in 1998. He completed his Ph. D studies in 2003 under the guidance of Prof. Dennis P. Curran at the University of Pittsburgh. After a brief postdoctoral appointment at Fluorous Technologies Inc., he joined the CMLD-BU in September 2004 where he focused on the development of strategies for convergent library synthesis.
Dr. Dandapani is currently a research scientist at The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

		jaruna@bu.edu

Ms. Jain graduated with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Mississippi and pursued certificate programs in Software Technology. She worked as a software developer and database administrator in SQL Server and Oracle databases. She also provided application support for various softwares and helped develop and maintain web sites. She joined the CMLD-BU in March 2003 to manage the cheminformatics systems administration and website development.
In 2008, Ms. Jain left the CMLD to work at Novartis as an IT Support Team Lead.

		sarathy@bu.edu

Dr. Kesavan obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the IIT Madras in 1998 and received his Ph. D in Chemistry in 2004 under the guidance of Prof. George A. Kraus at the Iowa State University. He joined the CMLD-BU in August 2004 where he worked on the synthesis of linear polyketide libraries.
Dr. Kesavan is now a Research Chemist at The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

		hkino@mail.saitama-u.ac.jp

Dr. Kinoshita completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Kyoto University, Japan. He pursued his M.S. & Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry under Professor Koichiro Oshima at the Department of Material Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University.
His graduate research focused on organic reactions in water. The title of his thesis was "Studies on Synthetic Reactions Unique in Aqueous Media". He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering in the field of Material Chemistry (Synthetic Organic Chemistry) in 2005. Then worked as a medicinal chemist for Nagoya Laboratories, Pfizer Inc., Japan for 2 years before joining the CMLD-BU in July 2007.
Dr. Kinoshita is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Saitama University, Japan.

		rnarayan@sirtrispharma.com

Dr. Narayan received her M.S. in Chemistry from the IIT Bombay, India in 1997. The same year she was awarded a fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India to conduct research at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. She then moved to Michigan State University and obtained her Ph.D. in 2004 under Prof. Babak Borhan. She joined the laboratory of Prof. Michael VanNieuwenhze at the University of California, San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on the total synthesis of the peptide antibiotic mersacidin. She joined the CMLD-BU in January 2007 and investigated metal catalyzed rearrangements of glycal derived scaffolds.
Dr. Narayan is now a Scientist at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts.