FACULTY MENTORS

New York University REU has an outstanding team of faculty mentors, all of whom are determined to help students succeed in their research experience. 

PARAMJIT ARORA

Bioorganic Chemistry: Design of inhibitors for protein-protein interactions

DANIELA BUCCELLA

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Sensors for the recognition of metal ions

JAMES CANARY

Supramolecular Chemistry: Probes for imaging

TIANNING DIAO

Organometallic Chemistry: Development of transition metal catalysts

GLEN HOCKY

Computational Chemistry: Molecular basis of cellular mechanical properties

ALEXEJ JERSCHOW

NMR spectroscopy: Development of novel imaging modalities

KENT KIRSHENBAUM

Biomimetic Chemistry: Conformationally-defined biopolymers

TANIA LUPOLI

Chemical Biology and Infectious Diseases: Bacterial resistance mechanisms

LARA MAHAL

Glycomics: Carbohydrate-protein interactions and glycosylation

TAMAR SCHLICK

Biomolecular Modeling: Nucleic acids structure and function

NADRIAN SEEMAN

DNA Nanotechnology: Construction of DNA architectures

NATHANIEL TRAASETH

Structural Biology: Biophysics of membrane protein transporters

DIRK TRAUNER

Photopharmacology: controlling biology with synthetic molecules that respond to light

KEITH WOERPEL

Organic Synthesis: New methods and reactions for synthesis

YINGKAI ZHANG

Computational Chemistry: Molecular recognition in biological systems