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Principal Investigator

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Dr. Lei Li

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry and Center for Diagnostics & Therapeutics

Georgia State University

Office Phone: (404) 413-5073

Office Address: 50 Decatur ST SE

Email: lli22@gsu.edu

Dr. Lei Li graduated from Shandong University in China in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Biotechnology. He then received his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology in State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology at Shandong University in 2010. During the Ph.D. program, he joined Dr. Peng George Wang's group at The Ohio State University as a visiting scholar from 2007 to 2009, where he worked on elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of lipopolysaccharides and synthesis of biomedical-related glycans. He then spent two years at Nankai University as a Postdoctoral Associate, focusing on chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex glycans and sugar nucleotides. In 2013, he joined Dr. Peng George Wang's lab at Georgia State University as Research Scientist I and was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 2018. He developed independent research programs in microbial glycobiology and glycomics under the support of NIH. In 2020, he joined Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor. His research interest includes expedited synthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycoconjugates, glycomics tools to elucidate glycan-protein interactions, as well as carbohydrate-related vaccines and therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  

CURRENT MEMBER

Dr. Jinghua Han

Postdoctoral Fellow in Carbohydrate Chemistry

Dr. Han graduated from Taishan Medical University in 2009, earning a B.S. degree in Pharmacy. Then he received his M.S. degree in Medicinal Chemistry at Nankai University in 2013 and finished his Ph.D. study in Chemical Biology at Nankai University in 2018. He then joined Department of Chemistry at Georgia State University. Currently, his research focuses on the chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycopeptides and bacterial polysaccharides.

Dr. Shuquan Fan

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Functional Glycomics and Chemical Biology

Dr. Fan obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Shandong University in 2015. As a visiting scholar, he spend two years at University of Maryland from 2010-2012, working on glycopeptide synthesis. Dr. Fan's research focused on the synthesis of mammalian glycans and glycopeptides, and total synthesis of bacterial polysaccharides. 

Avinash Ittuveetil

Ph.D Student, Carbohydrate Chemistry

Avinash obtained his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the College of  Pharmaceutical Sciences, Govt. Medical College, Calicut. He obtained his Masters's degree (Thesis) in medicinal chemistry from the National Institute of pharmaceutical education and research, Mohali, India. Avinash joined the group as a Ph.D. student on Sep. 2021.

Shumin Bao

Ph.D Student, Glycobiology and Chemical Biology
 

Bao obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from Qinghai University and Master’s degree from Central South University. She joined the group as a Ph.D. student on Jan. 2022.

Tangliang Shen

Ph.D Student, Carbohydrate Chemistry

Shen obtained his Bachelor's degree of Engineering in Pharmaceutical Engineering from Anhui University of Chinese Medicine in 2017, and Master's degree Engineering in Pharmaceutical Engineering from in Nankai University in 2020. He joined the group as a Ph.D. student on Jan. 2022.

Jun Pan

Master

Phuong Tran

Non-Thesis Master

ALUMINI

Dr. Madhusudhan Reddy Gadi

2019.8 - 2022.10       Research Scientist

Current Position          

Dr. Congcong Chen

2021.10 - 2022.7        Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Position          

Dr. Shuaishuai Wang

2020.7 - 2022.3          Postdoctoral Associate

Current Position         Professor at Shandong University, China

Dr. Ding Liu

2020.7 - 2021.9          Postdoctoral Fellow in Glycomics & Chemical Biology

Current Position         Scientist at Moderna

Dr. Arya Aloor

2020.6-2020.8            Postdoctoral Fellow in Glycomics

Current Position         Senior Research Scientist at Amrita School of Biotechnology, India

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