Turesky Lab Members

Prof. Robert J. Turesky, Ph.D.

E-mail:   Rturesky@umn.edu

2019-present   Endowed Scholar award and Masonic Chair in Cancer Causation

2013-present   Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy; Director of the Masonic Cancer Center’s Analytical Biochemistry shared resource, University of Minnesota, MN 

2005-2013       Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Toxicology, School of Public Health, University of Albany, NY     

2004-2013       Research Scientist VIII, Wadsworth Center, NYS Deparment of Health, Albany, NY

2000-2004       Division Director of Chemistry, National Center for Toxicological Research, US FDA, Jefferson, AR

1996-2000       Group Leader, Metabolism & Biomarkers, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland

1988-1996       Team Leader, Metabolism & Biomarkers, Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland 

1986-1987        Analytical chemist, Nestec Ltd., Labior, Orbe, Switzerland

1981-1986        PhD, Nutrition and Food Science , MIT,  Cambridge, MA 

1977-1981        BS, Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA

Graduate Students

Dmitri Konorev

B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, WI

konor001@umn.edu 

Graduated August, 2022

Staff

Madjda Bellamri, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Toxicology, University of Rennes, France

M.S., Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Rennes, France

bellamri@umn.edu 

Lihua Yao, M.D.(China)

Research Scientist

Peking University Medical School, China

yaol@umn.edu 

Kyle Brandt

Supporting Sceintist

B.S., Biochemistry, B.A., Chemistry

Drake University, IA

brandtk@umn.edu 

Kari Cammerrer

Research Associate

B.S., Biochemistry

Gustavus Adolphus College, MN

camme004@umn.edu

Current Postdoctoral Fellows



Visiting Scientists

Nguyen Thi Minh Tu, Ph.D.

2017

School of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Yu-Ming Hsu, Ph.D.

2022

Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan


Chia-Fang Wu, Ph.D.

2018

Assistant Research Fellow

Research Center for Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan

Former Visiting Students

Feifei Sun

2017-2018

Ph.D. candidate, 

China Agriculture University 

Former Members

Jingshu Guo, Ph.D.

2013-2021 Research Assistant Professor

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Haoqing Chen, Ph.D.

2017-2019 Post-doctoral Fellow

Postdoc Associate

Stanford University

Byeong Hwa (BH) Yun, Ph.D.

2011-2020 Research Assistant Professor & Lab Manager

FDA

Abderrahman Day

2019-2021 Supporting Scientist

University of Minnesota

Christina Brown

2018-2020 Supporting Scientist

Graduate student

University of Pennsylvania

Amelia Hemman

2020-2021 Supporting Scientist

North Dakota State - Law Student

Sesha Krishnamachari

2014-2017 Research Scientist 

Laboratory Medicine and pathology

University of Minnesota, MN

Sheldon Saccoman

2017-2018 Supporting Scientist

B.S., Chemistry and Biology, Hillsdale College, MI

Hyung Min Kim, Ph.D.

2019-2020, Post-doctoral Fellow

Seoul National University


Ziyou Cui, Ph.D.

2016-2017, Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Scientist at Eureka Therapeutics, Inc

San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Shun Xiao, Ph.D.

2015-2017, Post-doctoral Fellow

Senior Analytical Researcher, Asymchem Life Science

(Tianjin) Co., Ltd. China

Yi Wang, Ph.D.

2013-2016, Post-doctoral Fellow

Postdoc Associate

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 

Tingting Cai, Ph.D.

2015-2016, Post-doctoral Fellow

Project manager

Shanghai Clinmeta, China

Khyati Pathak, Ph.D.

2014-2015, Post-doctoral Fellow

Staff Scientist

Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Lijuan Peng, Ph.D.

2010-2013, Post-doctoral Fellow

Associate Professor

Wuhan Polytechnic University, China

Angela K. Goodenough, Ph.D.

2005-2007, Post-doctoral Fellow

Principal Investigator, Technical Operations

Amicus Therapeutics, Cranbury, NJ

Jean-luc Ravanat, Ph.D.

1993-1995, Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Director, Molecular and nanoMaterial Systems for Energy and Health

French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Grenoble, France 

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