Current Members

Principal Investigator

Gaurav Chopra, PhD.

James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo Professor

Department of Chemistry, and (by courtesy) of Computer Science

Director, Merck-Purdue Center

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CV [pdf] ; Email - gchopra@purdue.edu

Operations Managers

David J. Foreman, PhD

Operations Manager, Merck-Purdue Center

dforema@purdue.edu

Karson Putt, PhD

Drug Discovery Operations Manager

puttk@purdue.edu

Research Staff

David J. Foreman, PhD

Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation and Automation for Drug Discovery

dforema@purdue.edu

Caitlin E. Randolph, PhD

Single-Cell Lipidomics for Immunomodulation of Glial Cells

Arnold O. Beckman Fellowship (2022-25)

Guy Mellon Award in Analytical Chemistry (2020)

quinn70@purdue.edu

K. Vijayan Dhanabalan, PhD

Structural determination and functional role of targets in Lipid Droplets fusing with cell organelles

kvijayan@purdue.edu

Postdoctoral Researchers

Matthew Muhoberac, PhD.

Artificial Intelligence Agents for Drug Discovery and Digital Healthcare

mmuhober@purdue.edu

Surabhi Pandey, PhD.

Automated synthesis for targeted small-molecule degraders

panday@purdue.edu

Graduate Student Trainees (PhD track)

Pooja Saklani

Department of Chemistry

Glial Cell Proteomics

psaklani@purdue.edu

Ruilin Yu

Department of Chemistry

Neuroimmunology of Alzheimer's Disease

yu1040@purdue.edu

Sanjay Iyer

Department of Chemistry

Autonomous instrumentation and machine learning based characterization with a focus on mass spectrometry

iyer95@purdue.edu

Saniya Virani

Department of Chemistry

Synthesis and machine learning models for small molecules and peptides inhibiting PD-1/PD-L1 pathways.

virani0@purdue.edu

Yihao Chen

Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (PULSe)

Lipid droplets in microglia dysfunction

chen3846@purdue.edu

Jitika Rajpoot

Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (PULSe)

Neuroimmunology of Alzheimer's Disease

jrajpoot@purdue.edu

Guang Yang

Department of Chemistry

Chemical Biology applied to Neurodegeneration

yang1887@purdue.edu

Katherine Walker

Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (PULSe)

Neuroimmunology of Alzheimer's Disease

walke746@purdue.edu

Gabriel Amankwah

Department of Chemistry

AI/Machine learning for drug design

gamankwa@purdue.edu

Mayuri Patil

Department of Chemistry

Neuroimmunology

patil167@purdue.edu

Victoria Wendt

Department of Chemistry

Neuroimmunology of Alzheimer's Disease

vwendt@purdue.edu

Pranav Ballaney

Department of Chemistry

Immunotherapy

pballane@purdue.edu

Trevor Du

Department of Chemistry

AI agents based automated laboratories framework for drug discovery and development

du349@purdue.edu

Thomas Lubinsky

Department of Chemistry

ImmunoAI/Machine learning for drug design

tlubinsk@purdue.edu

Nathaniel (Nate) Berney

Department of Chemistry

AI/Machine learning for drug design

nberney@purdue.edu

Deepti Nehra

Department of Chemistry

AI/Machine learning for drug design

dnehra@purdue.edu

Research Assistant

Atharva Parikh

Computer Science and Statistics (MS, 2025)

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

parikh92@purdue.edu

Undergraduate Trainees

Mia Martinez

Major: Chemistry

Minor: Law and Society, Mathematical Economics

mart2276@purdue.edu

Jessie Fu

Major: Biology

Minor: Forensic Sciences

fu344@purdue.edu

Reagan N. Fortwendel

Major: Biochemistry

rfortwen@purdue.edu

Dhruv Hardikar

Major: Biomedical Health Sciences

dhardika@purdue.edu

Natalia Vujic

Major: Biomedical Health Science

nvujic@purdue.edu

Christian Durbin

Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences

durbinca@purdue.edu

Shreyes Kanumuru

Major: Chemistry

kanumuru@purdue.edu

Samantha Claire Magner

Major: Genetics

magners@purdue.edu

Tanner J. Wollov

Major: Biochemistry

twolov@purdue.edu

Pedro Foss

Major: Data Science

pfosscon@purdue.edu

Saanvi Venkatesan

Major: Chemistry

venka114@purdue.edu

Alexandra Wildridge

Major: Chemistry

amwildri@purdue.edu

Youssef Morad

Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences

ymorad@purdue.edu

Ishan Bhat

bhat52@purdue.edu

Babies and Furry Babies 💖💖💖

Charlie

Nala

Titan

Mortisha

Loki

Ddang Ddang Jr.

Maimai

Marsha

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