NYU Fullerene Group Members

Current Members

Name	*E-Mail*	*Title*
Professor David I. Schuster	david.schuster@nyu.edu	Principal Investigator
Michael Fazio	m.fazio@nyu.edu	Graduate Student
Robert C. Harrits	rch222@nyu.edu	Undergraduate Student
William Jackson	wmj204@nyu.edu	Undergraduate Student
Akash Gupta	ag1012@nyu.edu	Undergraduate Student
Aviv Zalcenstein	aviv@nyu.edu	Undergraduate Student

Alumni

Name	Location	*Status*
Joshua H. Palmer	Cal Tech	Ph.D. Candidate
Sean Vail Ph. D.	Arizona State	Postdoctoral Fellow
Alex Volodarskiy	SUNY - Downstate	Medical Student
Paul Krawczuk	Scripps Research Institute	Ph.D. Candidate
Valdet Nikci		Medical Student
Ke Li Ph. D.	Scripps Research Institute	Postdoctoral Fellow
Christopher Alabi	Cal Tech	Ph.D. Candidate
Dr. Steve Wilson
Sueki Leung	UCLA	Ph.D. Candidate
Paul J. Bracher	Harvard University	Ph.D. Candidate
Van Cayetano
Peter D. Jarowski	UCLA	Student
Michael Yurchenko
Shiqiang "Andy" Zhang
Shaun MacMahon, Ph. D.	Food and Drug Administration	Staff Scientist
Chris Richardson, Ph. D.	Novartis
Phil Baran, Ph. D.	Scripps Research Institute	Professor
Shirley Bassani-Tehrani	NYU Medical Center	Medical Student
Jingrong Cao	Vertex, Inc.	Staff Scientist
Peng Cheng, Ph.D.
Elbert Chin
Adnan Diwan	NYU Medical Center	Medical Student
Robert Fong	University of Chicago	M.D./Ph.D. Candidate
Russell Hatch, M.S.		Teacher
Anton Jensen, Ph.D.	Central Michigan University	Assistant Professor
Nikolas Kaprinidis, Ph.D.	Ciba Specialty Chemicals	Staff Scientist
Zachary Katsamanis	SUNY - Stony Brook	Ph.D. Candidate
Austin N. Kirschner	Northwestern University	Medical Student
Seung Lee	New York University	B.S. - Comp. Sci.
George Lem, Ph.D.	Columbia University	Postdoctoral Fellow
Qing Lu, Ph.D.	Novartis	Research Chemist
Qingyi Lu, Ph.D.	U. of California-Los Angeles	Staff Scientist
Moshe Markowitz	SUNY - Stony Brook	Medical Student
Hai Mi, Ph.D.	Parke-Davis	Staff Scientist
Berthold Nuber, Ph.D.	Sony Corp., Japan	Staff Scientist
Bradley Pua	NYU Medical Center	Medical Student
Joel Rosenthal	MIT	Ph.D. Candidate
Igor Safonov	Univ. of Pennsylvania	Ph.D. Candidate
Dmitry Shkurin	Maimonides Medical Center	Resident Physician
Xuefei Tan
Yihan Wang, Ph.D.	Ariad Pharmaceuticals	Staff Scientist
Yunhui Wu, Ph.D.	Merck	Staff Scientist
Hong Zhao, Ph.D.	Solutia, Inc.	Staff Scientist

Collaborators:

Dr. J. Michael Alforrd, TDA, Inc. Fullerene antioxidants.

Dr. Bradford Braden. Antibody X-Ray Crystallography.

Professor Silvia Braslavsky, Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim, Germany. Singlet Oxygen and Photophysical Studies.

Professor Luis Echegoyen, University of Miami, Department of Chemistry. Electrochemistry

Dr. Bernard Erlanger. Antibodies.

Professor Dirk Guldi. Photophysical Studies. University of
Erlangen.

Professor Alfred Holzwarth, Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim, Germany. Picosecond Fluorescence Lifetime Measurements.

Dr. Ahsan Khan, New York University, Department of Chemistry. Photosensitized Singlet Oxygen Formation

Professor Dennis Mzrynick, University of Texas at Arlington. Nanotube calculations.

Professors Martin Saunders and James Cross and Dr. Anthony Khong, Yale University. ³He NMR Studies.

Professor Raymond Schinazi, VA Medical Center and Emory University Medical School. Determination of Antiviral Activity and Toxicity of Fullerene Derivatives.

Professor Rick Smalley, Rice University. Carbon Nanotubes.

Professor Christopher Smart, Vassar College. Chiral Metal Complexes of Fullerenes.

Professor Mark Tuckerman, New York University. Fullerene derivative calculations.

Dr. Chris Welch, Regis Chemical Co. Chromatographic Resolution of Fullerenes.

Prof. Donald Wolff, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ). Nitric Oxide Synthase.