Prof. Dr. Marina Tanasova received her master’s degree in organic chemistry at the Georgian Technical University in 1998. She studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the ETH Zurich from 2010 to 2013. She is currently a professor of chemistry and the director of the graduate program at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests are the synthesis of molecular probes for evaluating substrate selection by carbohydrate transporters, the development of platforms for tumor imaging and drug delivery, and the design and synthesis of bioreductively activated DNA repair inhibitors.
Prof. Dr. Shiyue Fang received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2001 and conducted postdoctoral research in nucleic acid chemistry at Purdue University from 2001 to 2004. His research interests are in the areas of nucleic acid chemistry and organic synthesis. Current projects in his group include the development of technologies for sensitive epigenetically modified DNA and RNA synthesis, ultra-long DNA and RNA synthesis, automated synthesis of mono-disperse polyethylene glycol (PEG) and derivatives, the discovery of new organic transformations, and leveraging organic synthesis to address key challenges in chemistry, biology, and medicine.
