Members

Portrait of Dr. Guanrong Zheng standing in his lab wearing a crisp, white UF College of Pharmacy lab coat. He is smiling and wears thinly rimmed glasses. His hair is short, black, and neatly cut.
Guangrong Zheng, PhD

Guangrong Zheng, PhD – PI

Guangrong Zheng, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Florida (UF), College of Pharmacy.

Dr. Zheng received his BS in medicinal chemistry from Fudan University and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica. He then completed his postdoc training in drug design and discovery at the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy. Before he joined UF in March 2018, he was a faculty member at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy. Download Dr. Zheng’s CV.


Post-Doctoral Researchers

Post-doctoral Researcher | 2019

Yufeng Xiao, PhD

Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica

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Post-doctoral researcher | 2021

Yi Liu, PhD

East China Normal University

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Post-doctoral Researcher | 2022

Hui Chen, PhD

Nanjing University

Hui Chen

Graduate Students

Fifth year Graduate Student

Matthew Burke

Cornell University

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Fifth Year Graduate Student

Alexis Smith

University of Dayton

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Fourth year graduate student

Vanisa Petriti

Northern State University

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Third Year Graduate Student

Kuntala Dey

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar, India

Kuntala Dey

first Year Graduate Student

Annan Sun

University of California San Diego

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Research Technicians

Chemist II

Peiyi Zhang, MS

Fudan University

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chemist II

Wanyi Hu, BS

Fudan University

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Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate research INTERN

Anastasiya Khimich

Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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STRONGER PROGRAM INTERN

Isabella Alves

San Diego State University

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Undergraduate research volunteer

Nicolas Molina

University of Florida

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