5/4/13 Matt Nguyen won second prize during the undergraduate poster session. Congratulations!

3/5/13 Prof. Santos presents an invited lecture at the 14th Annual Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Chemistry Conference.

2/6/13 Wenyu and Jessica's paper about discovering a novel binding mode toward HIV-1 RNA is accepted in Chemical Communications. Congratulations!

1/5/13 We welcome two new graduate students in the lab. Cheryl Peck comes from Longwood College and Beth Childress is a graduate of the College of William and Mary.

1/1/13 Two publications from the Santos group are highlighted in Chemistry Portal. Joe's silylation protocol and Brandon's borylation protocol.

8/27/12 Dr. Mithun Raje secures a postdoctoral position with Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto at Johns Hopkins. Good luck!

8/21/12 Prof. Santos presents at the Young Investigator Symposium at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

8/21/12 Joe Calderone gives a talk about his beta silylation protocol at the ACS conference in Philadelphia.

7/31/12 Congratulations to Dr. Jason Crumpton. He will start as an assistant professor of chemistry at Lynchburg College. Well done!

7/17/12 Joe's paper on aqueous silylation is highlighted in Synfacts (2012, 8, 781). Congrats Joe!

7/10/12 Mithun's paper describing selective sphingosine kinase 2 inhibitor SLR080811's role in lowering S1P level in mice is published in Biochemical Journal. Great Job!

7/7/12 The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery is official! Click here for more info.

7/1/12 Dr. Mithun Raje started as a postdoc in the Carlier group while Dr. Brandon Thorpe assumed principal scientist role at SphynKx Therapeutics. Good luck to both of you!

6/1/12 Best of luck to Dr. David Bryson who joins Prof. David Liu as a postdoc fellow at Harvard University.

5/30/12 We welcome James Gumkowski as a Fralin Summer Undergrad Research Fellow. He comes to us from Muhlenberg College.

5/20/12 Analyn Carreon, a visiting scholar from the Philippines, has arrived!

4/30/12 Congratulations to Julie Ta for winning 1st place in the undergraduate research poster session.

4/23/12 The reagent developed in our lab, PDIPA diboron, is now in the "electronic Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (eROS)". The article is contributed by Brandon Thorpe.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dr. Santos 

Webster L. Santos, Ph. D.

 

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Virginia Tech, 2013-present

 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Virginia Tech, 2006-2013

 

 

NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University, 2002-2006

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Advisor: Professor Gregory L. Verdine

 

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Virginia, 1997-2002

Department of Chemistry

Advisor: Professor Timothy L. Macdonald

 

Bachelor of Science

University of Virginia, 1993-1997

Department of Chemistry

Advisor: Professor Timothy L. Macdonald

 

 

Awards

2012 Lecturer, ACS Young Academic Investigators Symposium, Philadelphia, PA

2011 Speaker, Molecular Biosystems Award Symposium: Emerging Investigators, Anaheim, CA

2010 Co-founder, SphynKx Therapeutics, LLC

2010 Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator

2010 Blackwood Junior Faculty Fellow of LIfe Sciences

2009 Molecular BioSystems Emerging Investigator

2002-2006 Ruth Kirstein NRSA Post Doctoral Fellowship

2002 Third Prize Winner, Robert J. Huskey Graduate Research Symposium, University of Virginia

1998 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

1996 Semi-finalist for Seven Society Teaching Fellowship, Secret Seven Society, University of Virginia

Patents

7. Santos, W.L.; Raje, M.R.; Lynch, K.R.; Macdonald, T.L.; Kennedy, A. and Kharel, Y.   “Long Chain Base Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitors”, PCT/US2013/025341, February 8, 2013. Priority filing date: February 8, 2012.

6. Santos, W.L. and Lynch K.R. Sphingosine kinase inhibitors and therapeutic use thereof. US Patent Appl. 61/375,478, Aug. 2010.

5.Santos, W.L. Branched peptides as therapeutics for structured RNA targets. US Patent Appl. 61/269,571, June 2009

4. Santos, W.L. and Gao, M. Synthesis and uses of mixed diboron reagents. US Patent Appl.61/225,032 July 2009.

3. Santos, W.L. Inhibition of proteases using N‐terminal peptidic boronic acids. US Patent Appl. 61/234,399 August 2009.

2. Santos, W.L. and Verdine, G.L. Oligonucleotide microarrays comprising nucleic acid analogs for hybridization with target RNA, including RNA in nucleoprotein complexes. PCT Int. Appl. 2005, 60 pp.

1. Lynch, K.R.; Macdonald, T. L.; Heise, C.H.; Santos , W. L . and Okusa, M.D. Novel Lysophosphatidic Acid Receptor Agonists and Antagonists. PCT Int. Appl. 2002, 81 pp.

 

 

 

 

 

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