Recent News
July 2023: The Fletcher group in collaboration with Dr. France Carrier’s group in the School of Medicine is awarded an R01 from the National Cancer Institute at the NIH on “First in Class Small molecules to simultaneously inhibit protein translation and an immune checkpoint in cancers”!
July 2023: Our grant from the The Maryland Moonshot Initiative to develop new therapeutics for pediatric cancers is renewed!
September 2022: Undergraduate student Zoe Wuyst joins us for 9 months from Cardiff University (UK)!
May 2022: Rotation student Sarah Pogash officially joins our lab!
July 2022: The lab receives a grant from The Maryland Moonshot Initiative to develop new therapeutics for pediatric cancers.
September 2021: Rotation student Brandon Lowe officially joins our lab! Welcome, Brandon!
June 2021: The lab receives an R21 NIH grant from the National Institutes of Cancer on boosting the efficacy of the FDA-approved drug venetoclax in resistant patients.
March 2020: As the world begins to change, Alex wins an American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Pre-Doctoral Fellowship!
September 2020: Rotation student Christopher (Chris) Goodis officially joins our lab!
September 2019: Rotation student Alexandira (Alex) Chan officially joins our lab!
September 2016: Rotation student Ivie Conlon officially joins our lab!
September 2015: Undergraduate students Sam Bosely and Danny Van Eker join us for 9 months from Cardiff University (UK)!
September 2015: PharmD student Kelly Moore begins a five-week rotation with us.
September 2015: Rotation student Brandon Drennen officially joins our lab! Welcome, Brandon!
August 2015: The group is awarded a collaborative U54 (NIH) grant on our work on the oncoprotein c-Myc!
July 2015: Lee wins a Graduate Student Research Award to present at this Fall’s American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting!
May 2015: Maryanna is awarded an American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Pre-Doctoral Fellowship for 2015/2016!
September 2014: Rotation student Jacob Scheenstra joins the lab.
September 2014: Post-doc Mithun Raje joins the lab from Johns Hopkins University! Welcome!
June 2014: The lab receives a Maryland Industrial Partnership Scheme award for our work with ConverGene on novel BRD4 inhibitors.
May 2014: Jerry officially graduates from the University of Maryland, Baltimore! Congratulations, Dr. Jeremy Yap, the Fletcher Group’s first PhD student!
Older News
July 2012: Jerry has been awarded the prestigious ACS Pre-Doctoral Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship! This is an outstanding achievement, and we are incredibly proud of him! http://www.oea.umaryland.edu/communications/news/?ViewStatus=FullArticle&articleDetail=18835
July 2012: Jay’s paper is accepted in Tetrahedron Letters, entitled: “One-pot synthesis of 2,1-benzisoxazoles (anthranils) by a stannous chloride-mediated tandem reduction–heterocyclization of 2-nitroacylbenzenes under neutral conditions.” Congratulations!
July 2012: Kwan-Young’s paper is accepted in Medicinal and Chemical Communications, entitled: “Fine-tuning the chemo- and regioselectivities of the alkylation of 1,4-benzodiazepines: Further applications of the Mitsunobu reaction.” Congratulations!
June 2012: The lab is awarded a University of Maryland Research and Innovation Seed Grant for work on the development of allosteric inhibitors of HIV-1 protease.
June 2012: Summer interns join the Fletcher Lab: Robert Gharavi, PharmD student (UMB); Caryn Gordon, BS chemistry student (UMCP) and Emori Williams, high school student (Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy). Welcome all!
May 2012: Jerry is awarded a prestigious AFPE pre-doctoral fellowship. Congratulations!
April 2012: Christian Lee from the University of Maryland PharmD program conducts a PHMY531 course in our lab.
March 2012: Kwan-Young and Jerry present their research at the 243rd National ACS Meeting in San Deigo, CA.
Februay 2012: Robert Gharavi from the University of Maryland PharmD program conducts a PHMY531 course in our lab.
February 2012: Jerry’s research on novel alpha-helix mimetics as inhibitors of Bcl-xL is published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry: “Relaxation of the rigid backbone of an oligoamide-foldamer-based α-helix mimetic: identification of potent Bcl-xL inhibitors.“
December 2012: The lab’s review article on the inhibition of dimeric transcription factor is accepted in Medicinal and Chemical Communications.
June 2011: Jerry’s second publication is accepted in Tetrahedron Letters on “Ortho-selectivity in the nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) reactions of 3-substituted, 2,6-dichloropyridines with alkali metal alkoxides.” Congratulations!
June 2011: Rosene Salmon, Caryn Gordon and Troy Dukes join the lab as summer interns.
April 2011: Kwan-Young Jeong joins us as a post-doc from Johns Hopkins University.
April 2011: Jay Chauhan joins us as a post-doc from the University of Minnesota.
April 2011: Congratulations to Jerry for winning first prize for his poster at the University of Maryland Graduate Research Conference!
March 2011: We have a new home! The move to Pharmacy Hall North is complete.
February 2011: Sagar Shukla from the University of Maryland PharmD program conducts an Apex424 course in our lab.
December 2010: The lab is awarded a New Pharmacy Faculty Research Award from the American Association of the Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
October 2010: Jerry’s first publication is accepted in ChemMedChem. Congratulations!
April 2010: The lab’s first paper is accepted in Tetrahedron Letters.
September 2009: The Fletcher Lab begins.