Our Team

Principal Investigator

Craig W. Lindsley, Ph.D., FRSC, FASPET

William K. Warren, Jr. Chair in Medicine
Executive Director of Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery
University Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Pharmacology
Director of Medicinal Chemistry
Founding Editor of ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Editor-in-Chief of ACS Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Group Leadership

Oliver Boutaud, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor

Darren W. Engers, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Julie Le Engers, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Kristen Gilliland, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Nathan Kett

Senior Drug Discovery Scientist

Hyekyung K. Plumley, Ph.D.

Senior Drug Discovery Scientist

Chris Presley, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Nathalie C. Schnetz -Boutaud, Ph.D.

Research Instructor

Project Leadership

Lisa Barbaro, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Aaron Bender, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Childress, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Katherine Crocker, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Alison Gregro

Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior

Changho Han, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior

Carson Reed, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Paul Spearing, M.S.

Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior

Kayla Temple, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior

Research Staff

Andrew Burns

Research Technician

Rory Capstick

Research Specialist

Renn Duncan

Research Assistant

Daniel Haymer

Research Assistant

Caleb Jones, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Madeline Long

Research Specialist

Uprenda Rathnayake, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Alexa Richardson

Research Technician

David Whomble

Senior Research Assistant

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Tomayo Berida, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Jacob Bouchard, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Pedro De Andrade Horn, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

DMPK

Sichen Chang

Drug Discovery Scientist, Senior

Srinivasan Krishnan

Drug Discovery Scientist

Snehal Sant

Senior Research Assistant

Koji Toyokawa

Drug Discovery Scientist

Katherine Watson

Research Specialist

Irene Zagol-Ikapitte, Ph.D.

Drug Discovery Scientist

Support Staff

Sheila Elder

Administrative Officer Joint with Basic Science Research POD3

Hannah Schaeffer

Administrative Manager

Kimberly M. Viviano

Budget/Accounting Analyst Joint with Basic Science Research POD3

Collaborating WCNDD Leadership

Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.

Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology

Jerod Denton, Ph.D.

Professor of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology Research

Carrie Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Colleen Niswender, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Jerri Rook, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Former Members 

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