Research Interests

Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry: Understanding the involvement of lipids in different cell fates; LC-MS based lipidomics; biochemical characterization of lipids of interest

Lipids are a broad class of biomolecules whose primary role is to form the permeability barriers, which define cellular borders and compartments within them. Increasingly, they are recognized to play critical roles as signaling molecules both within cells and between cells, as lipids themselves, or following transformation by hydrolysis, oxidation or other modifications. As a chemical biologist, my research focuses on investigating the role of lipids and lipid-derived metabolites in different cellular processes, which I think provide a major and unexplored area of biochemistry that is ripe for discovery and therapeutic applications.