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Doug E. Frantz, PhD

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About Me

Doug E. Frantz was born in Kettering, OH in 1971. He obtained his BS in Chemistry in 1994 at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas under the guidance of James Garrett. In 1998, he received his PhD degree in organic chemistry at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX under the supervision of Dan Singleton where he worked on the synthetic and mechanistic studies of carbometalations reactions. He then moved on to do a postdoctoral fellowship with Erick Carreira at the ETH – Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland where he discovered and developed the asymmetric addition of zinc acetylides to aldehydes.

He joined the Department of Process Research at Merck & Co., Inc. in 2000 in Rahway, NJ where he worked on the development of practical and efficient syntheses to various drug candidates in Merck’s pipeline. In late 2001, he moved to a new Merck site in Wayne, PA where he continued to work in the area of pre-clinical drug development and process chemistry.

With a desire to return back to Texas, late in 2005 Frantz joined the faculty in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas as a research assistant professor and director of the Synthetic Chemistry Core Facility. In 2009, he was recruited by the University of Texas at San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas where he served as professor of chemistry. During his tenure at UTSA Frantz pioneered the creation of the Center for Innovative Drug Discovery (CIDD) as well as the creation of the Preclinical Pharmacy Core. He currently serves as a professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics at WashU Medicine in St. Louis.

Visit our at UTSA for historical context and past research.

Awards

2017 Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee
2014 Eli Lilly Outstanding Open Innovation Drug Discovery Collaborator Award
2011 UTSA President’s Distinguished Research Award
2010 Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Young Investigator Award

Nicolas Wilson

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Role: 6th year PhD student

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Hometown: San Antonio, TX

Hobbies: hanging out with family, brewing beer, making music

Isa Hernandez

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Role: 5th year PhD student

Education: BS in Biochemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Hometown: Kyle, TX

Hobbies: soccer, cooking, hanging out with family and friends

Danae Biscardi

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Role: 4th year PhD student

Education: BS in Biochemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Hometown: Riverside, CA

Hobbies: reading, photography, baking and hanging with family

Alyson Grow

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Role: 3rd year PhD student

Education: BS in Chemistry, Stephen F Austin University

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Hometown: Haltom City, TX

Hobbies: reading, going to concerts, crafts, playing instruments

Elizabeth Forman

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Role: research assistant

Education: BS in Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis

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Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Hobbies: dance, paint and bullet journal

Kayylen Fernandez

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Role: 5th year PhD student

Education: BS in Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Hometown: San Antonio, TX

Hobbies: hiking, reading, hanging out with friends

Jyoti Shah Gupta

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Role: 4th year PhD student

Education: BS in Chemistry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

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Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal

Hobbies: travelling, exploring new things