Kou Research Group​

Graduate Students

• Email Address: mlara032 AT ucr.edu
• Past Experience: Kurth Lab, UCD -- Synthesis of 2H-Indazoles and p-formylazobenzenes
• Biography: Manuel Larach, aka Manny, was born and raised in El Salvador. He obtained a B.S in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. There, he spent one and a half years working in the Kurth lab on the synthesis of heterocycles and azo acyl hydrazones. He is currently working on the synthesis of natural products and aspires to work in industry on the synthesis of molecules with biological properties. Likes to eat, sleep, watch Netflix and soccer games.

• Email Address: ycao086@ucr.edu
• Past Experience: B.Eng. Shanghai Institute of Technology

• Email Address: jdebo006 AT ucr DOT edu
• Past Experience: Baxter Lab, UC Merced
• Biography: Justin was born in Riverside, CA but relocated to central California for his B.S. in chemistry from UC Merced. There he explored electrochemistry in the Baxter lab and is interested in applying it to natural products synthesis at UCR. Outside of the lab, he likes going to the gym, taking his dog on beach trips, and MMA.

• Email Address: bluja003 AT ucr DOT edu

• Past Experience: University of Hawaii, Manoa (Tius Group)

• Email Address: sabra023 AT ucr DOT edu

• Email Address: lrang004 AT ucr DOT edu

• Previous Experience: UC Irvine (Rychnovsky Group)

• Previous Experience: USC (Williams Group)

Undergraduate Students

Casey Souders

Thomas Le

Ashley Maeshiro

Jaime Reveles Jr.