Curriculum vitae

Work Experience

• Enveda Biosciences, Platform Chemistry Intern, (Summer 2025)
• XSig/Cross-Disciplinary Science Institute at Gettysburg College, Biophysics and Biochemistry Research, (Summer 2018 and 2019)

Education and Experience

• State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. (Expected May 2026)
  • Ph.D. Computational Chemistry, Bio Simulation Lab
  • Advisor: Hung T. Nguyen
• Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA. (2017-2021)
  • B.S. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Advisor: Tim Funk
  • Thesis: “Synthesis of cyanuric chloride-based synthetic lipids”

Publications

(1) Zhang, H.; Maity, H.; Nguyen T. H. Ion-Dependent Structural Ensemble of Single-Stranded RNA Homopolymers: Effect of Temperature and Magnesium Concentration from Coarse-Grained Simulations. (Manuscript in preparation)

(2) Zhang, H.; Fang, M.; Lin, Q. Photo-Activatable Reagents for Bioorthogonal Ligation Reactions. Top Curr Chem (Z) 2023, 382 (1), 1. pdf

(3) Fang, M.; Kumar, G. S.; Racioppi, S.; Zhang, H.; Rabb, J. D.; Zurek, E.; Lin, Q. Hydrazonyl Sultones as Stable Tautomers of Highly Reactive Nitrile Imines for Fast Bioorthogonal Ligation Reaction. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (18), 9959–9964. pdf

Presentations

• Invited guest lecturer by Dr. Viviana Monje on MD simulation (04/03/2025)
• University at Buffalo RNA Club (03/10/2025)
• 2025 Biophysical Society Meeting (02/19/2025)
• 2024 New York RNA Symposium (10/14/2024): pdf (Outstanding Poster).
• 41st Graduate student symposium at SUNY Buffalo (05/22/2024): pdf

Teaching

• Computational Chemistry (Spring 2025)
• Organic Chemistry (Spring 2024)
• Physical Chemistry for Life Sciences (Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024)
• Honors Organic Chemistry (Fall 2022)
• General Chemistry (Fall 2021)

Awards

• Academic Excellence Award, State University of New York (Spring 2025)
• John B. Zinn Chemistry Research Award, Gettysburg College (Spring 2021)