
The PI: Sebastian Pomplun
s.j.pomplun@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Permanent Staff

Research assistant: Dr. Hugo Minnee
h.minnee@lic.leidenuniv.nl
PhDs

Brecht Ellenbroek
b.d.ellenbroek@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Design and synthesis of synthetic transcription factors

Edith van der Nol
e.a.van.der.nol@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Combinatorial small molecule discovery

Miguel Mata
j.m.apolonia.da.mata@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Combinatorial covalent ligand discovery

Jingming Liu
j.liu@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Targeting RNA binding proteins

Thanasis Patsos
a.patsos@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Protein Protein Interaction inhibitors

Gianluca Turco
g.turco@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Synthetic Macrocycle discovery
Postdocs

Dr. Sean McKenna
s.m.mckenna@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
High throughput drug discovery
Virtual screening + parallel synthesis
Co-supervised with Prof. van Westen and Prof. Heitman

Dr. Mike Filius
m.filius@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Synthetic antibodies
Collaboration with https://barzlab.com/

Dr. Monika Gnatzy
m.t.gnatzy@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Affinity selections in live cells

Dr. Patryk Krajczy
p.p.krajczy@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl
Exonuclease inhibitors
Master students

Ramon Rooth
Macrocycles with backbone methylations

Vincent Sul
Synthetic antibodies
Femke Boxman
Automated synthesis for rapid hit SAR

Ruoxi Zhao
Exonuclease 1 inhibitors

Malissa Broos
RNA binding protein ligands
Alumni
Jan Pascal Kahler (postdoc 2023-2025) – now patent law Muenchen
Damiano Arella (Master student 2022) – now PhD Uni Wuerzburg
Benthe Smit (Master student 2023)
Cherina Lin (Master student 2023)
Amardhiko Tirtosentono (Master student 2024)
Qing Qing Gao (Master student 2024)
Zenshuo Luo (Master student 2025)
Henrick Chong (Master student 2025)
Sean Malik (Master student 2024) – now PhD Feringa group
Mallory Fortes (Master student 2025)
Jeroen Kortekaas (Master student 2025)
Jesse Maasland (Master student 2025)