Dmitriy Uchenik, Ph.D. immigrated from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Los Angeles in 1994. After receiving a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, he pursued a PhD in chemistry with Professor Christopher Vanderwal at the University of California, Irvine. In 2017, he took on the role of Mass Spectrometry Technician with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Having tired of endless summer, Dmitriy allowed himself to be lured away to the College of Pharmacy at The Ohio State University, where he now styles himself as the Shared Instrumentation Facility Director.
Deepa Krishnan, Ph.D., is a senior research associate and lab manager in the Shared Instrumentation Facility, College of Pharmacy. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, working with Prof. Leung Pak-Hing on synthesizing chiral N-Heterocyclic carbenes and their metal chelates with structural and stereochemical investigation. She joined the Instrumentation facility at the College of Pharmacy in 2017. Her work in the facility includes training users, routine maintenance, and troubleshooting of the wide variety of instruments in the lab. She has expertise in bioanalytical method development and quantification of small molecules using LC-MS/MS methods. She assists in developing mass spectrometry methods, especially for MS/MS experiments. She is responsible for managing a Shared Radiation room for the college.