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Ana Brown

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty

Biography

Ana Koperniku Brown obtained her BSc in Pharmacy in 2011 and MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2013 from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2013 she started at UBC as a PhD student and her doctoral thesis focused on the chemistry of N-silylated amines as precursors to diheteroarylamides and as substrates in transition metal catalysed reactions to generate novel alkyl substituted amines. In 2019, she started as a PDF in drug discovery at Stanford University.

Expertise

  • Drug design

Research Areas

  • Drug discovery
  • Chemical biology

Education

  • The University of British Columbia, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2019
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, MSc in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 2013
  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, BSc in Pharmacy, 2011

Prior Experience

  • Postdoctoral Scholar in Drug Discovery, Stanford University (2019-2022)

Awards & Distinctions

  • The University of British Columbia Four-Year Fellowship, 2016
  • The University of British Columbia NSERC CREATE SusSyn Fellow, 2015

Selected Publications

  • Konstantina Stavropoulou, Angeliki Kaimaki, Maria Nikolaou, Ana K. Brown, Andrew Tsotinis, Martic C. Taylor, John M. Kelly and Ioannis P. Papanastasiou, New Trypanosoma brucei acting derivatives incorporating 1-(4-phenyl)adamantane and 1-(4-phenoxyphenyl)adamantane, RSC Med. Chem., 2025, 16, 2441
  • Ana Koperniku and Nicholas A. Meanwell, Tying the Knot with Lysine, Nat. Rev. Chem., 2024, 8, 235
  • Ana Koperniku, A Series of Selective Events, Nat. Rev. Chem., 2021, 5, 674