President: Sengen Sun, PhD
AmeriNutra, Inc.
(DBA: Isotonic OPC Antioxidants, Inc)
7950 Silverton Ave., Suite 121
San Diego, CA 92126
U. S. A.
Dr. Sun is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of natural product chemistry, drug formulation and drug discovery. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 6 patents, and authored/co-authored more 40 scientific publications. An example of his scientific publications is:
Sengen Sun. Bone Disease Drug Discovery: Examining the Interactions between Osteoblast and Osteoclast; Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets 2008, 12(2), 239-251 (Invited review).
Dr. Sun gained his first hands-on experience in natural product chemistry when he was a graduate student from 1989-1994 at McMaster University of Canada. He worked with Professor Paul Harrison on polyketide biosynthesis and biomimetic synthesis, published 6 scientific articles.
Dr. Sun had his postdoctoral training for 3 years (1994-1997) at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He worked with Professor Joseph Piccirilli on nucleic acid natural products, coauthored 7 scientific publications in journals such as NATURE , Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, NATURE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, Biochemistry, etc.
Dr. Sun worked at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R & D, Raritan, New Jersey from 1997-1999 under the direct supervision of Senior Vice President, Dr. Bill Murray. Within 2 years, He published 5 scientific articles and filed 2 patents on drug discovery.
Please see his detailed resume:
PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008-Present, President, AmeriNutra, Inc.
1999-2008, Senior Scientist, DPI/BioFocusDPI, San Diego, California.
1997-1999, Research Scientist, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R & D, Raritan, New Jersey.
POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING
1994-1997, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
EDUCATION
1989-1994, PhD, Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Canada.
PATENTS
1.Michael Hadd; Yuanwei Chen; Yan Feng; Sengen Sun; Brian Seed. Spiroheterocyclic glycosides and methods of use. WO 2008/083200.
2.Abreo, Melwyn; Chafeev, Mikhail; Chakka, Nagasree; Chowdhury, Sultan; Fu, Jian-Min; Gschwend, Heinz W.; Holladay, Mark W.; Hou, Duanjie; Kamboj, Rajender; Kodumuru, Vishnumurthy; Li, Wenbao; Liu, Shifeng; Raina, Vandna; Sun, Sengen; Sun, Shaoyi; Sviridov, Serguei; Tu, Chi; Winther, Michael D.; Zhang, Zaihui. Pyridazine Derivatives in Combination Therapy. WO 2006086445.
3.Abreo, Melwyn; Chafeev, Mikhail; Chakka, Nagasree; Chowdhury, Sultan; Fu, Jian-Min; Gschwend, Heinz W.; Holladay, Mark W.; Hou, Duanjie; Kamboj, Rajender; Kodumuru, Vishnumurthy; Li, Wenbao; Liu, Shifeng; Raina, Vandna; Sun, Sengen; Sun, Shaoyi; Sviridov, Serguei; Tu, Chi; Winther, Michael D.; Zhang, Zaihui. Pyridazine Derivatives and Their Use as Therapeutic Agents. WO 2005011655.
4.Chakka, Nagasree; Chafeev, Mikhail; Chowdhury, Sultan; Fu, Jian-Min; Hou, Duanjie; Kamboj, Rajender; Kodumuru, Vishnumurthy; Liu, Shifeng; Raina, Vandna; Sun, Shaoyi; Sviridov, Serguei; Winther, Michael D.; Zhang, Zaihui; Abreo, Melwyn; Holladay, Mark W.; Li, Wenbao; Sun, Sengen; Tu, Chi; Gschwend, Heinz W. Preparation of pyridazine derivatives as stearoyl-CoA desaturase inhibitors for the treatment of diabetes and other diseases. US 2006009454.
5.Sengen Sun and William V. Murray; Methods for the Synthesis of Complex Reduced Isoindole, Isooxyindole and Isooxyquinoline Libraries. US 6667406.
6.Mishra, Pranab; Sun, Sengen; Murray, William V. Preparation of densely functionalized pyrrolidine libraries in situ and resin bound via an intramolecular Diels-Alder (IMDA) reaction. US 6512120.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
7.Sengen Sun. Bone disease drug discovery: examining the interactions between osteoblast and osteoclast; Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets 2008, 12(2), 239-251 (Invited review).
8.William V. Murray, Pranab K. Mishra, Ignatius J. Turchi, Dorota Sawicka, Amy Maden and Sengen Sun; An intramolecular oxo Diels–Alder approach to 1-oxo-1,2,3,3a,4,7a-hexahydro-pyrano[3,4-c]pyrrole-4-carboxylic acid ethyl esters, Tetrahedron 2003 59, 8955-8961.
9.Murray, William V.; Mishra, Pranab K.; Sun, Sengen; Maden, Amy. Synthesis of densely functionalized pyrrolidinone templates by an intramolecular oxo-Diels-Alder reaction. Tetrahedron Letters 2002, 43(41), 7389-7392.
10. Sengen Sun, Ignatius J. Turchi, Dawei Xu, and William V. Murray; Vinyl Benzene as Dienes in Mild Solid Phase Diels-Alder Reactions; Journal of Organic Chemistry 2000, 65, 2555-2559.
11.Sengen Sun and William V. Murray; Solid Phase Diels-Alder Reactions of Amino Acid Derived Trienes; Journal of Organic Chemistry 1999, 64, 5941-5945.
12.William V. Murray, Sengen Sun, Ignatius J. Turchi, Frank K. Brown, and A. Diane Gauthier; Diels-Alder Reactions of Amino Acid-derived Trienes; Journal of Organic Chemistry 1999, 64, 5930-5940.
13.Sengen Sun; Technology Evaluation: SELEX; Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics 2000, 2, 100-105 (Invited Review).
14.Matta CF, Cow CC, Sun S, Harrison P, Britten J; Twisted amides: crystal and optimized structures, and molecular geometry analysis of acetylated glycoluril; Journal of Molecular Structures 2000, 523, 241-255.
15.Shu-ou Shan, Aiichiro Yoshida, Sengen Sun, Joseph A. Piccirilli, and Daniel Herschlag; Three metal ions at the active site of the Tetrahymena group I ribozyme; Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences 1999, 96: 12299-12304.
16.Chad A. Brautigam, Sengen Sun, Joseph A. Piccirilli, and Thomas A. Steitz* ; Structures of Normal Single-Stranded DNA and Deoxyribo-3'-S-phosphorothiolates Bound to the 3'-5' Exonucleolytic Active Site of DNA Polymerase I from Escherichia coli; Biochemistry 1999; 38(2); 696-704.
17.Sengen Sun, L. Edwards, P. Harrison; Glycoluril as an efficient molecular template for Claisen-type condensations; J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1., 1998, 437-448.
18.Aiichiro Yoshida; Sengen Sun; Joseph A. Piccirilli; A New Metal Ion Interaction in the Tetrahemena Ribozyme Reaction Revealed by Double Sulfur Substitution; Nature Structural Biology 1999, Volume 6 Number 4 Page 318 – 321.
19.Sengen Sun, C. Cow, P. Harrison, J. Britten; X- rays crystal structures of glycoluril and its acyl derivatives. Can. J. Chem.1998, 76(3), 301-306.
20.Sengen Sun, A. Yoshida, J. Piccirilli; Synthesis of 3’-thioribonucleosides and their incorporation into oligonucleotides; RNA 1997, 3, 1352.
21.Sengen Sun, J. Piccirilli; Synthesis of 3’-thiouridine and its phosphoramidite; Nucleosides & Nucleotides 1997, 16, 1543-1545.
22.E. Sontheimer, Sengen Sun, J. Piccirilli; Metal ion catalysis during pre-mRNA splicing; Nature 1997, 388, 801-805.
23.Sengen Sun, X.-Q. Tang, A. Merchant, A. Potluri, J. Piccirilli; Efficient synthesis of 5-thioalkyluridines; J. Org. Chem. 1996, 61, 5708.
24.Sengen Sun, P. Harrison; Repetitive template-directed acyl transfer to mimic steps in the biosynthesis of polyketides and fatty acids; J. Chem. Soc. Chem Commun. 1994, 2235.
25.Sengen Sun; Template-Directed Condensations between Acyl Units, Ph.D. Thesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1994.
26.Sengen Sun, P. Harrison; Efficient Claisen-type condensation between acyl units bound to a molecular template; Tetrahedron Lett. 1992, 33, 7715.
27.Q. Dai, Sengen Sun; Synthesis and Tumour Cell Killing Activities of Tetraazaannulenocopper(II) Complexes (see Chem. Abstr. 120:93970a); Beijing Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 1993, 19(3), 1-4.
28.F. Zhai, Q. Dai, Sengen Sun; Quantitative Application of Resonance Theory to Spectroscopic and Polarographic Behavior of the Fluoranthenoid Series (see Chem Abstr 102;23790w); Beijing Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 1984, 10(3), 31-41.
29.Sengen Sun; Discovery of electronic mechanism of concerted cycloadditions based on quantum mechanic calculations. 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL March 25-29, 2007.
30.Sengen Sun; Mechanism of concerted cycloadditions – a philosophical challenge of scientific explanation. A 40 minute lecture at International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry: Ninth Summer Symposium August 7 - 11, 2005, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
31.Mishra, Pranab K.; Sun, Sengen; Murray, William V.; Synthesis of densely functionalized pyrrolidine templates via IMDA directed remote hydroxylation. 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, August 26-30, 2001.
32.Sengen Sun, Ignatius J. Turchi, and Frank K. Brown; Chiral Inductive Diels-Alder Reactions of Novel Amino Acid Derived Trienes; 217th ACS Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 21-25, 1999.
33.William V. Murray and Sengen Sun; Stereoselective synthesis of functionalized hydroisoindoles via mild solid phase Diels-Alder Reactions; 217th ACS Meeting, Anaheim, California, March 21-25, 1999.
34.Sengen Sun, J. Piccirilli; Synthesis of Oligonucleotides Containing 3'-Thioribonucleo-sides; Gordon Research Conference on Purines, Pyrimidines and Related Substances, June 29-July 4, 1997, New Port, RI.
35.Sengen Sun, J. Piccirilli; Synthesis of 3'-Thioinosine Phosphoramidite and Its Incorporation into Oligonucleotides; XII International Roundtable, Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Their Biological Applications, September 15-19, 1996, La Jolla, California.
36.Sengen Sun, X. Tang, B. Patterson, Aziz Merchant, P.S.R. Anjaneyulu and J. A. Piccirilli; Engineering Disulfide Bonds into tRNA-phe Using 5-(Thioalky)uridine Phosphoramidites; XII International Roundtable, Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Their Biological Applications, September 15-19, 1996, La Jolla, California.
37.Sengen Sun, X. Tang, B. Patterson, J. Piccirilli; Synthesis of 5-(Thioalky)uridines and Their Incorporation into RNA Molecules; The First Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, 1996, Madison, Wisconsin.
38.Sontheimer, Sengen Sun, J. Piccirilli; Metal Ion Catalysis in Pre-mRNA Splicing; The First Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, 1996, Madison, Wisconsin.
39.Sengen Sun, P. Harrison; Intramolecular Acyl Transfer Induced by Deprotonation and Borohydride Reduction; 76th CIC (Canadian Institute of Chemistry) Conference, 1993, Sherbrook, Quebec.
40.Sengen Sun, L. Edwards, P. Harrison; Intramolecular Claisen-Type Condensation Using a Glycoluril Template; 33rd Natl. Org. Chem. Symp., 1993, Bozeman, Montana.
41.Sengen Sun, P. Harrison; Efficient Claisen-Type Condensation between Acyl Units on a Molecular Template; 75th CIC Conference, 1992, Edmonton, Alberta.
42.Sengen Sun, P. Harrison; Progress towards a Biomimetic Synthesis of Polyketides and Fatty Acids; 74th CIC Conference, 1991, Hamilton, Ontario.
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