about


Richard Van

    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oklahoma

    pre-IRTA Fellow, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH


A blend of scientific curiosity with cutting-edge computational techniques, Richard dives into the world of molecular interactions using advanced computer tools to unravel the mysteries driving life's biological processes.


In his research, he's focused on tasks like understanding how enzymes work through simulations and finding potential new drugs through computer-based screening. His projects are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in biochemistry, offering a glimpse into the future of scientific discovery.


Step into a world where each experiment is a step closer to unlocking the secrets of life.

Publications

Google Scholar

  1. Chen, Zhen, Chen, Jiahui, Mori, Wakana, Yi, Yongjia, Rong, Jian, Li, Yinlong, Leon, Erick R. C., Shao, Tuo, Song, Zhendong, Yamasaki, Tomoteru, Ishii, Hideki, Zhang, Yiding, Kokufuta, Tomomi, Hu, Kuan, Xie, Lin, Josephson, Lee, Van, Richard, Shao, Yihan, Factor, Stewart, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven H., "Preclinical evaluation of novel positron emission tomography (pet) probes for imaging leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (lrrk2)", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01687


  2. MacCuaig, William M., Wickizer, Carly, Van, Richard S., Buabeng, Emmanuel R., Lerner, Megan R., Grizzle, William E., Shao, Yihan, Henary, Maged, McNally, Lacey R., "Influence of structural moieties in squaraine dyes on optoacoustic signal shape and intensity", Chem, 2024, DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2023.11.016


Total: 2

  1. Zhang, Jing, Wickizer, Carly, Ding, Weihua, Van, Richard, Yang, Liuyue, Zhu, Biyue, Yang, Jun, Wang, Yanli, Wang, Yongle, Xu, Yulong, Zhang, Can, Shen, Shiqian, Wang, Changning, Shao, Yihan, Ran, Chongzhao, "In vivo three-dimensional brain imaging with chemiluminescence probes in alzheimer’s disease models", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310131120


  2. Pan, Xiaoliang, Van, Richard, Pu, Jingzhi, Nam, Kwangho, Mao, Yuezhi, Shao, Yihan, "Free energy profile decomposition analysis for qm/mm simulations of enzymatic reactions", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00973


  3. Yao, Songyuan, Van, Richard, Pan, Xiaoliang, Park, Ji H., Mao, Yuezhi, Pu, Jingzhi, Mei, Ye, Shao, Yihan, "Machine learning based implicit solvent model for aqueous-solution alanine dipeptide molecular dynamics simulations", RSC Advances, 2023, DOI: 10.1039/d2ra08180f


Total: 3

  1. Haider, Ahmed, Zhao, Chunyu, Wang, Lu, Xiao, Zhiwei, Rong, Jian, Xia, Xiaotian, Chen, Zhen, Pfister, Stefanie K., Mast, Natalia, Yutuc, Eylan, Chen, Jiahui, Li, Yinlong, Shao, Tuo, Warnock, Geoffrey I., Dawoud, Alyaa, Connors, Theresa R., Oakley, Derek H., Wei, Huiyi, Wang, Jinghao, Zheng, Zhihua, Xu, Hao, Davenport, April T., Daunais, James B., Van, Richard S., Shao, Yihan, Wang, Yuqin, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Gebhard, Catherine, Pikuleva, Irina, Levey, Allan I., Griffiths, William J., Liang, Steven H., "Assessment of cholesterol homeostasis in the living human brain", Science Translational Medicine, 2022, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adc9967


  2. Pan, Xiaoliang, Van, Richard, Epifanovsky, Evgeny, Liu, Jian, Pu, Jingzhi, Nam, Kwangho, Shao, Yihan, "Accelerating ab initio quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (qm/mm) molecular dynamics simulations with multiple time step integration and a recalibrated semiempirical qm/mm hamiltonian", The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02262


  3. Cheng, Ran, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Yang, Jing, Rong, Jian, Haider, Ahmed, Ogasawara, Daisuke, Van, Richard S., Shao, Tuo, Chen, Zhen, Zhang, Xiaofei, Calderon Leon, Erick R., Zhang, Yiding, Mori, Wakana, Kumata, Katsushi, Yamasaki, Tomoteru, Xie, Lin, Sun, Shaofa, Wang, Lu, Ran, Chongzhao, Shao, Yihan, Cravatt, Benjamin, Josephson, Lee, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven H., "A novel monoacylglycerol lipase-targeted 18f-labeled probe for positron emission tomography imaging of brown adipose tissue in the energy network", Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41401-022-00912-8


  4. Zhu, Biyue, Yang, Jing, Van, Richard, Yang, Fan, Yu, Yue, Yu, Astra, Ran, Kathleen, Yin, Keyi, Liang, Yingxia, Shen, Xunuo, Yin, Wei, Choi, Se H., Lu, Ying, Wang, Changning, Shao, Yihan, Shi, Liang, Tanzi, Rudolph E., Zhang, Can, Cheng, Yan, Zhang, Zhirong, Ran, Chongzhao, "Epitope alteration by small molecules and applications in drug discovery", Chemical Science, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/d2sc02819k


Total: 4

  1. Deng, Xiaoyun, Salgado-Polo, Fernando, Shao, Tuo, Xiao, Zhiwei, Van, Richard, Chen, Jiahui, Rong, Jian, Haider, Ahmed, Shao, Yihan, Josephson, Lee, Perrakis, Anastassis, Liang, Steven H., "Imaging autotaxin in vivo with 18f-labeled positron emission tomography ligands", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00913


  2. Rong, Jian, Mori, Wakana, Xia, Xiaotian, Schafroth, Michael A., Zhao, Chunyu, Van, Richard S., Yamasaki, Tomoteru, Chen, Jiahui, Xiao, Zhiwei, Haider, Ahmed, Ogasawara, Daisuke, Hiraishi, Atsuto, Shao, Tuo, Zhang, Yiding, Chen, Zhen, Pang, Fuwen, Hu, Kuan, Xie, Lin, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Kumata, Katsushi, Gou, Yuancheng, Fang, Yang, Gu, Shuyin, Wei, Huiyi, Bao, Liang, Xu, Hao, Collier, Thomas L., Shao, Yihan, Carson, Richard E., Cravatt, Benjamin F., Wang, Lu, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven H., "Novel reversible-binding pet ligands for imaging monoacylglycerol lipase based on the piperazinyl azetidine scaffold", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00747


  3. Pan, Xiaoliang, Yang, Junjie, Van, Richard, Epifanovsky, Evgeny, Ho, Junming, Huang, Jing, Pu, Jingzhi, Mei, Ye, Nam, Kwangho, Shao, Yihan, "Machine-learning-assisted free energy simulation of solution-phase and enzyme reactions", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00565


  4. Chen, Zhen, Mori, Wakana, Rong, Jian, Schafroth, Michael A., Shao, Tuo, Van, Richard S., Ogasawara, Daisuke, Yamasaki, Tomoteru, Hiraishi, Atsuto, Hatori, Akiko, Chen, Jiahui, Zhang, Yiding, Hu, Kuan, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Sun, Jiyun, Yu, Qingzhen, Collier, Thomas L., Shao, Yihan, Cravatt, Benjamin F., Josephson, Lee, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven H., "Development of a highly-specific 18f-labeled irreversible positron emission tomography tracer for monoacylglycerol lipase mapping", Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsb.2021.01.021


  5. Haider, Ahmed, Liang, Steven, Zhiwei, Xiao, Xia, Xiaotian, Kuang, Shi, Van, Richard, Chen, Jiahui, Zhao, Chunyu, Rong, Jian, "Subtype-selective vasopressin 1a receptor imaging by positron emission tomography", Nuclear Medicine and Biology, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/s0969-8051(21)00361-9


Total: 5

  1. Yamasaki, Tomoteru, Zhang, Xiaofei, Kumata, Katsushi, Zhang, Yiding, Deng, Xiaoyun, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Chen, Zhen, Mori, Wakana, Hu, Kuan, Wakizaka, Hidekatsu, Hatori, Akiko, Xie, Lin, Ogawa, Masanao, Nengaki, Nobuki, Van, Richard, Shao, Yihan, Sheffler, Douglas J., Cosford, Nicholas D. P., Liang, Steven H., Zhang, Ming-Rong, "Identification and development of a new positron emission tomography ligand 4-(2-fluoro-4-[11c]methoxyphenyl)-5-((1-methyl-1h-pyrazol-3-yl)methoxy)picolinamide for imaging metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 2 (mglu2)", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01991


  2. Yang, Jing, Yin, Wei, Van, Richard, Yin, Keyi, Wang, Peng, Zheng, Chao, Zhu, Biyue, Ran, Kathleen, Zhang, Can, Kumar, Mohanraja, Shao, Yihan, Ran, Chongzhao, "Turn-on chemiluminescence probes and dual-amplification of signal for detection of amyloid beta species in vivo", Nature Communications, 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17783-4


  3. Deng, Xiaoyun, Zhang, Yiding, Chen, Zhen, Kumata, Katsushi, Van, Richard, Rong, Jian, Shao, Tuo, Hatori, Akiko, Mori, Wakana, Yu, Qingzhen, Hu, Kuan, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Wey, Hsiao-Ying, Shao, Yihan, Josephson, Lee, Murtas, Giulia, Pollegioni, Loredano, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven, "Synthesis and preliminary evaluation of 4-hydroxy-6-(3-[11c]methoxyphenethyl)pyridazin-3(2h)-one, a 11c-labeled -amino acid oxidase (daao) inhibitor for pet imaging", Bioorganic \& Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127326


Total: 3

  1. Chen, Zhen, Mori, Wakana, Fu, Hualong, Schafroth, Michael A., Hatori, Akiko, Shao, Tuo, Zhang, Genwei, Van, Richard S., Zhang, Yiding, Hu, Kuan, Fujinaga, Masayuki, Wang, Lu, Belov, Vasily, Ogasawara, Daisuke, Giffenig, Pilar, Deng, Xiaoyun, Rong, Jian, Yu, Qingzhen, Zhang, Xiaofei, Papisov, Mikhail I., Shao, Yihan, Collier, Thomas L., Ma, Jun-An, Cravatt, Benjamin F., Josephson, Lee, Zhang, Ming-Rong, Liang, Steven H., "Design, synthesis, and evaluation of 18f-labeled monoacylglycerol lipase inhibitors as novel positron emission tomography probes", Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00936


Total: 1

presentations

oral

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. December, 2022

  • American Chemical Society: 65th Annual Pentasectional Meeting, Bartlesville, OK. October, 2022


poster

  • ACS Many Flavors of Chemistry, New Orleans, LA. March, 2024

  • Chemistry Energies: Southwest ACS Regional Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK. November, 2023

  • ACS Harnessing the Power of Data, San Francisco, CA. August, 2023

  • Oklahoma COBRE: 10th Annual Symposium in Structural Biology, Norman, OK. June, 2022

  • Pacifichem, Virtual. December, 2021

  • EMBO Bioexcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations , Virtual (UK). June, 2021

  • APS/ICTP-SAIFR Forum on Biological Physics: from Molecular to Macroscopic Scale, São Paulo, Brazil. March, 2020

  • 7th Annual Symposium on Structural Biology, Norman, OK. June, 2019

  • Oklahoma Section of the American Chemical Society: 64th Annual Pentasection Meeting, Norman, OK. April, 2019