Jhewelle Fitz-Henley
Jhewelle Fitz-Henley

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212 Burrill Hall
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Assistant Director of STEM Programming

Biography

Dr. Jhewelle (Joe-EL) Fitz-Henley joined the School of MCB in August 2023. In her role as the Assistant Director of STEM Programming, she oversees the following programs:

Education

PhD in Pharmaceutical Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS in Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Highlighted Publications

  1. Cao, X.; Yang, D.; Parvathareddy, J.; Chu, Y.-K; Kim, E.; Fitz-Henley, J.N. et al. Efficacy of a brain-penetrant  antiviral in lethal Venezuelan and eastern equine encephalitis mouse models. Sci. Trans. Med. 2023, 15 (691)
  2. Holzhausen, E. A.; Fitz-Henley, J. N.; Theisen, C. H. Online Resource Comparison: Applying the CRAAP Test  to Vaccine Misinformation. CourseSource 2022, 9
  3. Fitz-Henley, J. N.; Rozema, S. D.; and Golden, J. E. Dihydropyrazinoquinazolinones via SN2 Sulfamidate Ring-Opening and a Sequential Quinazolinone-Amidine Rearrangement Strategy (SQuAReS). J. Org. Chem. 2022,  87(21), 14889-14898
  4. Jaffett, V. A.; ǂ Fitz-Henley, J. N.;ǂ Khalifa, M. M.; and Golden, J. E. Diastereoselective multicomponent synthesis of tetrahydro-1H-pyrrolopyrazino[2,1-b]quinazolin-11(5H)-ones via sequential quinazolinone rearrangement & intramolecular ring closure of (Z)-benzamidines, Org. Lett. 2021, 23 (15), 5799–5803. 
    ǂDenotes equal contribution

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