← Vekilov Research Group Team Former Graduate Student

Wenchuan Ma

Ph.D.

Research Focus

Crystallization mechanisms of antimalarial drugs (Co-advised with Dr. Jeffrey Rimer)

Publications

2025

Ma, W.; Verma, L.; Lee, H.; Pan, W.; Sherman, M.; Sullivan, D.; Rimer, J.; Palmer, J.; Vekilov, P.

A nonclassical pathway of β-hematin crystal nucleation enables its suppression by antimalarials

Communications Chemistry

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2025

Chakraborty, D.; Ma, W.; Vekilov, P.; Rimer, J.

Role of Mesoscopic Solute-Rich Clusters in Cholesterol Crystallization

Chemistry of Materials

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2025

Chakraborty, D.; Ma, W.; Wang, X.; Chu, Z.; Yang, T.; Warzecha, M.; Vekilov, P.; Rimer, J.

Direct observation of cholesterol monohydrate crystallization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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2023

Ma, W.; Balta, V.; Pan, W.; Rimer, J.; Sullivan, D.; Vekilov, P.

Nonclassical mechanisms to irreversibly suppress β-hematin crystal growth

Communications Biology

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2021

Ma, W.; Balta, V.; West, R.; Newlin, K.; Miljanić, O.; Sullivan, D.; Vekilov, P.; Rimer, J.

A second mechanism employed by artemisinins to suppress Plasmodium falciparum hinges on inhibition of hematin crystallization

Journal of Biological Chemistry

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