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Jimmy Orjala
Principal Investigator
University of Illinois, Chicago
Work experience
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Top industry applications
Oncology & cancer therapeuticsPharmaceuticals and drug delivery
Expertise
Medicinal ChemistryMetabolomicsMicrobiologyOrganic Chemistry
Last updated Feb 2026
I'm working on
4 months ago
Natural products, metabolomics, microbiology, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry
About
Jimmy Orjala maps microbial chemical space to discover and optimize bioactive metabolites. He integrates genome mining and metabolomics with structure elucidation to connect molecules to biosynthetic pathways and probe microbiome–drug interactions relevant to oncology.
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