Jay Conrad

Jay Conrad is an Associate Professor at UCSF's Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, specializing in medicinal chemistry approaches to neurodegenerative disorders. He develops synthetic chemistry methods for creating therapeutic compounds targeting Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

His lab focuses on:

• Designing brain-permeable compounds
• Photoredox catalysis for biomolecule modification
• Copper-catalyzed coupling reactions
• Blood-brain barrier transport mechanisms

Recent work includes developing water-soluble iridium catalysts for physiological environments and molecular modeling of efflux transporter interactions.