{"id":2977,"date":"2026-04-30T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/?page_id=2977"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:05:59","slug":"jaden-jun-ph-d-m-s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/jaden-jun-ph-d-m-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Jun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/04\/Jaden-Jun.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2978\" style=\"width:292px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/04\/Jaden-Jun.png 290w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/96\/2026\/04\/Jaden-Jun-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaden Jun, Ph.D., M.S.<br>Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences<br>School of Pharmacy and Health Professions<br>Email to: <a href=\"mailto:jjun@umes.edu\">jjun@umes.edu<\/a><br>Phone number :(410) 621-2020<br>Office: Suite 3118, Room 3150<br><br><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Kansas, in collaboration with the NCI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.S., Chemistry \u2013 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Jaden Jun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). Before joining UMES, he served as an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh. His work integrates organic synthesis, structure\u2013activity relationship studies, and chemical biology approaches to develop novel therapeutic candidates. Dr. Jun\u2019s research aims to advance the discovery of new treatments for cancer and other diseases through innovative molecular design. His research focuses on the development of novel small-molecule modulators to interrogate G protein\u2013coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling, with an emphasis on allosteric modulation and chemical biology approaches to control receptor function. Another major research focus is the design and synthesis of small molecules targeting DNA repair enzymes and other therapeutically relevant proteins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Jun\u2019s research is built on over 20 years of experience in medicinal chemistry across academia, industry, and government. After earning his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry in South Korea, he obtained an M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas in 2005 and worked at GlaxoSmithKline on the design and synthesis of HIV inhibitors. He later joined SAIC-Frederick at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he focused on drug design, natural product synthesis, process chemistry, and SAR analysis, collaborating with MD Anderson Cancer Center and the NIH. During this time, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Kansas in 2013 through a collaborative program with the NCI, leading to the discovery of novel inhibitors targeting TDP1 and A549 lung cancer cells. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training at the University of Kansas, where he developed rapid synthetic methodologies for bioactive sulfur-containing heterocycles and covalent probes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His laboratory primarily emphasizes medicinal synthetic chemistry, integrating computational modeling and molecular pharmacology to develop innovative tools and therapeutic leads that enable spatial and temporal control of signaling pathways relevant to inflammation, pain, bone disease, and neuroimmune disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Areas of Research Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Design and synthesis of small molecules as allosteric modulators for CB2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 CB2-OS probes: Novel small molecules discovery and development for bone disease<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Design and discovery of small-molecules\/modulators for p18 HSC ex vivo expansion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Group Webpage Link (will be updated)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?view_op=list_works&amp;hl=en&amp;hl=en&amp;user=7HnXRr4AAAAJ\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaden Jun, Ph.D., M.S.Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical SciencesSchool of Pharmacy and Health ProfessionsEmail to: jjun@umes.eduPhone number :(410) 621-2020Office: Suite 3118, Room 3150 Education Bio Dr. Jaden Jun is an Assistant Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). Before joining UMES, he served as an Assistant Research&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/jaden-jun-ph-d-m-s\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Jaden Jun<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2977","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}