Jimmy Orjala, PhD

Jimmy Orjala, PhD, is Professor and Associate Head for Research of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Retzky College of Pharmacy at UIC. He joined UIC in 2004. Research in the Orjala Lab focuses on the discovery of novel anticancer and antimicrobial metabolites from freshwater cyanobacteria using genomic tools, mass spectrometry and spectroscopic techniques. The Orjala Strain Library is one of the largest repositories of North American freshwater cyanobacteria in the United States. Environmental samples are collected from diverse environments such as temperate lakes, rainforests, savannas, boreal forests and subtropical wetlands.