Dr. Samy Meroueh is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a member of the Cancer Center at Illinois.  He is a co-founder of Kovina Therapeutics.  He was previously a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Indiana University School of Medicine.  Dr. Meroueh received his PhD in the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University in the laboratory of William L. Hase.  As a postdoc, he was trained by Dr. Shahriar Mobashery at the University of Notre Dame. He was co-mentored by Dr. Jed Fisher, a bioorganic and medicinal chemist.  In his laboratory, he develops small molecules that modulate challenging proteins, such as members of the RAS and Rho GTPase superfamily, transcription factors such as TEAD and co-activator YAP, and proteins involved in tight protein-protein interactions like the urokinase receptor and the HPV E6 oncogene.