Sentences with phrase «chemistry drug design»

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We currently do not know how these genetic risk factors affect the chemistry of the brain and cause specific symptoms, so it is not yet possible for scientists to design drugs to relieve symptoms shown by people with a particular genetic variant.

«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.

His multidisciplinary academic research spans computer modeling, protein - protein / protein - ligand structural analyses, drug design, and synthetic medicinal chemistry, incorporating the principles of chemogenomics.

«Maybe we can design a drug that would specifically target this [novel] chemistry,» says Cross, who notes that the virus's reliance on M2 might make mutating against such a specialized drug difficult.

With «a little chemistry and some trial and error,» they should be able to design drugs which mimic arachdonic acid, but plug the pocket.

Cosa's research group specializes in single - molecule fluorescence techniques, while Sleiman's uses DNA chemistry to design new materials for drug delivery and diagnostic tools.

I got a new laboratory of research in bioinformatics and computational chemistry, in which we develop mostly studies in drug design and in silico evaluation of environmental pollutants, and I also proposed a new master program in Bioinformatics.

At the University of Alberta as a graduate student in medicinal chemistry he designed pain - relief drugs.