Sentences with phrase «for medicinal chemistry»

You should have a passion for medicinal chemistry and enjoy and excel at making molecules using modern methods of organic synthesis.

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«We're not only about discovery science but also translation science from which we can derive benefits for mankind,» explains Mark von Itzstein, executive director of the Institute for Glycomics and professor of medicinal chemistry and federation fellow at GriffithUniversity.

«For 20 years we have been using rational bioengineering to modify the chemical structures of clinically important natural products — using genetics to make a new molecule in a process that parallels medicinal chemistry — and that's what we were doing when we stumbled upon this,» said Professor Barrie Wilkinson from the John Innes Centre.

A postgraduate medicinal chemistry course has been proposed at the National University of Singapore that will aim to help meet an anticipated increase in demand for chemists.

The use of halogen atoms is a promising approach for compound optimization in medicinal chemistry.

After the initial screening, potential «hits» were optimized by medicinal chemistry and tested for potency, specificity, and toxicity.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

His research interests include medicinal chemistry, nanotechnology, drug delivery, cell trafficking and molecular imaging for theranostic applications in cancer and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., professor and director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), and Anthony Pinkerton, Ph.D., director of medicinal chemistry at SBP's Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, are collaborators on the effort.

Liu, J., Yu, L. F., Eaton, J. B., Caldarone, B., Cavino, K., Ruiz, C., Terry, M., Fedolak, A., Wang, D., Ghavami, A., Lowe, D. A., Brunner, D., Lukas, R. J., Kozikowski, A. P. Discovery of Isoxazole Analogs of Sazetidine - A as Selective alpha4 beta2 - Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (nAChR) Partial Agonists for the Treatment of Depression, Journal of medicinal chemistry 2011 54, 7280 - 7288

Taken together, these data suggest that indole derivatives, although their IC50 values are in the micromolar range, represent functional leads for further development of novel CXCR4 antagonists useful in medicinal chemistry programs.

In September the University of Kansas announced he would receive the 2018 Edward E. Smissman Lectureship for outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology.

Our projects are based on chemical biology (use of chemical molecules for understanding biological phenomena) and medicinal chemistry (compounds with therapeutic properties).

«To turn them into real therapeutics for testing, we will now optimize their properties through medicinal chemistry, so they are stable in the body, enter the brain, and safely engage the correct target in this fragile organ.»