Sentences with phrase «identifying small animal models»

The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has created an urgent need for identifying small animal models as a first step toward developing vaccines and treatments to fight the infection.

Not exact matches

Current work focuses on identifying novel Eph receptor - targeting agents (such as peptides and small molecules) as well as improving the existing ones in collaboration with medicinal chemists and structural biologists, and evaluating them in cell culture and in vivo animal models.

Thus, the analytical tools developed by the Schroeder lab to identify structures and functions of biogenic small molecules will be transferable to other animal models.