Cosford had been investigating ULK1
using medicinal chemistry and chemical biology, and had identified some promising lead compounds using rational design.
Not exact matches
Sylvie Garneau - Tsodikova's research aims to understand and combat bacterial and fungal resistance by
using tools from
medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, and structural biology.
«Modifications of the treatment regimens, additional optimization of the delivery methods via the
use of hydrogels, and structural modifications of the compounds via
medicinal chemistry could ensure even better results with CDK2 inhibitors in treating hearing loss in humans.»
«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.
The
use of halogen atoms is a promising approach for compound optimization in
medicinal chemistry.
«All these are commonly
used in
medicinal chemistry either as final drug compounds or intermediate compounds from which the final compounds are made,» Yu said.
You should have a passion for
medicinal chemistry and enjoy and excel at making molecules
using modern methods of organic synthesis.
Promising compounds are being generated
using established high throughput screening by
medicinal chemistry and are being tested in preclinical animal models.
Our projects are based on chemical biology (
use of chemical molecules for understanding biological phenomena) and
medicinal chemistry (compounds with therapeutic properties).
Hits identified from a first iteration screen can be fed into a
medicinal chemistry program or converted into new baits (Bait B, center left in Figure) and
used in a second iteration screen to identify more potent molecules.