- 15 faculty members: 12 primary tenure-track appointees, 5 secondary appointees (with primary appointment in other UNC-CH departments), and 6 research professors
- Over 20,000 square feet of laboratory space on 2 floors of Beard Hall (over half of which has been renovated in the last year)
- Extensive collaborations among faculty (both within and outside the division)
- 35 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral scientists
- Strengths in multidisciplinary research related to discovery and characterization of pharmaceutically relevant small molecules, natural products, and their biomolecular targets:
- Synthesis and structure-activity characterization of pharmaceutically relevant small molecules and natural products
- Bioorganic and chemical biology studies of the properties of designed small-molecule ligands and their cognate drug targets, including proteins, nucleic acids, and glycoconjugates
- Combinatorial biochemistry and proteomics for the identification of novel signaling pathways and drug targets
- Structural biology and dynamics of drug-protein interactions
- Chemoinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular modeling
- Outstanding common-use equipment within divisional space:
- State-of-the-art university-run core facilities
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