Fast Facts About the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products

• Fourteen faculty members: ten primary tenure-track appointees, two tenure-track joint appointees (with primary appointment in other UNC-Chapel Hill departments), and four research professors
• Approximately 20,000 square feet of laboratory space on two floors of Beard Hall
• Extensive collaborations among faculty (both within and outside the division)
• Thirty 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
• Outstanding common-use equipment within divisional space:
• High-resolution liquids NMR facility (300- and 500-MHz spectrometers)
• Digital imaging and photodocumentation equipment
• Phosphorimaging
• Molecular graphics workstations
• Scintillation and gamma counters
• Microplate readers and automated liquid handling devices for HTS
• Steady- and transient-state spectrofluorimetry
• Tissue culture
• HPLC and FPLC devices
• Combinatorial synthesis and automated purification
• State-of-the-art university-run core facilities
• Oligonucleotide Synthesis Cores (twp)
• Protein Synthesis/Sequencing Cores (two)
• DNA Sequencing Core
• Tissue Culture Core
• Flow Cytometry Core
• Structural Biology Core
• Mass Spectrometry Core
• Digital Video Microscopy Core
• Transgenic and Homologous Recombination Core
• Molecular Modeling/Computer Graphics Core
• Macromolecular Interactions Facility