Building a Successful Drug Discovery Program in Academia
Speaker: Shaomeng Wang (U Mich)
Protein Domain Mimetics as Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions
Speaker: Bobby Arora (NYU)
Developing New Reactions from Old Functional Groups: DNA-photocleavage and Bioorthogonal Chemistry
Speaker: Igor Alabugin (FSU)
CBMC’s Bryan Roth Elected to Institute of Medicine
Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a prestigious national organization of the top professionals in various fields inside and outside of medicine dedicated to independent analysis and science-based recommendations on important health issues. Roth … Read more
Bowers Awarded $750,000 Beckman Young Investigator Award
Albert Bowers, PhD, is the recipient of a 2014 Beckman Young Investigator Award, a four-year, $750,000 award that recognizes the nation’s most innovative young scientists. Bowers is an assistant professor in the Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry. Bowers … Read more
Grad Students Kapadia, Claypool Win WVU Research Forum Awards
Two graduate students won awards for their research at WVU’s pharmacy research forum on June 12–13. MOPH’s Chintan Kapadia placed first in the podium presentations, and CBMC’s Sarah Claypool placed third in the poster presentations. Two UNC Eshelman School of … Read more
Fourches Receives Development Award to Find New Cancer Drug Candidates
Denis Fourches, PhD, a research assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has received a $7,500 Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support his search for small-molecule inhibitors that selectively … Read more
School Spinoff NeuroGate Receives $250,000 Grant
NeuroGate Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical spinoff company founded by UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy professor Harold Kohn, PhD, has received a $250,000 Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Founded in 2011, Neurogate has … Read more
Roth-Led Team Develops Method to Create Multi-Targeting Drugs
An international research collaboration led by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Dundee in Scotland has developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at … Read more