Faculty with a focus in Medicinal Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry involves the study of all compounds that may have a beneficial effect on living organisms. The discipline can be divided into several overlapping areas, including; how drugs act (mechanism of action); the design of new drugs and the improvement of known ones; the relationship of drug structure to drug activity (Structure-Activity Relationships, or SAR); and the absorption, distribution and metabolism of drugs. Medicinal Chemistry requires an extensive background in organic chemistry, but other areas of chemistry are also important (e.g., biochemistry, and analytical chemistry), as well as related disciplines outside of chemistry, such as pharmacology.
Faculty with a focus in Medicinal Chemistry include the following (explanation of the symbols, *, §, ‡ are listed below):
Adeboye Adejare, Ph.D. *
- Drug targeting
- Mechanisms of neurodegeneration
- Chemistry of fluoroaromatic compounds
- Pharmaceutical profiling
Guillermo Moyna, Ph.D. ‡
- Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
- Computational chemistry
- Computer-assisted rational drug design
Research Advising Ability
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May serve as a research advisor for undergraduate students |
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Research Professors from other departments who may serve as research advisors for graduate students in their appropriate area of expertise |
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May serve as a research advisor for both undergraduate and graduate students |