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Drug Discovery

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Emerging and re-emerging pathogens, coupled with the ascendency of antimicrobial resistance, are driving the need to discover new therapeutics to treat future pandemics. Members of our faculty are using a combination of computational, experimental, translational, and clinical models to discover new ways to treat disease.

Areas of interest

    • Anti-malarial drug development
    • New cancer therapeutics/chemotherapy
    • Novel antibiotics
    • Diabetes

    Faculty