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Drug Discovery

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Emerging and re-emerging pathogens, coupled with 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

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    Anne Brown , bio

    Associate Professor in Research & Informatics Professor of Practice Data Science Faculty Fellow Research Areas: Protein Structure-Function Relationships, Molecular Modelling, Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Biochemistry Education

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    Brandon Jutras , bio

    Associate Professor and BcGSA Advisor: Molecular and Cellular Biology of Lyme Disease

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    Michael Klemba , bio

    Associate Professor and Director of Biochemistry Study Abroad Programs: Biochemistry and Drug Discovery of Malaria

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    Justin Lemkul , bio

    Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director: Computational modeling of amyloidogenic proteins and G-quadruplexes, computer-aided drug design

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    Pablo Sobrado , bio

    Professor: Mechanisms and Regulation of Enzymes

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    Wei Sun , bio

    Assistant Professor: RNA Biology