{"id":10354,"date":"2012-01-18T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=10354"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:56:05","slug":"schaus-virus-research-featured-in-sciencedaily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2012\/01\/18\/schaus-virus-research-featured-in-sciencedaily\/","title":{"rendered":"Schaus &amp; Virus Research Featured in ScienceDaily"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-579\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/schaus\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-579 \" title=\"Professor Scott Schaus\" src=\"\/chemistry\/files\/images\/scott.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Scott Schaus\" width=\"141\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Scott Schaus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Novel Compound to Halt Virus Replication Identified\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/01\/120103135502.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ScienceDaily<\/a>, has featured the research of a team of Boston University scientists in which they identified a novel compound that inhibits viruses from replicating.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, which were published online in the <a title=\"Identification of a pyridopyrimidinone inhibitor of orthopoxviruses from a diversity-oriented synthesis library\" href=\"http:\/\/jvi.asm.org\/content\/early\/2011\/12\/21\/JVI.05416-11\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Virology<\/a>, could lead to the development of highly targeted compounds to block the replication of <a title=\"Poxviruses page on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poxviridae\" target=\"_blank\">poxviruses<\/a>, such as the emerging infectious disease, <a title=\"CDC Monkeypox Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncidod\/monkeypox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monkeypox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the <a title=\"Boston University School of Medicine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston University School of Medicine<\/a> (Dr. Ken Dower and <a title=\"John H. Connor, Ph.D. BUSM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/microbiology\/research-and-research-themes\/faculty-and-their-research\/john-h-connor-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. John Connors)<\/a> teamed with <a title=\"Professor Schaus's Profile at BU Chemistry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/schaus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Scott Schaus<\/a> to use a library of chemicals from the <a title=\"CMLD: Chemical Methodology and Library Development\" href=\"http:\/\/cmld.bu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">CMLD-BU<\/a> to identify compounds that could stop vaccinia from replicating inside human cells.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Professor Schaus's Profile at BU Chemistry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/people\/faculty\/schaus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Schaus<\/a> is Associate Professor in the <a title=\"BU Chemistry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\" target=\"_blank\">Boston University Department of Chemistry<\/a>.  The <a title=\"CMLD Center Overview\" href=\"http:\/\/cmld.bu.edu\/center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Chemical Methodology and Library Development<\/a> at Boston University (CMLD-BU) is an <a title=\"National Institutes of Health (NIH)\" href=\"http:\/\/nih.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Institutes of Health<\/a> Funded Center of Excellence in the area of chemical methodology and library development.<\/p>\n<p>Read the ScienceDaily article at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Novel Compound to Halt Virus Replication Identified\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/01\/120103135502.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2012\/01\/120103135502.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScienceDaily, has featured the research of a team of Boston University scientists in which they identified a novel compound that inhibits viruses from replicating. The findings, which were published online in the Journal of Virology, could lead to the development of highly targeted compounds to block the replication of poxviruses, such as the emerging infectious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1448,997,63,1503],"tags":[9049,9215,9053,9054,9052,9050,1353,9051],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10354"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10354\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}