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BU-CMD Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
Dr. Karen Allen, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Dr. Allen brings expertise in the areas of X-Ray crystallography and enzyme structure and function to the CMD. Dr. Sandor Vajda, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry Dr. Vajda brings expertise in the areas of computational methods and drug discovery to the CMD. Dr. Arturo […]
CMD Welcomes Two New Members in October
CMD wishes to Welcome two new members to the team: David Huang – postdoc Wenhan Zhang – postdoc Both will be joining the team in October.
Lauren Brown and Mikayo Hayashi: Communication in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Congratulations to Lauren Brown, Mikayo Hayashi and Professor John Porco on their recent Communication in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry entitled “Asymmetric Dearomatization/ Cyclization Enables Access to Novel Chemotypes.” Abstract: Enantioenriched, polycyclic compounds were obtained from a simple acylphloroglucinol scaffold. Highly enantioselective dearomatization was accomplished using a Trost ligand palladium(0) complex. A computational DFT […]
NIH Funds BU-CMD to Develop New Antifungal Compounds
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a four-year grant to Center for Molecular Discovery researcher Lauren Brown and collaborators Leah Cowen (University of Toronto) and Luke Whitesell (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT) on “Targeting Hsp90 in crytococcal fungal pathogenesis.” The assembled team combines expertise in fungal biology (Cowen), medicinal chemistry (Brown) and […]
NIGMS Awards a MIRA (R35) Grant to the Porco Research Group
The National Institutes of Health, Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), has awarded Professor John Porco and coworkers a five year MIRA (R35) grant entitled “Chemical Synthesis of Complex Natural Products for Translational Science.” The Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA-R35), an Outstanding Investigator Award, is a grant that provides support for all of the research in an […]
CMD Nature Scientific Reports Paper
Congratulations to Dr. William Devine and Professors Aaron Beeler and John Porco on their paper “Fine-tuning of macrophage activation using synthetic rocaglate derivatives” in Nature Scientific Reports, published April, 2016. This work, on novel activity identified for the rocaglates, was done in collaboration with the Beeler group, the CMD and with our collaborator Igor Kramnik, […]
Professor Porco speaks at The 33rd Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry, Purdue University
Professor Porco spoke at The 33rd Herbert C. Brown Lectures in Organic Chemistry, Purdue University, on April 15, 2016. His talk was entitled “Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of the Rocaglates and Derivatives.” Abstract: The plant genus Aglaia produces a number of secondary metabolites including the cyclopenta[b]benzofuran silvestrol. Cyclopenta[b]benzofuran natural products possess potent anticancer properties […]
CMD Welcomes Three New Members
CMD wishes to Welcome three new members to the team: Ravi Chetree – Analytical Core Manager Nandini Vallavoju – Postdoc Wenqing Xu – Postdoc
CMD Bids Farewell to Mikayo Hayashi
After 2 years as a Visiting Researcher in our lab Mikayo is returning home to Japan to be a Team Leader at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. We thank her for her great research here in the CMD and wish her the best in her future endeavours.
Speakers Announced – 2017 BU-CMD Symposium “Molecular Discovery: From Chemical Synthesis to Biological Applications”
The biennial BU-CMD Symposium “Molecular Discovery: From Chemical Synthesis to Biological Applications” will be held on June 23, 2017. We are pleased to welcome the following speakers to the 2017 BU-CMD symposium: Professor Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professor Frances H. Arnold (California Institute of Technology) Professor Benjamin List (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung) Professor Dirk […]