Center for Chemical Methodology & Library Development

in Campus, Research
March 10th, 2003

The Center for Chemical Methodology & Library Development opens at Boston University. It is a new center funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) focused on the discovery of new methodologies to produce novel chemical libraries of unprecedented complexity for biological screening.

“The primary goal of CMLD is to build a better library, but ultimately the molecules housed there will be useful in medicine and in answering basic questions in biology. ‘We’re not trying to set up a small pharmaceutical company here at BU,’ says Schaus [library developer]. ‘We’re actually interested in making compounds that you can use to study biological functions.’”—BU Bridge article