Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 26, 2023

Organic chemists at t he University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created the first synthetic version of a molecule recently discovered in a sea sponge that may have therapeutic benefits for Parkinson’s disease and similar disorders.

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Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

I started my journey in chemistry – first as an undergraduate and then in my PhD programme at the University of Houston, where I focused on organic chemistry and nucleic acids chemistry. Researchers were able to use our synthetic RNA controls as a reference to verify and validate assays.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Michael Traxlmayr, PhD, Group leader, CD Laboratory for Next-Generation CAR T Cells, University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, on: ‘Novel concepts to regulate CAR T cell activity with small molecule drugs in vivo’. Dennis Verzijl, PhD, Principal Scientist, Genmab, on: ‘Kinetic antibody characterisation on challenging targets’.

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