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Medicinal Chemistry involves the study of all
compounds that may have a beneficial effect on living organisms.
The discipline can be divided into several overlapping areas, including;
how drugs act (mechanism of action); the design of new drugs and
the improvement of known ones; the relationship of drug structure
to drug activity (Structure-Activity Relationships, or SAR); and
the absorption, distribution and metabolism of drugs. Medicinal
Chemistry requires an extensive background in organic chemistry,
but other areas of chemistry are also important (e.g., biochemistry,
and analytical chemistry), as well as related disciplines outside
of chemistry, such as pharmacology.
Faculty with a focus in Medicinal Chemistry include the following
(explanation of the symbols, *, §, ‡ are listed below):
Adeboye Adejare, Ph.D. *
Drug targeting
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration
Chemistry of fluoroaromatic compounds
Pharmaceutical profiling
Ara DerMarderosian, Ph.D. *
Pharmacognosy
Medicinal chemistry
Nutraceuticals
Elisabetta Fasella, Ph.D. §
Bioorganic chemistry
Enzyme catalysis
Alfonso R. Gennaro (Emeritus), Ph.D.
Analytical drug detection development
Drug interactions
Free radical initiation of drug decomposition
Peter J. Harvison, Ph.D. *
Drug metabolism
HPLC method development
Structure activity/toxicity relationships
Guillermo Moyna, Ph.D. ‡
Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy
Computational chemistry
Computer-assisted rational drug design
Murray Zanger (Emeritus), Ph.D.
Organic syntheses
Medicinal chemistry
Proton NMR
Randy J. Zauhar, Ph.D. ‡
Computational chemistry
Bioinformatics
Computer-aided drug design
| Research Advising Ability |
| § |
May serve as a research advisor for undergraduate students |
| * |
Research Professors from other departments who may serve as
research advisors for graduate students in their appropriate
area of expertise |
| ‡ |
May serve as a research advisor for both undergraduate and
graduate students |
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