Areas of Research

The Department of Medicinal Chemistry has excellent facilities for research in these major areas of medicinal chemistry. Faculty have been highly successful in attracting extramural research support for the past several years.

• Margaret James – Toxicology and Drug Metabolism
• Raymond Bergeron – Metal Chelator Synthesis and Cancer Chemotherapy
• Raymond Booth – Drug Discovery Targeting GPCRs
• Robert W. Huigens III – Drug Discovery of Antibiofilm Agents
• Hendrik Luesch – Marine Natural Products Initiated Chemical Biology
• Xin (Cindy) Qi – Peptoid Synthesis and Application in Drug Discovery
• Kenneth Sloan – Prodrugs and Topical Delivery