MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LED DISCOVERY OF NEW TREATMENTS FOR HUMAN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS AND BETA-THALASSEMIA

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1020411

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

I am a medicinal chemist interested in finding new treatments for sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease, and the blood diseases sickle cell anaemia and beta-thalassemia. After testing more than 80,000 compounds, we have discovered some promising starting points for drug discovery. These so-called “screening hits” are too weak to be useful but I hope to use my medicinal chemistry expertise to make these more potent, more selective, and hence therapeutically useful.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Research Fellowships

Funding Amount: $636,524.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biologically Active Molecules

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

blood disorders | chemistry | drug discovery | epigenetics | trypanosomiasis

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