Medicinal Chemistry
Head of Group - Professor B.V.L. Potter
Research opportunities are spread broadly into two clusters: medicinal chemistry of receptors and signal transduction and the medicinal chemistry of neoplastic and infectious disease . Synthesis of novel molecules to intervene in cellular transduction pathways, novel ligands for steroid, opioid and imidazoline receptors and associated enzymes (kinases, phosphatases, sulfatases, cyclases, polymerases), dynamic combinatorial methods, hypoxia-activated prodrugs and new chemical leads in ischaemia reperfusion injury.
