Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

Medicinal chemistry encompasses the design and synthesis of novel bioactive compounds that have the potential to become drugs. It typically involves cycles of iterative optimization of compounds to ...

A medicinal or pharmaceutical chemist researches and creates chemical compounds for use as drugs. By applying chemical research techniques to isolate natural healing agents or develop artificial ones, ...

For Tim Cernak of the University of Michigan, small certainly is beautiful. He and his colleagues have redesigned some of the most popular reactions in medicinal chemistry so that they work in ...

Peer-reviewed research finds the company’s novel technology enables faster dataset construction, further shortening Avicenna’s timelines to develop life-saving medicines. “We’re accustomed to hearing ...

Having occupied a state-of-the-art building, merged the Departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, and added several recent faculty, the research activity of the medicinal chemistry program is ...