Medicinal Chemistry

Author: Markie Heideman, Content Marketing Manager Media Contact: Lindsay Groth, Director of Marketing and Communications, [email protected]   David Sherman, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, has been awarded the Norman R. Farnsworth ASP Research Achievement Award by the American Society of Pharmacognosy. The award is given to a researcher who has made […]

Author: Markie Heideman, Content Marketing Manager Media Contact: Lindsay Groth, Director of Marketing and Communications, [email protected]   Timothy Cernak, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemistry, and his research team have been awarded a grant through the Meet the Moment Research Initiative, to advance efforts to develop effective treatments for fungal infections in endangered species […]

Dr. Mydy, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, studied the biosynthesis of a class of macrocyclic peptides found in plants with potential use as therapeutic drugs. She identified a fascinating new protein fold that “has a really unusual mechanism to form cyclic peptides. It is new biochemistry that we have not […]

Medicinal chemistry PhD candidate Jinghan Liu has earned a 2023 Barbour Scholarship. The award is among the oldest and most prestigious granted by the University of Michigan, offering funding to female students from Asia and the Middle East since 1917. The Barbour Scholarship celebrates women of the highest academic and professional caliber and covers full […]

The Michigan Pharmacy community came together on Friday, February 9 at the College’s annual Research Forum event. Karen Farris, PhD’93, associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate and undergraduate education, Charles R. Walgreen III Professor of Pharmacy Administration, welcomed attendees at the morning presentation session at the North Campus Research Complex. Two fellows and four […]

Tim Cernak, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, is among the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s 2023 list of researchers who stand out as the next generation of leaders in scientific research. Dr. Cernak is one of three U-M researched awarded the annual fellowship intended to support tomorrow’s leaders in science and […]

By Kim North Shine, Michigan News Service. With a big assist from artificial intelligence and a heavy dose of human touch, Tim Cernak‘s lab at the University of Michigan made a discovery that dramatically speeds up the time-consuming chemical process of building molecules that will be tomorrow’s medicines, agrichemicals or materials. The discovery, published in […]

By Laura Bailey, Michigan News Service Researchers can invent and test millions of molecules quickly, but to develop successful new drugs, agrochemicals and other futuristic materials, they must first synthesize the molecules—and outcomes are a gamble. To solve this problem, Timothy Cernak’s laboratory at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy was awarded $3 million […]

Leroy B. Townsend, Albert B. Prescott Emeritus of Medicinal Chemistry and professor emeritus of chemistry, died on October 15, 2022. Born on December 20, 1933, Leroy was raised in Bronco, Texas. Early on he showed a love of education and graduated High School at just 16 years old. He spent his youth working on the […]

Mustapha Beleh, PhD, Director of Education and Collegiate Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, has been named the 32nd Golden Apple Award recipient. The award recognizes outstanding teaching and is the University’s only teaching award bestowed by students.  Recipients are invited to give the lecture they would want to give if it were the last one of […]