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 ...

The Science History Institute aims to expand knowledge and challenge perspectives in the history of chemistry, engineering, and the life sciences. Through a wide range of programming, the Institute ...

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, ...

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 ...

Improve quality of life. Research drug compounds. Formulate, test, and analyze pharmaceuticals. Develop substance guidelines. Review new drug applications and the processes used to create them. With a ...

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 ...

While there have been many advances in R&D, there is still a large number of drugs that failed in clinical development due to lack of efficacy. This challenge highlights the critical role of ...

Synthetic organic chemists are accustomed to pushing electrons around. They use reducing reagents to force electrons into molecules and oxidizing reagents to strip them out. But using electrons on ...

The early days of drug discovery and development were lonely: scientists in the 19 th century made discoveries often driven by serendipity. Although fortuitous findings continue to happen, we ...