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Article ItemVirginia Tech chemist makes strides in drug discovery for chronic kidney disease , article
As chronic kidney disease continues to affect millions of Americans, Professor Webster Santos and his team are aiming to disrupt harmful cellular signaling and improve patient outcomes.
Date: Jan 27, 2025 -
Article ItemThere’s more to blue cheese than just the stench , article
Virginia Tech researchers discovered a way to synthesize a compound in the mold of blue cheese that has antibacterial and anticancer properties.
Date: Jun 18, 2024 -
Article ItemWebster Santos named College of Science Faculty Fellow , article
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2006, Santos currently serves as the director of the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery.
Date: May 20, 2024 -
Article ItemChemistry’s Emily Mevers utilizes marine egg masses for medical innovations , article
Mevers, of the Department of Chemistry, received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that aims to leverage the microbiomes of marine egg masses for the development of next-generation antibiotics to treat emerging pathogens.
Date: Oct 10, 2022 -
Article ItemWebster Santos brings molecule inhibitor discovery in chronic kidney disease closer to drug treatment , article
Chronic kidney disease almost certainly ends in fatal renal failure. The costs are enormous, not only in lives, but also to the economy. According to 2017 estimates, chronic kidney disease cost the U.S. economy $84 billion, and end-stage renal disease treatment added another $36 billion.
Date: Aug 23, 2022 -
Article ItemInventor spotlight: Paul Carlier, professor of chemistry and director of the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery , article
Fueled by a passion for science, Carlier is a medicinal chemist who harnesses the power of synthetic chemistry to advance biology, medicine, and public health.
Date: May 27, 2022 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery supports drug and therapeutic development , article
The center supports areas ranging from cancer to neuroscience to obesity to infectious disease to agricultural insecticides.
Date: Apr 11, 2022 -
Article ItemBreaking the deadly cycle: Drug researchers tackle the malaria parasite at multiple life stages , article
Researchers have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to begin further testing of two inexpensive and effective antimalarial drug candidates that can kill Plasmodium parasites at three stages of their development.
Date: Aug 30, 2021 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech drug researcher receives $2.2 million NIH grant to further develop ‘fat burning’ molecule , article
Webster Santos, a professor of chemistry in the College of Science, has received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to further his recent research with mitochondrial uncouplers - small "fat burning" molecules that could be used to help treat NASH.
Date: Jun 11, 2021 -
Article ItemResearcher receives NSF grant to study the structure and function of enzymes, antibiotic implications , article
After recently receiving a grant from the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation, Pablo Sobrado and researchers from the University of Missouri are gearing up to uncover the inner workings of flavoenzymes, an up-and-coming enzyme family that shows some promise for the improvement of human health.
Date: Oct 01, 2020 -
Article ItemBoard of Visitors honors chemistry’s David G.I. Kingston with emeritus status , article
Kingston, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Science and a member of the Virginia Tech community since 1971, made significant contributions to biodiversity conservation, drug development, and natural products research.
Date: Jul 06, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech drug researcher develops ‘fat burning’ molecule that has implications for treatment of obesity , article
Santos and his colleagues have recently identified a small mitochondrial uncoupler, named BAM15, that holds promise for future treatment and prevention of obesity, diabetes, and especially nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a type of fatty liver disease.
Date: Jun 05, 2020 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech announces expansive cancer research initiative , article
Virginia Tech has developed a university-wide cancer research strategy to create and expand synergies among more than 30 existing research teams at work finding new ways to diagnose and treat cancer.
Date: Oct 16, 2019 -
Article ItemVirginia Drug Discovery Consortium meeting to focus on opioids, addiction, data science , article
The Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery will host a May 21-22 meeting of the Virginia Drug Discovery Consortium to be held at the Hotel Roanoke, with such topics as opioid abuse, addiction, and data science in medicine as topics.
Date: May 17, 2019 -
Article ItemDrug hunters awarded $2.8 million to develop a drug to treat multiple sclerosis , article
Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, recently received a $2.8 million award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to discover drugs to inhibit a small molecule transporter.
Date: Mar 08, 2019 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech research into genetics of mosquito reproduction could help stop spread of disease , article
The long-term goal is to use genetic engineering and chemical intervention to suppress mosquito populations and impede their ability to transmit diseases.
Date: Aug 31, 2018 -
Article ItemDrug researcher receives $1.2 million to find compounds to treat fatty liver disease , article
A grant, along with the matching funds, will support Webster Santos' research to develop drugs to treat nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a type of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Date: Aug 14, 2018 -
Article ItemVirginia Tech researchers discover insights into HIV with implications for drug development , article
“We hope this new insight on the druggable surface of HIV will provide routes to novel types of therapeutics to combat this virus that has taken so many lives,” said Anne M. Brown, an assistant professor in research and informatics in University Libraries and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Date: Jul 09, 2018 -
Article ItemResearchers discover insights into amyloids associated with Alzheimer’s and type 2 diabetes , article
A Virginia Tech research team's findings were recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
Date: Jun 25, 2018 -
Article ItemDrug discovery researcher receives NIH support to find inhibitors to treat global diseases , article
Pablo Sobrado has received a $558,747 grant from the NIH to screen small chemical libraries to find inhibitors for an enzyme that supports fungal and parasitic infections.
Date: May 31, 2018
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