Dr. Bharath Villuri has just been accepted into the Mid-Atlantic & Morgan State I-Corps Customer Workshop, which focuses on translating academic research into commercialization opportunities.
His Project was focused on Early-Stage Sulfate-Protected Building Blocks and Tools to Enable Scalable Synthesis of Sulfated Glycans. This Workshop is part of the National Science Foundation programs called I-Corps.
VCU School of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
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Medicinal Chemistry is a discipline exploring biology in health and disease on a molecular scale. Visit us at http://www.pharmacy.vcu.edu/medchem/
Medicinal Chemistry is the chemistry of medicines. But, it is far more than mixing reagents to create a molecule that may be a “drug”. The medicinal chemist is a crucial part of a multidisciplinary research team that must understand, really understand, the biology of health and disease from the body and organ level down to cells and ultimately to the detail of single molecules and their interactio
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Medicinal Chemistry Departmental Seminar
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Medicinal Chemistry Departmental Seminar
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