Small molecule therapeutics: from infectious and parasitic diseases to cancers [ 2017 - ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Prof Jonathan Baell (Principal investigator)

Brief description I will lead a team of medicinal chemists to discover better treatments of diseases focused in two major domains. On one hand, I will discover new drugs to treat certain parasitic diseases such as Sleeping Sickness, Chagas disease and malaria, all caused by protozoal parasites. On the other hand, I will discover new drugs to treat certain cancers, in particular acute myeloid leukemia and Burkitt’s lymphoma, caused by dysfunction of certain types of enzymes called histone acetyltransferases.

Funding Amount $763,845.00

Funding Scheme Research Fellowships

Notes Research Fellowship