Mar
16
Today a special issue of Drug Today Today was published. I was the editor of this issue and honored that so many colleagues from our European funded MM4TB and other European projects agreed to provide articles on their contributions to Tuberculosis drug discovery. Through collaborations I was directly involved in providing 3 articles and an …
Aug
16
To follow up my last post .. I can now announce some recent funding from NIAID for the TB work with Dr. Joel Freundlich ! Here is the PR – Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina – The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) recently awarded $149,388 to Collaborations Pharma, Inc. (CPI) to initiate a partnership …
Jun
27
Occasionally I take a bit of a diversion from my usual science focused postings, this one has an artistic flavor. I am in beautiful Brataslava in the Slovak Republic for a few days for the final More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) meeting. Every 6 months for the past 5 years we have had meetings of …
Jan
15
My schedule for the ACS in San Diego came through today – if you want to catchup please get in touch! PAPER ID: 2393678 PAPER TITLE: Virtual collaborations for developing Sanfilippo syndrome treatments on a shoestring (final paper number: SCHB 5) DIVISION: Division of Small Chemical Businesses SESSION: Start-up Businesses in Drug Discovery SESSION TIME: …
Dec
28
2015 saw the continuation of some research themes from 2014, namely some work on Ebola, rare diseases and Bayesian models for neglected diseases. At the end of the year several papers are in press for next year so more to come. As usual there were some ups and downs in getting some of these to see …
Oct
14
I will be attending the upcoming SERMACS meeting in Memphis November 4-7, 2015 and here are the following talks and poster accepted this week. Hope to see you there. ABSTRACT ID: 2352895 ABSTRACT TITLE: Combining metabolite-based pharmacophores with Bayesian machine learning models for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug discovery (Final paper number: 13) SESSION: General Computational Chemistry …
Sep
11
Next Thursday at 10am EST I will be giving a virtual seminar at this virtual symposium – you can find out more and see all the other speakers too. This is a first for me – So I hope for some interaction via Twitter #CENSYM15 Slides are done, now I just have to prepare what …
Aug
20
I am just back from a very busy trip to Boston for the ACS. It was great to meet up with many people I see only rarely, at these meetings as well as meet new people including one with a molecule tattoo that got a lot of interest on Twitter . I gave 5 talks …
Aug
11
Well next week it is the ACS in Boston and of course I leave it to the week before to pull everything together. I initially put up here my listing of abstracts titles etc back in May. This has now been updated a bit to include additional talk and poster showings as well as times …
Jul
30
Its been several years since I last submitted to PLOSONE . Since then we embarked on a Phase II grant working on tuberculosis and after much work by many labs at Rutgers and SRI we are now submitting the work today. So we decided to give PLOSONE a second chance. In the interim I have …
