Dr. Huang has been awarded the NIH/NIGMS grant

Dr. Huang has been awarded the NIH/NIGMS grant

September 20, 2016

Awarded a five-year, $1.5 million R01 grant by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Science. The project is titled “Protein N-terminal Methylation Mechanisms and Inhibition”, 09/20/2016 - 07/31/2021.

Congratulations to Akul Mehta, Ph.D. on his postdoctoral fellow appointment at the Harvard Medical School

Congratulations to Akul Mehta, Ph.D. on his postdoctoral fellow appointment at the Harvard Medical School

August 31, 2016

Akul will join Dr. Richard Cummings laboratory at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. 

Congratulations to Rami Al-Horani, Ph.D., on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA

Congratulations to Rami Al-Horani, Ph.D., on his appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA

August 31, 2016

Xavier's School of Pharmacy is an accredited Institution of higher learning and Rami's appointment at such an established School is a testament to his hard work and persistence.

Dr. Desai visited the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee, India

Dr. Desai visited the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee, Roorkee, India

August 29, 2016

He presented a talk, "Exploiting the Biology of Glycoaminoglycans to  Discover Low Hanging Fruits", August 2, 2016. 

Philip Mosier, Ph.D. and Aurijit Sarkar, Ph.D. led a team of researchers to publish in Glycobiology

Philip Mosier, Ph.D. and Aurijit Sarkar, Ph.D. led a team of researchers to publish in Glycobiology

August 29, 2016

The study of "Estimating Glycosaminoglycan-protein Interaction Affinity:  Water Dominates the Specific Antithrombin-heparin Interaction", http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27496757  

Balaji Nagarajan, Ph.D. and Umesh Desai, Ph.D. co-authored a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

Balaji Nagarajan, Ph.D. and Umesh Desai, Ph.D. co-authored a paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry

August 29, 2016

Paper titled "Molecular Basis of Chemokine CXCL5-glycosaminoglycan Interactions", the link is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471273‌.

Desai's Research group published in Scientific Reports

Desai's Research group published in Scientific Reports

August 29, 2016

"Allosteric Partial Inhibition of Monomeric Proteases.  Sulfated Coumarins Induce Regulation, not just Inhibition of Thrombin"‌, Scientific Reports, Stephen Verespy, Akul Mehta, Danief Afosah, Rame Al-Horani and Umesh Desai, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471273‌

Umesh R. Desai contributed his expertise on heparin structure - function relationships to the group led by Alan Mast of the Blood Research Center, Wisconsin

Umesh R. Desai contributed his expertise on heparin structure - function relationships to the group led by Alan Mast of the Blood Research Center, Wisconsin

August 29, 2016

A key study on "Blocking Inhibition of Prothrombinase by Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor Alpha:  A Procoagulant Property of Heparins" was published in the British Journal of Hematology, the link is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301751‌

Stephen Verespy, Ph.D. has completed his graduate program in Chemical Biology

Stephen Verespy, Ph.D. has completed his graduate program in Chemical Biology

August 15, 2016

‌Stephen Verespy, Ph.D. will be joining the lab of Dr. Kamil Godula as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, Biochemistry Department.

Yunfei Mao, Ph.D. has completed his graduate program in Medicinal Chemistry

Yunfei Mao, Ph.D. has completed his graduate program in Medicinal Chemistry

August 15, 2016

‌Yunfei Mao, Ph.D. will be focusing his efforts toward Industry and Postdoctoral positions.  

Congratulations to Brianna Mackie, Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Rong Huang.

Congratulations to Brianna Mackie, Graduate Student in the lab of Dr. Rong Huang.

August 12, 2016

‌Brianna has been awarded a Student Fellowship at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Discovery on Target 2016, to present her work titled "Photoaffinity Probes for Protein N-terminal Methyltransferase in Boston, September 20-22, 2016. 

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Dr. Huang has been awarded the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant

Dr. Huang has been awarded the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant

August 11, 2016

Proposal titled "Protein N-terminal Methyltransferase 1 in Colorectal Cancer", grant period is 07/01/2016 - 06/30/2017. 

Dr. Nehru Viji Sankaranarayanan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Umesh Desai's lab was chosen as a speaker for the 2016 Proteoglycans Gordon Research Seminar.

Dr. Nehru Viji Sankaranarayanan, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Umesh Desai's lab was chosen as a speaker for the 2016 Proteoglycans Gordon Research Seminar.

August 11, 2016

Her research presentation was titled "Computational Identification of Preferred Molecular Targets of Non-Saccharide Glycosaminoglycan Mimetics that Selectively Inhibit Cancer Stem Cell Growth". 

Umesh R. Desai, Ph.D., a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai

Umesh R. Desai, Ph.D., a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, Mumbai

July 10, 2016

Dr. Desai presented a talk titled "Glycosaminoglycan - Protein Interactions and Drug Discovery" at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai on August 1, 2016.

Balaji Nagarajan, Ph.D. Awarded Outstanding Poster at the Gordon Research Conference

Balaji Nagarajan, Ph.D. Awarded Outstanding Poster at the Gordon Research Conference

July 10, 2016

Balaji Nagarajan, Ph.D. attended the Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans‌, July 9-15, 2016.  He received an Outstanding Poster Award for his work titled "Identifying Glycosaminoglycan Binding Hotspots for CXCL5 using NMR and Molecular Dynamics". http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2016/07/28/jbc.M116.745265.abstract

 Akul Mehta, Research Assistant, has been congratulated by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Akul Mehta, Research Assistant, has been congratulated by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

May 23, 2016

Akul Mehta, Research Assistant, has been congratulated by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry on his outstanding contribution.  

Feb. 18-19: VCU 3D Summit 2016

Feb. 18-19: VCU 3D Summit 2016

February 8, 2016

The Institute for Structural Biology, Drug Discovery and Development presents VCU 3D Summit 2016, 3-6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Larrick Student Center, Jonah L. 900 Turpin St., and 7:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Molecular Medicine Research Building, Room 1009.