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What is chemical biology?
Chemical biology is a scientific discipline at the interface of the life sciences and the physical sciences.
Chemical biology differs from the more traditional disciplines of chemistry and biology in its emphasis on integrating a wider series of experimental techniques, ranging from synthetic organic chemistry, to biochemistry, to structural, molecular, and cellular biology.
Chemical biology cuts a wide swath across a series of disciplines and uses aspects of them together to address complex problems in biology and medicine.
Biomedical problems studied by our faculty include:
- Breast and lung Cancer
- Diabetes
- Malaria
- Carcinogen-induced mutations
- Chemotherapy
- Drug discovery
Physical techniques used:
- Organic synthesis
- NMR spectroscopy
- X-ray crystallography
- Protein engineering
- Transgenic animals