What is chemical biology?

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