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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.