a catalyst for the integrationof chemistry and biology
The Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery provides a collaborative research platform that brings together biologists and synthetic and medicinal chemists and enables the translation of basic scientific discoveries into potential new therapeutics.
Mission
- To catalyze and enhance research focused on chemical biology and drug discovery.
- To promote interdisciplinary activities and resources that increase understanding of physiological and pathophysiological processes relevant to therapeutic and diagnostic development.
- To provide educational opportunities for NU community in the area of drug discovery, integrative chemical biology, and related basic science interdisciplinary research.
- To provide resources for active drug discovery research.
Co-Directors
Karl A. Scheidt, Ph.D., Irving M. Klotz Professor of Chemistry, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Scheidt is a synthetic organic chemist whose research focuses on the development of new catalytic reactions and the total synthesis of molecules with important biological and structural attributes.
Raymond C. Bergan, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. Bergan is a medical oncologist affiliated with the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center and Northwestern Memorial Hospital and whose research focuses on prostate cancer.
Advisory Board
The Center is guided by an advisory board composed of a clinician and faculty leaders in the areas of biology, structural biology and chemistry.
Wayne Anderson, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Pharmacoogy and Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of MedicineRaymond C. Bergan, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Dave Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Director of NUCATS
Andrew Mazar, Ph.D., Entrepeneur-in-Residence, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Jill Pelling, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Karl A. Scheidt, Ph.D., Irving M. Klotz Professor of Chemistry, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Richard B. Silverman, Ph.D., John Evans Professor of Chemistry, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
D. Martin Watterson, Ph.D., John G. Searle Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry, Feinberg School of Medicine
Gayle Woloschak, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Feinberg School of Medicine
