Adwait Ranade - MEDI Travel Grant

Adwait Ranade, graduate student in the Georg lab, was awarded a Division of Medicinal Chemistry MEDI Travel Grant to attend the 247th American Chemical Association National Meeting in Dallas, Texas this coming March.

Dr. Natalia Tretyakova - Grant-in-Aid

Medicinal Chemistry professor Natalia Tretyakova received a Fall 2013 Grant-in-Aid. The $32,000 award will fund her project "DNA-Protein Crosslinks in the Etiology of Heart Disease."

Elbek Kurbanov & John Widen - 2013-14 Bighley Fellowships

Medicinal Chemistry graduate students Elbek Kurbanov in Dr. Elizabeth Amin's lab and John Widen from Dr. Dan Harki's lab have been awarded College of Pharmacy Bighley Fellowships for 2013-14.

Drs. Gunda Georg & Vadim Gurvich - HealthTalk

Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development (ITDD) Directors Gunda Georg and Vadim Gurvich were featured in the HealthTalk story, "New $8.3M NIH contract to advance hormone-free birth control research at University of Minnesota."

ITDD - NIH Contract

Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development (ITDD) faculty will receive $8.3 million from the National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to investigate pharmaceutical alternatives to existing birth control methods. The primary goal of the five-year research contract is to both develop new non-hormonal male and female birth control drug targets and expand on existing targets.

Dr. Dan Harki - Engebretson/Bighley Grant

A $23,000 Engebretson/Bighley Drug Design & Development Grant was awarded to faculty member Dan Harki for his project "Discovery of APOBEC3B Small Molecule Inhibitors."

Dr. David Ferguson - HealthTalk Story

Professor David Ferguson is featured in the October 16 Academic Health Center HealthTalk story "Expert Perspective: Workout enhancer contains meth-like stimulant."