Medicinal Chemistry
The Medicinal Chemistry discipline provides one of the technical and equipment (resource) platforms of the Welsh School of Pharmacy. It supports the School’s cross-discipline research themes and collaborative research undertaken with other Schools in Cardiff University as well as with other Institutions. Academic staff contributing to the expertise and management of the Medicinal Chemistry are listed under "See Also".
Specialist Expertise
The major interest of the medicinal chemistry discipline is in the design, synthesis and evaluation of novel compounds of biological and therapeutic interest as a means to new drug discovery and development.
The expertise includes molecular modelling, synthetic organic chemistry, purification methods and spectroscopy, particularly high field NMR.
There is close collaboration with virologists and biochemists throughout Europe, and USA.
Specialist Facilities
The Welsh School of Pharmacy has excellent facilities for Medicinal Chemistry. In 2005, we purchased a multi-nuclear Bruker 500MHz NMR spectrometer, and a Bruker micro TOF mass spectrometer (set up for Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionisation (APCI) and microspray).
The synthetic chemistry laboratories have recently been refurbished; each researcher has their own fumehood.
We also have access to state of the art molecular graphics facilities via the HELIX suite within the University.
Research conducted by academic contributors to the medicinal chemistry discipline is output across all the various research themes of the School: