Cyclic peptides are not just macrocyclic scaffolds, the scaffold is also intimately involved in interacting with proteins.
Malde AK, Hill TA, Iyer A, and Fairlie DP.
Chem. Rev. 2019, 119, 9861−9914.
7 April, 2019
Dr Abishek Iyer and Prof David Fairlie attended the Experimental Biology (American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics) National Meeting in Orlando and presented on liver fibrosis in a session on Inflammation and Tissue Injury.
3 April, 2019
Dr Robert Reid and Prof David Fairlie attended the American Chemical Society National Meeting (Organic Session on Heterocycles) in Orlando and presented on heterocycles and GPCRs.
31 January, 2019
Welcome to new students who joined the Fairlie Group this month:
Louise Friberg (Master’s in Chemistry at University of Uppsala, Sweden) who will work with Dr Tim Hill on medicinal chemistry.
Yu Zhe Peng (Master’s in Biotechnology at UQ) who will work with Dr James Lim on cancer cell biology.
Xun Li (Master’s in Biotechnology at UQ) will work with Dr Ligong Liu on medicinal chemistry in immunology.
10 January, 2019
Thank you to Ben Ahern for your efforts. Ben was an exchange student from Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA (Bachelor’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) who completed a three-month lab practice training (Aug-Oct 2018) and two-month summer research program (Nov 2018 to Jan 2019) with Dr Ligong Liu on synthesis of drug metabolites with immunological activities. He has returned to the USA to continue his bachelor degree studies.
1 January, 2019
The Fairlie Group was acknowledged by Clarivate Analytics (formerly ISI) with notification of “Global Highly Cited Researcher 2018” for Fairlie DP.
Congratulations to all group members for their contributions to impactful research publications.
30 November, 2018
Thank you to senior researcher Dr Alpesh Malde who has been working diligently in the group for three months on protein-binding macrocycles. Alpesh is the founder of MaldE Scientific (www.MaldEScientific.com) which is investigating and validating structures and interactions of molecules with biopolymers using computational modelling.
14 December, 2018
Congratulations to Dr Ken Loh for winning an IMB Impact Award: Teamwork. Great reward for effort Ken!
20 October 2018
Welcome to new student Huy Nguyen, who joins us for 12 months as a visiting Masters Student from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
24 August, 2018
The University of Queensland’s Associate Professor Antje Blumenthal, Professor Rob Capon and Professor David Fairlie have begun a three-year multidisciplinary collaboration to develop new antibiotics to treat tuberculosis. The project has been awarded $1.45 million by the US Department of Defense.
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