About This Department

Research programs of the faculty cover an unusually broad range of scientific interests, including: enzyme inhibition; the discovery and isolation of novel antitumor, antibiotic, and antiviral molecules; combinatorial chemistry; drug metabolism and toxicology; computer-aided drug design; organic synthesis; chemical biology; stereochemistry and its relation to biological problems; peptide structure and function; cellular targeting; amino acid chemistry; and neurochemistry. For more details about each faculty member’s research, please visit their individual pages within this site.