Chemistry Department

This Department provides the necessary expertise for an effective coverage of all the areas of chemistry involved in pharmacological research projects.

Set up to provide the medicinal, high speed synthetic, analytical, structural, computational and chemo-informatics competence required to effectively advance all project-related chemistry with the aim of maintaining state-of-the-art technical and methodological appropriateness for sustainable performance.

The Chemistry Department includes:

Medicinal Chemistry

• de novo drug design
• hit selection and expansion
• lead identification and optimization 
• large-scale preparations

Chemical Core Technologies

• parallel medicinal chemistry and combinatorial technologies
• analytical chemistry
• structural chemistry for protein X-ray crystallography
• NMR-based screening and target-ligand interaction studies
• molecular modeling and design, structure-based drug design
• chemo-informatics