The Wellcome Centre for Anti-infectives Research was established in April 2017. We now invite you to share our achievements over the last 3 years. The report highlights key activities across our themes of Research, Training and Public Engagement. The report contains..
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Para-site-seeing Catalogue
Floyd, A, Yeoman, H, Southern, J, Dillon, R, Cook, S, Fairlamb, A, Ferguson, M, Horn, D, MacLean, L, Manthri, S,..
Read MoreIdentification of 6-amino-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines with in vivo efficacy against visceral leishmaniasis
Michael Thomas, De Rycker M, Ajakane M, Crouch S, Campbell L, Daugan A, Fra G, Guerrero C, Mackenzie C, MacLean..
Read MoreAntikinetoplastid SAR study in 3-nitroimidazopyridine series: Identification of a novel non-genotoxic and potent anti-T. b. brucei hit-compound with improved pharmacokinetic properties
Fersing C, Boudot C, Paoli-Lombardo R, Primas N, Pinault E, Hutter S, Castera-Ducros C, Kabri Y, Pedron J, Bourgeade-Delmas S,..
Read MoreGenome-scale functional profiling of cell cycle controls in African trypanosomes
Catarina A. Marques*, Michele Tinti*, Andrew Cassidy, David Horn bioRxiv 2020.07.16.206698; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.16.206698. This article is a preprint and has not been..
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Synthetic Medicinal Chemists – Spain
Job Reference: SLSC0821
Salary: Please refer to advert
Closing Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
We are recruiting for two exceptional individuals to join us as Medicinal Chemists within our Drug Discovery Unit, to join an antibacterial drug discovery project funded by the Tres Cantos OpenLab Foundation in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline. One post will be at Grade 7 and one post at Grade 6.
These posts will be based at the GlaxoSmithKline research facility in Tres Cantos, Spain (near to Madrid).
You will ideally have subsequent experience in the biopharma industry. The posts will be primarily laboratory based and of particular interest to talented synthetic chemists who…
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Team leader-Medicinal Chemistry
Job Reference: SLSC0825
Salary: Grade 8 (£41,526 – £49,553)
Closing Date: Sunday, February 7, 2021
We are recruiting for an exceptional individual to join us as a Medicinal Chemistry Team Leader within our Drug Discovery Unit (DDU).
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced medicinal chemist with experience in the BioPharma industry or similar, for a team leader role within the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU). The successful applicant will join a dynamic and multidisciplinary group that covers all aspects of drug discovery up to candidate selection. Work will cover all aspects…
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Coronavirus Portfolio leader in the DDU
Reference: SLSC0820
Salary: Grade 9 (£52,560 – £59,135)
Closing date: Sunday 24 Janauary 2021
The Drug Discovery Unit (DDU), University of Dundee is seeking a highly motivated and expert medicinal chemist to lead the DDU’s coronavirus drug discovery programme to deliver novel broad-spectrum anti-coronavirus drugs.
The successful applicant will use scientific and organisational “know-how” to deliver candidates for pre-clinical development by leading the science and setting strategy. The appointee will lead and drive interactions between the programme’s medicinal chemists, biologists, computational chemists and the DMPK experts within the DDU team, and the broad range of collaborations (industry and academia) required to progress a portfolio of hit and…
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