Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

Professor Swen Hoelder is the Head of Chemistry and a key member of the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery and applies his medicinal chemistry experience to discover and develop new cancer drugs. He has ...

Small-molecule drug discovery involves discovering what is often described as a lead compound and then optimizing its properties through structural modifications to achieve a profile that not only ...

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