NIGMS Renews Funding for the CMLD-BU
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is continuing its support of the CMLD-BU as one of five Centers of Excellence addressing the problem of how to develop small molecule libraries and techniques for making them that meet all the needs of pharmaceutical and biomedical scientists. The CMLD-BU was originally established in 2002. The […]
CMLD-BU Scientists Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant in Pilot-Scale Libraries for High-Throughput Screening Program
Co-investigators of the Boston University Chemical Methodology and Library Development Center (CMLD-BU) (http://cmld.bu.edu) have been awarded a three-year grant for their joint proposal “Generation of Stereochemically and Structurally Complex Chemical Libraries.” The goal of the work by Professors Porco, and co-Principal Investigators Panek, Schaus, and Snyder, is to generate a number of stereochemically and structurally […]
Professor James Panek Named the First Samour Family Professor in Organic Chemistry
In April 2004, Professor James Panek was named the first Samour Family Professor in Organic Chemistry. This endowed chair was established by Dr. Carlos Samour, who received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Boston University in 1950. Dr. Samour is a respected scientist and businessman who has been a committed supporter of the College of Arts […]
Professor James Panek Receives Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Professor James S. Panek has been named a recipient of the prestigious Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund of the American Chemical Society for his important contributions to the field of asymmetric chemical synthesis. The award was presented before the Division of Organic Chemistry at the 224th ACS National […]