Medicinal Chemistry Approaches to Tuberculosis and Trypanosomiasis: Volume 52

ISBN-13: 9780128175569 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 188 str.

Kelly Chibale; Rui Moreira

Spis treści

1. Tuberculosis Steven J. Berthel, Christopher B. Cooper and Nader P. Fotouhi 2. Antituberculosis agents: Beyond medicinal chemistry rules Marco Pieroni 3. Development of MmpL3 inhibitors for tuberculosis treatment Giovanna Poce, Sara Consalvi, Giulia Venditti, Cristina Scarpecci and Mariangela Biava 4. Inhibitors of enzymes in the electron transport chain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Andrew M. Thompson and William A. Denny 5. Recent advances in the design of inhibitors of mycobacterial transcriptional regulators to boost thioamides anti-tubercular activity and circumvent acquired-resistance Nicolas Willand, Marion Flipo, Baptiste Villemagne, Alain Baulard and Benoit Deprez 6. Sustainable anti-trypanosomatid drugs: An aspirational goal for medicinal chemistry Maria Laura Bolognesi

O autorze

Kelly Chibale is a full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he holds the Neville Isdell Chair in African-centric Drug Discovery and Development. He is also a Full Member of the UCT Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine, a Tier 1 South Africa Research Chair in Drug Discovery, founding Director of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit at UCT and the Founder and Director of the UCT Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D).
Kelly obtained his PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from the University of Cambridge in the UK (1989-1992). This was followed by postdoctoral stints at the University of Liverpool in the UK (1992-94) and at the Scripps Research Institute in the USA (1994-96). He was a Sandler Sabbatical Fellow at the University of California San Francisco (2002), a US Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2008) and a Visiting Professor at Pfizer in the UK (2008).