Project Update: 26 February 2019
Dear Backers,Today we ran our custom chemical library vs. Trypanosoma cruzi glucokinase. The results revealed that 8 out of the 13 compounds were very strong inhibitors of this enzyme drug-target....
Project Update: 19 January 2019
Dear Backers,Thirteen compound analogues of a scaffold from a lead hit were purchased. The same compounds were shipped to my collaborator at New York University, School of Medicine where she will ...
First Set of Compounds Arrived for Primary Screening
Dear Backers,As a quick update, we have received the funding through Experiment and we are now in the process of getting ready for the primary screen of selected compounds. These compounds were ch...
22 August 2018
22 August 2018Dear Supporters,Our recent crowdfunding campaign was successful in being fully funded for the project pertaining to the Early-Stage Drug Discovery for Chagas' Disease. I wanted to th...
Chagas' Disease in the Chronic Stage
Four chest X-rays are shown for four separate Chagas' disease patients. Panel A shows a patient with a normal-sized heart; however, panels B - D show other patients with progressively enlarged hea...