Recent Peptide Research and News
Peptide Gels
Reflecting recent work in the Schneider lab
Researchers in the Schneider lab, published in Angewandte Chemie, Intl. Ed., discuss how peptide nucleic acids, PNAs, are employed in the design...
Peptide & Enzyme Catalysts
Reflecting recent work in the Wennemers lab
Enzymes and peptide catalysts consist of the same building blocks but require vastly different environments to operate best. Published in Angewandte...
Coiled Coils
Reflecting recent work in the Price lab
Coiled coils are one of most common protein quaternary structures and represent the best understood relationship between amino acid sequence and protein...
Network Pharmacology
Reflecting recent work in the Jin lab
Carapax Trionycis is a traditional Chinese medicine and it has been clear that oligo-peptides from Carapax Trionycis extract, CTP, are the main active substances...
Novel, Rational Drug Design
Reflecting recent work in the Deber lab
As an alternative approach to conventional antibiotics, members of the Charles Deber laboratory, published in Peptide Science, explore a novel...
Bicyclic Peptides
Reflecting recent work in the Nitsche lab
Bicyclic peptides have emerged as one of the driving forces within the constrained peptide family. Due to their unique pharmaceutical attributes...
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Jon Collins
Director of Business Development
CEM
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Ved Srivastava
Ph.D., Vice President of Peptide Chemistry
Intarcia Therapeutics
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Eileen Kennedy
Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Pharmacy
University of Georgia