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Webster Santos

Academic Title: Professor

Name: Webster Santos

 

Department: Department of Chemistry

Department Website: http://www.chem.vt.edu/

Institution: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

 

Address: 107 Davidson Hall
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0212

 

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Expertise: We are a chemistry lab who apply organic synthesis in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. Central to our work is synthetic methods development and discovery of molecules that improve human health. Currently, our work is aimed at the following:

Development of methods that install boron or silicon into carbon stereoselectively
Development of medium-sized branched peptides to target RNA structures associated with HIV
Drug discovery, specifically sphingosine kinase and S1P transporters as drug targets, and mitochondrial uncouplers

 

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