Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry

The Drug Synthesis and Chemistry Branch provides synthetic and medicinal chemistry resources and expertise in support of NExT development and discovery projects. DSCB resource and expertise include: iterative drug design and synthesis, synthetic method development and process synthesis development. Recent NeXT projects utilizing DSCB resources include:

1. Silvestrol, and
2. Preclinical development of T-dCyd: a New Epigenetic Agent.

For information regarding the NExT program, see http://next.cancer.gov