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University of Central Florida — Debopam Chakrabarti laboratory

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Debopam Chakrabarti's laboratory discovers and optimizes antimalarial compounds, including natural-product and kinase-targeted approaches intended to work against drug-resistant parasites.

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U.S. states
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About

What they do

Debopam Chakrabarti's laboratory discovers and optimizes antimalarial compounds, including natural-product and kinase-targeted approaches intended to work against drug-resistant parasites.1,2,3 Its U.S. R&D is based at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida.1,3 The work spans the discovery and development stages, from screening natural-product libraries and repurposed kinase inhibitors through hit-to-lead optimization and testing in humanized mouse models.1,4,2,3

In the United States
Products and programs

In the field and in development

Plasmodium protein kinase-focused antimalarials discovery (NIH R01AI172066)1,3
Repurposing kinase inhibitor chemotypes as antimalarials3
Where they work

Partnerships

No endemic-country partnerships are listed.

U.S. partners

Who they work with in the United States

  • Stanford University3
    Stanford, CA · Nathanael Gray laboratory
    In the atlas
  • University of California San Diego3
    La Jolla, CA · Elizabeth Winzeler laboratory
    In the atlas
  • University of Oklahoma5,3
    Norman, OK · Robert Cichewicz natural-product chemistry
  • NIH/NIAID3
    Bethesda/Rockville, MD · Funder · funder
Sources

Where this comes from

  1. 1med.ucf.edu
  2. 2mesamalaria.org
  3. 3Confirmed by the organization
  4. 4ucf.edu
  5. 5med.ucf.edu