Medicinal Chemistry Seed Grant

Applications accepted for Track 2 only (budget range: $5,000 to $15,000)

Medicinal chemistry projects will include engineering one or more small molecule leads to improving their potency, selectivity, pharmacokinetics, and/or pharmacodynamics with the goal of identifying a high-quality, patentable drug prototype.

In-kind support will include access to the Medicinal Chemistry group to facilitate the design, synthesis, and screening of novel small molecules to identify lead drug prototypes.

Competitive projects will have already identified a well-characterized target. The proposal must identify at least one graduate student or postdoctoral scholar who can devote at least 25% time to the project. The student or postdoctoral scholar should expect to spend that time in the Nucleus lab space.

Medicinal Chemistry is led by Mark Smith (mxsmith@stanford.edu).