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Longtime Northeastern chemist receives prestigious AAPS award

Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Endowed Chair at Northeastern and Founder and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery, has received the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award for 2015. This award is part of a long line of accomplishments for Makriyannis, who has published over 500 papers and has over 50 patents in the field of medicinal chemistry.
January 25, 2016

Chemistry students head to Europe for research trip

Thirty students took part in NU-CD4. The course focused on the drug development process and gave the students the opportunity both to visit world-leading institutions in pharmaceutical research and manufacturing and conduct a research project focusing on identifying problems with existing drugs and developing novel remedies for those problems.
November 05, 2015

Plazomicin: Its Prospects and Its Challenges

James Aggen, a professor in the College of Science and Bouve College of Health Sciences, describes his to work to develop antidotes for multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections.
September 23, 2015

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