Dr. Nouri Neamati

Biography

Nouri Neamati is the John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy. He received his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1995. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 2000, he joined the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy, where he held a joint appointment at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, eventually rising to the rank of professor in 2011. Neamati has received numerous awards, including the NIH Technology Transfer Award (2000) and the GlaxoSmithKline Drug Discovery Award (2002). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds 30 patents in the area of drug design and discovery. His primary research interests focus on structure-ligand based drug design, cellular molecular pharmacology, and preclinical drug development, particularly targeting areas such as ER stress and protein-protein interactions. Neamati has built a robust chemoinformatic platform to design small-molecule drugs for treating cancers and HIV-1 infection, creating a searchable database of 10 million compounds and calculating 200 ADMET descriptors to enhance drug development efficiency.

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