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    The INC welcomes it’s first chemistry team!

    The research group “Medicinal Chemistry of α-amino acid receptors and transporters” is part of

    UMR8601-CNRS at University Paris Descartes

    http://www.biomedicale.parisdescartes.fr/umr8601/-rubrique9-.html

     

    Today the group is composed of Francine Acher and Isabelle McCort as senior scientists, a postdoc

    (Chenyu Ling), two PHD students (Claudia Desole and Nunzia Cristiano), two technicians (Alexandre

    Cabayé and Cédric Barboux) and undergraduate students.

    The Acher group is focused on small molecules that target receptors and transporters of the CNS.

    Using synthetic organic chemistry and molecular modeling, we develop pharmacological and

    therapeutic tools. The team is involved in various projects from the initial design (molecules, 3D

    models…) all along to the in vivo studies. The interdisciplinary projects are made possible through

    numerous collaborations in the fields of pharmacology, molecular biology, cellular biology and

    behavior. Thus molecules that are developed in the group allow investigations of animal models of

    Parkinson’s disease motor symptoms, psychiatric diseases, cognition, pain and addiction as well as

    imaging and activation or transport mechanism elucidation.