必威体育登录手机Agilent Technologies Inc.必威体育登录手机(NYSE: A) announced today that Professor Hualiang Jiang has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award.Professor Jiang directs theShanghai Institute of Materia Medicaat the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is a leading researcher in the area of medicinal chemistry and computational drug design.
Professor Jiang has a strong track record identifying new targets for cancer therapy and designing inhibitors that block protein-protein interactions.He and his collaborators designed the first inhibitor of Atox1/CCS and used it to prove that copper chaperones are potential new targets for anticancer therapies.They also designed the first inhibitor of speckle-type POZ protein for potential application to clear-cell renal cell carcinoma.
必威体育登录手机The Agilent Thought Leader Award will support Professor Jiang in his latest research using novel glycoside-based small molecules to test the potential benefits of an alternative class of inhibitors of the PD-L1/PD-1pathway.His laboratory will measure and compare the metabolic and pharmacologic effects of the small molecule inhibitors against that of benchmark therapeutic PD-L1 antibodies.
必威体育登录手机"Agilent's support for leading researchers like Professor Jiang underscores our commitment to accelerating the development of metabolomics and integrated biology workflows for cancer drug discovery and characterization," said Victor Chan, Agilent vice president, and general manager of Laboratory Solutions for Agilent Greater China.
必威体育登录手机"It is my great honor to receive an Agilent Thought Leader Award.必威体育赛事投注As a drug designer, I am interested in discovering novel drug candidates from natural products, in particular, natural carbohydrate compounds, against new drug targets," said Professor Jiang."Computational drug design and chemical proteomics are the major tools in my research platform.My research team will benefit from the integration of metabolomics data."
必威体育登录手机The Agilent Thought Leader Award program promotes fundamental scientific advances by contributing financial support, products, and expertise to the research of influential thought leaders in the life sciences, diagnostics, and chemical analysis space.Further information is available at the必威体育登录手机Agilent Thought Leader Awardweb page.