Grant ID RP210208
Awarded On August 18, 2021
Title Center for Innovative Drug Discovery: Expansion of a Highly Productive Shared Cancer Drug Discovery Resource for Texas
Program Academic Research
Award Mechanism Core Facility Support Awards
Institution/Organization The University of Texas at San Antonio
Principal Investigator/Program Director Stanton McHardy
Cancer Sites All Sites
Contracted Amount $3,087,131
Lay Summary

This proposal outlines the CPRIT core facility renewal (RP160844) for the Center for Innovative Drug Discovery (CIDD), which is comprised of two integrated core facilities for Medicinal Chemistry at UTSA and High Throughput Screening at UTHSA. The CIDD has been providing researchers in San Antonio and throughout Texas access to coordinated technologies, services and expertise that advance drug discovery and development. The CIDD core facilities provide pharmaceutical industry level resources, capabilities and expertise to build collaborative programs with both academic and private industry researchers working on truly novel cancer pathways and mechanisms, thus supporting the translation of...

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