Ernest Eliel Workshop – US and Cuba Collaboration in Chemistry Education and Neglected Disease Drug Discovery
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-2-2017
Publisher
American Chemical Society
Abstract
This chapter describes the “Ernest Eliel Workshop – US and Cuba Collaboration in Chemistry Education and Neglected Disease Drug Discovery” carried out at the University of Havana in October 2016. Through lectures and laboratories Cuban students were educated in chemistry and biology while they applied their understanding to addressing a serious humanitarian challenge – discovering drugs for neglected diseases. The one-week workshop was conducted by both Cuban hosts and professors and students from three US institutions – Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Santa Clara University and Colorado College. The workshop lectures ranged from macroscopic overviews of the drug discovery process, both scientific and economic, to more detailed presentations of the skills and scientific understanding required to carry out discovery research effectively. The lab portion utilized one of IUPUI’s Distributed Drug Discovery (D3) synthetic procedures. It was solid-phase based and enabled students to make 22 compounds which were then submitted for antimicrobial testing. As student education was taking place the Cuban-US collaborative nature of the workshop led to deeper scientific and cross-cultural understanding. These connections are certain to bear fruit in the scientific and educational work we are planning.
Chapter of
Stereochemistry and Global Connectivity: The Legacy of Ernest L. Eliel Volume 1
Editor
H. N. Cheng
Cynthia A. Maryanoff
Bradley D. Miller
Diane Grob Schmidt
Recommended Citation
Scott, W. L., Samaritoni, J. G., O’Donnell, M. J., Dounay, A. B., Fuller, A. A., Dave, P. S., Sanchez, J. M., Tiano, D. G., & Rivera, D. G. (2017). Ernest Eliel Workshop – US and Cuba Collaboration in Chemistry Education and Neglected Disease Drug Discovery. In Stereochemistry and Global Connectivity: The Legacy of Ernest L. Eliel Volume 1 (Vol. 1257, pp. 63–94). American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2017-1257.ch005
