Research Topic

• Enzyme active site modeling with CPMD/MD.
  
  • Prof. Robert Doerksen has been selected to receive a University of Mississippi Ole Miss Associates - Associates Program Grant for 2005-2006.
    
  • Prof. Robert Doerksen has been nominated as the University of Mississippi's applicant for the 2006 Searle Scholars Program competition.
  • Prof. Robert Doerksen has been selected as a Fellow of University of Mississippi's 2004-2005 Faculty Research Program. Here is other info on the University of Mississippi Faculty Research Program.
  • Prof. Robert Doerksen has been selected to receive a University of Mississippi Ole Miss Associates - Partners Program Grant for 2004-2005.
    
  
  
• Antimalarials
  
  • Prasanna Sivaprakasam, PhD student in the research group of Prof. Robert J. Doerksen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, won the Thomas L. Lemke Outstanding Poster Presentation Award for best poster at the 2007 Thirty-Fourth Annual MALTO Medicinal Chemistry-Pharmacognosy Meeting-in-Miniature Monroe, LA, May 20-22, 2007.
    
  • Prasanna Sivaprakasam, PhD student in the research group of Prof. Robert J. Doerksen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, won the award for best graduate student oral presentation in the Health Sciences division of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences in Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.
    
  
  
• Glycogen synthase kinase
  
  • Prasanna Sivaprakasam, PhD student in the research group of Prof. Robert J. Doerksen, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, won a poster award at the 14th Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry, November 2005.
    
  
  
• Antimicrobial amphiphilic oligomers and polymers.
  
  • Chemistry World, June 2006
    Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World featured Prof. Robert Doerksen's collaborative work with Professors Klein and Tew
    
    Putting some backbone into bacterial killers
  • Society Journal of the American Society for Microbiology, July 2004
    
  
  
  • Business Week April 19, 2004
    
  • innovations report, March 2004
    
    Frog skin and supercomputers lead Penn chemists to designing better bacteria killers
  • University of Pennsylvania Press Release March 30, 2004
    
    Featured at www.pepsoc.com, www.eurpepsoc.com, and www.eurekalert.com
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Annual Report 2003
    
  • ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award Finalist 2003
    
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Related Press Release 2003
    
  • Chemical & Engineering News December 2002
    
  • Chemical & Engineering News May 2002
    
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Annual Report 2002
    
    New weapons for the germ wars