Rutgers Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness awards to IQB Resident Members

The Institute is pleased to announce that a number of resident members have received biomedical science awards from the newly-established Rutgers Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness.

These awards will support COVID-related research across Rutgers. They were among the 35 projects competitively selected from a diverse pool of over 150 applications from all Chancellor?s Units and are being generously supported by the Offices of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research at RBHS; Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Research & Academic Affairs at Rutgers-New Brunswick; Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Research & Academic Affairs at Rutgers-Newark; and Senior Vice President for Research and Economic Development.

Please join us in congratulating Drs. David Case, Jason Kaelber, Sagar Khare, and Darrin York, and their collaborators Drs. Nilgun Tumer, Xiao-Ping Li, and Edward Arnold.

• Computational Tools for COVID-19 Mpro Inhibitor Design and Precision Medicine: Drs. Darrin York (RU-NB Chemistry & Chemical Biology), David Case (RU-NB Chemistry & Chemical Biology)
• Fragment based ligand discovery against SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease: Drs. Nilgun Tumer (RU-NB Plant Biology), Sagar Khare (IQB), Xiao-Ping Li (RU-NB Plant Biology)
• Structural and Small-Molecule Binding Studies of SARS-CoV-2 Polyproteins and Proteins: Drs. Edward Arnold (CABM; RU-NB Chemistry & Chemical Biology); Jason Kaelber (IQB)