
Welcome to the Kerwin Lab home page.The Kerwin Lab is a synthetic medicinal chemistry group interested in drug design and discovery. We work at the interface of organic, medicinal, and biochemistry. News: 9/9/19: Paper describing synthesis of Shensongine A highlighted by Thieme: https://www.thieme.de/de/thieme-chemistry/synform-news-totalsynthese-von-shensongine-a-146145.htm 5/16/19: Brandie Taylor and Amanda Bohanon graduate with MS degrees in Biochemistry - off to Vanderbilt Univ. and Univ. of Texas at Austin, respectively. 5/1/19: Brandon Reinus defends his PhD dissertation "N-Alkynylations of Substituted Pyrroles with 1-Bromo-1-alkynes and C-Alkylations and C-Alkenylations of Cyclic 1,2-Diketones" 4/26/19: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education paper "Flexible and Modular 3D-Printed Peptide Models" published. https://rdcu.be/bEbir 3/819: ChemBioChem paper "N-Methylmesoporphyrin IX Exhibits G-quadruplex Specitic Photocleavge Activity" published and selected for cover art: 1/24/19: Molecules paper "Preparation and Utility of N-Alkynyl Pyrroles in Synthesis" is published in the Special Issue "Alkynes: From Reaction Design to Applications in Organic Synthesis" |