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10 years of success in medicinal chemistry!
Published on May 29, 2019
On June 12, IRIC celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Medicinal Chemistry Core Facility, the largest of its kind in a university setting in Canada.
The Medicinal Chemistry Core Facility brings together a team of 42 chemists and biologists working together to design and synthesize new chemical entities possessing biological or therapeutic activity. This collaborative work led to the discovery of the UM171 molecule, first of its kind, with the capacity to multiply by ten the number of hematopoietic stem cells present in a unit of umbilical cord blood.
This day of celebration was a genuine success and a great opportunity to highlight the work of the chemists and biologists who work at IRIC and to thank all of the partners for their unwavering support.
