
Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics
Chair
R. Kiplin Guy, PhD
Departmental Focus
The Chemical Biology and Therapeutics Department at St. Jude was established to facilitate discovery of new bioactive small molecules and to bridge the gap between the identification of newly discovered active compounds with modest efficacy and potency to highly active compounds that can be used as pharmacological tools or preclinical leads. Its mission is to discover and develop novel chemical entities that increase understanding of the pathophysiology of or function as therapeutic leads for the treatment of catastrophic pediatric illnesses.
The department applies state-of-the-art high throughput techniques used for industrial discovery and development of drugs to the discovery of pharmacological tools and drug candidates for catastrophic pediatric disease. St. Jude is currently recruiting scientists with significant experience in drug development to build a pipeline that runs from discovery biology laboratories at St. Jude through high throughput chemistry and screening facilities to lead development groups within the department. The output of the program will include unique tools for the study of disease, novel methods for drug discovery, and therapeutic lead compounds.
Contact Us
Chemical Biology & Therapeutics
MS 1000, Room E9050
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: kip.guy@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-5714
FAX: (901) 595-5715
Preferred contact method: email
Faculty
Taosheng Chen, PhD, PMP® Small-molecule transcription factor drug discovery
Naoaki Fujii, PhD Medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, PDZ domain
R. Kiplin Guy, PhD Chemical biology and orphan disease drug discovery
Richard E. Lee, PhD Development of new chemotherapeutic agents
Philip M. Potter, PhD Anticancer drug hydrolysis by carboxylesterases
Fatima Rivas, PhD Total synthesis and studies of natural products of medicinal interest
Anang A. Shelat, PhD Multi-scale modeling of biological and chemical data
Michael R. Taylor, PhD Blood-brain barrier development and function
Thomas R. Webb, PhD Synthetic organic chemistry–based drug discovery