Jehad Almaliti, a Medicinal Chemistry graduate student mentored by Dr. Tillekeratne, received a $1000 travel award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Jehad attended the 245th meeting of the ACS in New Orleans and made a podium presentation entitled “Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel Largazole analogs with modified surface recognition cap groups targeting histone deacetylases”.
This research involves altering gene expression without changing DNA sequences and is a promising new strategy in developing anticancer agents.