Potential Therapeutics against Orthopoxviruses

National Center For Advancing Translational Sciences

Investigators

Abstract

Project highlights: pilot libraries (25,000 compounds) and its 774 cherry-pick hits were screened and evaluated. Furthermore 330,000 MLS compounds were screened 5087 cherry picks were tested and positive compounds are being tested in secondary assays. During this period, the NCGC has fostered and maintained over 180 active collaborations with both NIH and extramural investigators, facilitating drug discovery efforts across the entire spectrum of human disease. These efforts have led to over 100 high-throughput screens and nearly 60 medicinal chemistry campaigns, providing our collaborators and the general research community a wealth of publications and promising small molecule leads. In addition, the NCGC has undertaken a number of informatic challenges to make better use of existing drug and disease target information and provide the general public with easily accessible resources, further catalyzing the development of new therapies for human disease.