Two Indiana University School of Informatics doctoral students whose research could advance significant pharmaceutical discoveries are being recognised by the American Chemical Society
Huijun Wang and Xiao Dong are the recipients of ACS's Division of Chemical Information (CINF)-MDL Elsevier scholarships.
They will be presented with their awards as invited guests to the 233rd National Meeting of ACS, March 25-29, in Chicago.
Chemical informatics is the application of computer technology to chemistry in all of its forms, particularly in the pharmaceutical-manufacturing industry.
Wang is part of a research group that gathers, researches and analyzes the data of chemical compounds that potentially could be used as anti-cancer agents in human tumor cell lines.
Dong, who was awarded at CINF-IO Informatics scholarship at last year's ACS annual meeting, joins a team pioneering the use of Web service and intelligent-based systems for possible use by pharmaceutical companies.
These tools enable scientists to more rapidly gather the information needed to make decisions about which chemical compounds are most likely to be safe and effective drugs.
The two doctoral students conduct their research under the direction of David Wild, assistant professor of informatics.
The American Chemical Society supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry.
The organization has more than 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields.
