Modeling meth addiction

Modeling meth addiction

Yamini Naidu's project identifies medications for treating methamphetamine addiction.

Naidu created a homology model of a human receptor protein using a computer modeling program and then identified potential medication leads for treating methamphetamine addiction through computational chemistry methods and a rational drug design approach.

Read more about her project here.

July 23, 2012 4:17 PM PDT

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