Amirom Goldblum.
Molecular Modeling and Drug Design
CHR HANSEN
Greece
Biography
Prof. Goldblum is a Head of the Molecular Modeling and Drug Design and Discovery Unit at the Institute for Drug Research of the Hebrew University. Following a BSc in Chemistry and Physics and a MSc in QM studies of molecular spectra, Goldblum wrote his PhD in Organic Reaction Mechanisms (Hebrew University) and continued with postdoc studies of Quantum Biochemistry (Paris), and of QSAR and QM reaction mechanisms (California). Back at Hebrew U, Goldblum performed research of protein reactions and interactions using semiempirical QM and developed MNDO/H for dealing with H-bonding in relatively large molecular systems. Since 2000, Goldblum's group focuses on applications of his prize winning generic algorithm (ACS "emerging technologies", Washington D.C. 2000) for finding sets of best solutions in extremely complex combinatorial problems. ISE (Iterative Stochastic Elimination) has been applied to protein structure and conformations, to protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, to molecular properties and to the discovery of drug candidates.
Research Interest
Acetylcholinesterase inhibition,Computational Protein Design,Differential Toxicity
