Kamyar Afarinkia
Senior Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Bradford University
United Kingdom
Biography
PhD & Diploma of Imperial College (London), BSc (Hons) & Associateship of the Royal College of Science, London.
Research Interest
Drug Discovery and Medicinal Chemistry; Modulation of chemotactic signalling and its potential for cancer therapy; Inhibitors of glycosyl hydrolases (e.g. heparanase, golgi mannosidase II); Synthetic Organic Chemistry Diels-Alder cycloadditions of 2(H)-pyrones, 2(H)-pyridones and 2(H)-1,4-oxazin-2-ones; Asymmetric synthesis using chiral phosphorus; Total synthesis of biologically interesting and structurally unusual natural products; Peptide turn mimetics
