Biochemistry & Pharmacology: Open Access
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Rui Zhu

Biography

Dr. Rui Zhu, has received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Tsinghua University in China in 2008. Since then he has been working as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Pharmacology in Yale University. His researches focused on design and development of small molecules as selective anticancer drugs activated by hypoxic tumor cells. Dr. Zhu’s research articles have been published on international peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Advance Synthetic Catalyst. He is also serving as manuscripts reviewer of several reputed journals like Tetrahedron Letters and Tetrahedron.

Research Interest

Cancer chemotherapy; Medicinal chemistry; Drug design; Synthetic methodology