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LATEST GROUP NEWS

September 2026:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH - NIAID) has awarded Principal Investigator Professor Paul Carlier and his team $3.76 million grant to develop irresistible blood stage antimalarials. 

August 2026:

Congratulations to Dr. Bo Zhou for successfully defending his PhD thesis! We wish him well at The Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Vanderbilt.

african child toddler sick with malaria

Medicinal Chemistry for Global Public Health

Malaria is a scourge in the developing world, affecting 200 million people and killing nearly 450,000 annually. To treat this infected population,  new antimalarial drugs are urgently needed. As such, we are taking a two-pronged strategy to reduce malaria transmission and mortality.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

CONTACT

Professor Paul R. Carlier

Hans W. Vahlteich Chair in Medicinal Chemistry

Office: 479 PHARM

Email: pcarlier@uic.edu

The Carlier Lab

Office: 551 PHARM

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