Medicinal Chemistry

Rene Roy

Biography

Dr. Rene Roy from the Department of Chemistry at Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada. Dr. Rene Roy is expertised in Organic Synthesis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Synthesis, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Synthesis, Chemical Synthesis, Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry, Multistep Synthesis, Synthetic Chemistry, Total Synthesis.

Research Interest

Author of more than 230 publications (including many speciality sections) and editor of two books on vaccines and glycomimetics, Dr. Roy has been instrumental in creating and marketing two meningitis vaccines. His special interest in carbohydrate chemistry spans more than three decades. He has also created a breast cancer vaccine prototype. He recently developed an alternative way to combat bacterial infections by synthesizing a new family of molecular architectures called glycodendrimers. His work on these molecules, classed as nanotechnologies, has been hailed by Québec­Science as one of the 10 most important discoveries in 2008—the second time in less than three years that Dr. Roy has been singled out by the journal. His current interests include designing new dendrimers and dendronized polymers for use in water purification and in the detection and treatment of blue­green algae.

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