Malaria Control & Elimination

Derong Ding

Derong Ding
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Biography

Derong Ding obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Chinese Academy of Science in 2005. Then he took the postdoctoral research in the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Kentucky and Indiana University, School of Medicine. Now He is appointed as research scientist at the department of chemistry and biochemistry, University of Notre Dame. His present research is about design and synthesis of biological active agents such as antimicrobial agents and MMPs inhibitors. His previous research have been published in some famous journals such as Ange-wandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications. He is also the professional reviewers for some reputed journals about organic and medicinal chemistry.

Research Interest

Medicinal chemistry.
Organic chemistry including organic synthesis and synthetic methodology