Welcome to the Le lab!
We are at the interface of medicinal chemistry and enzymology.
Welcome to the Le lab!
We are at the interface of medicinal chemistry and enzymology.
About Us
We are a medicinal chemistry research group in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. We have broad interests and expertise in many topics related to drug discovery and development, including organic synthesis, methodology, structure-based drug design, structure-activity relationship, and enzymology. We use organic synthesis and computational modeling as primary tools to design and synthesize potential therapeutic agents and collaborate with other research groups to evaluate their biological activities and investigate their molecular mechanisms of action.
Recent News
- January 12, 2022: Hoang served as a reviewer for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP).
- January 7, 2022: Our paper on salvinorin dual kappa and mu opioid receptor agonists was accepted to ChemMedChem. Congratulations, Nick!
- December 14, 2021: Hoang is to participate in the 2022 ACS Leadership Institute.
- November 19, 2021: Hoang was selected for the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN)'s Grant Writing Coaching program.
- November 18, 2021: Imdadul Khan passed his prospectus. Congratulations, Imdadul!
- November 17, 2021: Hoang was elected Chair-Elect of the American Chemical Society Local Section at the University of Mississippi.
- November 16, 2021: Hoang was asked to serve on the 2022 AACP Chemistry Section Awards Committee.
- November 8, 2021: Hoang served as a reviewer for the NSF SBIR/STTR program.
- October 29, 2021: The Research Topic "Targeting Cancer Metabolic Reprograming for Cancer Therapy" (Hoang is the Topic Editor) in Frontiers in Drug Discovery is now open for submission.
- October 3, 2021: Our collaborative review paper got published on Journal of Neuroendocrinology. Congratulations, Nick!
- August 30, 2021: Matthew Bee joined our lab as an undergrad researcher. Welcome, Matthew!
- August 22-26, 2021: Hoang gave an oral presentation; Imdadul and Ben gave poster presentations on our research at the ACS National Meeting in Atlanta, GA. Well done, Imdadul and Ben!
- August 12, 2021: Hoang served as a reviewer for the NSF SBIR/STTR program.
- August 2, 2021: Hoang was appointed as an Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Drug Discovery.
- July 7, 2021: Our collaborative paper got published on Molecules.
- June 22, 2021: Tristan Tran joined our lab as an undergrad researcher. Welcome, Tristan!
- May 24, 2021: Jiaxin (Leo) Yang joined our lab as an undergrad researcher. Welcome, Leo!
- April 29, 2021: Nick Akins graduated with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is starting his postdoctoral work with Dr. Dennis Liotta at Emory University in May. Congratulations, Nick!
- April 27, 2021: Ben Sawyer received a GSC Research Grant for his project "Synthesis and Assessment of Potential Carbazole-based Antimalarials". Congratulations, Ben!
Contact Us
Hoang V. Le, Ph.D.
Department of BioMolecular Sciences
The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
419 Faser Hall
University, MS 38677
Phone: (662) 915-2555
Email: hle@olemiss.edu