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           COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
                             College of Science
                      (CDS Department CSI 898-Sec 001)
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          From Computational Chemistry and Computational Biology 
                     to Computer-aided Drug Discovery

                            Zengjian Hu
       Laboratory of Molecular Computations and Bioinformatics 
                     Howard University, Washington DC

Computational Chemistry is one of the most rapidly advancing and exciting
fields in the natural science today. It has been applied to broad scientific
fields spanning physics, chemistry, biology, materials, and so on. One of the
most important applications of computational chemistry is computer-aided drug
discovery. Since a crucial step for any new drug discovery project is the fast
and cost-effective identification of novel lead compounds for specific
biological targets, this talk will illustrate why and how the techniques of
computational chemistry have emerged as very important tools and
well-established methods for finding new lead compounds in the drug discovery
process in recent years.

                          November 27, 4:30 pm
                   Room 301, Research I, Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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