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Soliman's Lab Research Scope

 

 

 

Main Research Theme

The research scope of Soliman's Molecular Modeling and Drug Design Research Lab covers a wide range of computational and molecular modeling research areas with main focus on biological systems and drug design approaches, Protein-Protein Interactions, Protein folding and dynamics, nano-particle fabrications and nano-particle drug delivery systems

Project Categories

Applications Projects

Structure/pharmacophore-Drug Design Approaches

Proteins structures and dynamics using computational tools such as MD, PCA, RIN, ... etc

Understanding drug resistance mechanisms via different computational tools

QM/MM MD simulations

Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR)

Conformational Analysis of biomolecules

Bioinformatics tools applications

Development Projects

New Docking Approach called "Loop Docking" to enhance docking results - developed in-house

Approaches to enhance binding free energy calculations results

Developing parameters for biomolecules: on-going projects

Software implementations: on-going projects

Experimental Projects:

Binding interactions using Microscale Thermophoresis (MST), including protein--protein interaction, drug binding affinities, polymer interactions etc.

 


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