News
Awarded a two-year instructional innovation grant
12-23-2016
Our lab was awarded a two-year Instructional Innovation grant for the development of a virtual reality platform for visualizing chemical interactions. This project is in collaboration with the Purdue Envision Center and Roy Tasker's group.
Awarded Grant from Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery
11-19-2016
Our lab was awarded a seed grant by Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery to collaborate with Dr. Darci Trader. Thank you!
Gaurav Gives Talk at the Walther Cancer Foundation
11-08-2016
Phase I Concept award grant
11-07-2016
Our lab was awarded a Phase I Concept award grant from Purdue Center for Cancer Research.
Gaurav Presents a Poster at the 2016 AACR Meeting
10-28-2016
Lab's game showcased on Purdue's ITaP Newsroom
10-20-2016
Our lab alongside the Purdue Envision Center has been developing a virtual reality (VR) game to aid in drug discovery.
Cory Conder Joins Lab
10-17-2016
Cory Conder is a Chemistry Graduate student here at Purdue. He will be working on computational design and synthesis of immunomodulatory agents among other projects.
Lab Welcomes Undergrads
09-02-2016
Chopra Lab welcomes eager, young undergraduates (Anav, Ben, Brandon, Gabby)
1st Annual Lab BBQ
08-15-2016
Chopra hosted the family and friends at his first annual lab cookout to celebrate our first year as a lab.
Invited talk at Eli Lilly
07-03-2016
Gaurav gives an invited talk at Eli Lilly & Company as a part of the Grand Rounds Seminar.
Chopra lab welcomes Teresa Kennelly for the summer
05-30-2016
Teresa Kennelly (undergraduate, Chemistry) joined and worked alongside Priya Prakash for the summer.
Gaurav gives talk at University of Texas-Austin
05-27-2016
Gaurav gave a talk at the Institute for Computer Engineering and Science at University of Texas-Austin. The seminar was titled "Interactome based drug discovery and disease-disease relationships"
Priya Prakash officially joins the lab
05-23-2016
Priya Prakash finishes her last rotation as apart of the PULSe program and joins our lab!
Publication: "CD28 Costimulation: From Mechanism to Therapy"
05-17-2016
This paper summarizes the current understanding of complex costimulatory pathways, including the individual roles of the CD28, B7-1/CD80, and B7-2/CD86 molecules.
Lab Welcomes: Wallie
05-10-2016
Wallie is an open-source liquid handling robot developed by Opentrons to run protocols in a medium throughput manner. Wallie is run on a Raspberry Pi and can run protocols while being controlled by a remote user.
1st Postdoctoral Fellow Joins lab: Joydeb Majumder
04-25-2016
Joydeb Majumder joins the lab as our first postdoctoral fellow.
Undergraduate Falkner Summer Research award
04-07-2016
Undergraduate Falkner Summer Research award
Publication:"Exploring polypharmacology in drug discovery and repurposing using the CANDO platform"
03-21-2016
This paper shows how the CANDO platform can be used to analyze and determine the contribution of multitargeting based approach (polypharmacology) to drug repurposing.
Lab receives grant from LabArchives
03-21-2016
Instead of using traditional methods of notebook keeping, our lab was granted to opportunity to test LabArchive's digital online notebook keeping service
Chopra lab welcomes rotation student Priya Prakash
03-07-2016
Priya Prakash (PULSe graduate Student) starts her final rotation in our lab.
Chopra presents at presents research ideas in local seminars
02-03-2016
Gaurav Chopra presented at the "Big Data" seminar on Feb. 2nd followed by a Physical Chemistry seminar on the 3rd.
Ethan Hillman Rotates into Lab
01-25-2016
Ethan Hillman (PULSe graduate student) will be a member of our lab until March 2016.
Chopra Lab welcomes Jonathan Fine, Jessup Dowell, and Travis Lantz
01-11-2016
Jonathan Fine is a graduate student from the Chemistry Department while Jessup and Travis are both Undergraduates in Chemistry.
Chopra Moves in
01-01-2016
Gaurav Chopra moves into the newly built Drug Discovery facility and joins the Purdue Chemistry Department