News
Gaurav presents at the International Society for Computational Biology conference
(07/23/2017)
Gaurav presented a talk on "Interactome based drug design based on disease-disease relationships" at #ISMB2017
Gaurav presents at "Frontier in Cancer Immunotherapy"
(02/27/2017)
Gaurav presents labs work on dual action cancer immunotherapy at "Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy"
Biophysical Society presentation
(02/15/2017)
Gaurav presents our automated multitarget lead optimization work at the Biophysical Society 61st Annual Meeting.
Jacob and Elizabeth joined the lab
(01/09/2017)
Chopra Lab welcomes our new Chemistry undergraduates.
Sebastion Paez rotates into our Lab
(01/06/2017)
Sebastion Paez rotates into our Lab as apart of the PULSe graduate program.
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)
(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.
(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.
(09/02/2016)
Chopra Lab welcomes eager, young undergraduates (Anav, Ben, Brandon, Gabby)
(08/15/2016)
Chopra hosted the family and friends at his first annual lab cookout to celebrate our first year as a lab.
(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.
(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.
(01/01/2016)
Gaurav Chopra moves into the newly built Drug Discovery facility and joins the Purdue Chemistry Department