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	Tehdyt toimenpiteet University of Kuopio Department of Pharmaceutical chemistry Group leader: Antti Poso Home page: http://www.uku.fi/farmasia/fake/modelling/index.shtml The PMC-group, headed by Antti Poso uses molecular modeling and other bioinformatics methods to discover and optimize drug molecules. The critical factor in the activities is integration of bioinformatics and molecular modeling together with synthesis chemistry, biology, pharmacology, neural sciences, and information technologies within fixed research projects. In addition to the drug discovery projects the group aims to develop and commercialize new software for the needs of drug discovery. At the moment the group has eight people working in the field of bioinformatics. The goal is that on average one Ph.D. student will graduate from the group each year.. Further, the group is actively supporting the new graduates to find their way to industry or other research groups after their graduation. The group is also actively recruiting post-doc level researchers from abroad. For the masters degree students, the group tries to provide an opportunity for a 3-6 month research period in foreign research groups. The most important foreign contacts at the moment are the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Martin-Luther University in Halle, University of Perugia (Italy), University of Fuda (Shanghai) and two companies: SIRC/TCM (Shanghai) and SIRTRIS-pharmaceutical (Boston USA). Back to the group list