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Medicinal Chemistry

Darrell R. Davis

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and of Biochemistry
phone: 801.581.7006
fax: 801.581.7087
email: Darrell.Davis@hsc.utah.edu

Education 

  • B.S. 1982 Chemistry, University of Puget Sound
  • Ph.D. 1988, Organic Chemistry, University of Utah

Positions Held 

  • Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Adjunct in Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah
    • Professor, 2003-present
    • Associate Professor, 1996-2003
    • Assistant Professor, 1989-1996
    • Director, Biological Chemistry Graduate Program, 2002-2004
    • Director, Biomolecular NMR Facility, Health Sciences Center, 1991-present
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
    • NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with Brian R. Reid, 1988-1989

Research Interests 

Structure determination of nucleic acids and proteins using NMR spectroscopy; development of methods to determine high-resolution solution structures of DNA and RNA; the effect of chemical modification on nucleic acid structure

Courses

MedChem 5210 -Fall 2006 Organic Medicinal Chemistry

MedChem 5110 - Fall 2006 Physiological Chemistry

BLCHM6410 - 2000-2004 Nucleic Acid Biochemistry

BIOL 3510 -Spring 2007 Biological Chemistry - 1 lecture on tRNA.