Department of Chemistry
University of Louisville
2320 South Brook Street
Louisville, KY 40292

Center for Regulatory and Environmental Analytical Metabolomics
The mission of the center is to develop cutting-edge methodologies and approaches for emerging metabolomic and system biochemical research. This area of research has the promise of revolutionizing biological research in the21st century for the ability to resolve biological complexity. Thus, metabolomic development will find applications in a broad array of pressing societal problems ranging from human health, biotechnology, to environmental pollution and ecosystem health.

Groundwork Education in Mathematics and Science
This project is a collaborative effort between the University of Louisville (UofL) and the Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) that partners mathematics and science faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from the College of Arts and Sciences, mathematics and science educators from the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), mathematics and science specialists from JCPS, and teachers from six Title I elementary schools. In each school there will be a six-member GEMS team composed of two science teachers, two mathematics teachers, a science Fellow, and a mathematics Fellow. As the teams implement inquiry-based instruction each will be supported by two UofL content faculty members and two pedagogy mentors from CEHD and/or JCPS specialists.

Institute for Molecular Diversity and Drug Design
The mission of the institute is to enhance the basic research underpinnings in chemistry and biology related to biohealth; to develop research expertise in a variety of aspects of drug design from lead discovery to clinical use, focusing on modern methods of rational and combinatorial lead generation, bioassays, structure optimization, including receptor selectivity, biostability, and pharmacokinetics, as well as process development and including bioinformatics; to exploit the collaborative research findings via interactions with industry and through the formation of new businesses in Kentucky, especially by effective technology transfer initiatives; and to foster the educational quality of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students at the University through specialized course work, industrial internships, and effective mentoring programs designed to support the training of high quality young scientists of the center is to develop cutting-edge methodologies and approaches for emerging metabolomic and system biochemical research.