Drug Discovery in Mother Nature
The study of plant-derived protease inhibitors
EMSKE Phytochem is committed to the research of nature-based compounds for some of humanity's most difficult viral pathologies. By using the latest biochem-informatic simulation technologies and applying strict phytochemical methodologies, we’re illuminating pathways to affordable antivirals. Read our paper in Frontiers in Pharmacology, or peruse its layperson explainer version in publication Seeds of Science.
And background work signposting how we got here.
A rational approach to plant medicinals
Applying the latest analytical technologies, EMSKE Phytochem takes a rational, scientific approach to plant-based medicinals. EMSKE focuses attention on plant-based protease inhibitors for combatting human-infectable viral pathogens.
Isolated plant compounds
Leveraging results from the academic phytochemicals community, we study the pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, & mechanism-of-action of isolated plant compounds as active pharmaceutical ingredient (API ) candidates.
Whole plant extract study
We also catalog the assemblage of phytochemical constituents in entire plant extracts. These efforts support identifying abundant plant sources of key APIs. Purified extract forms can then be proposed for laboratory & clinical verification.
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