Zena Latt

• Mpharm Pharmacy
• The Identification and Synthesis of Novel Allosteric Integrase Inhibitors

Phase 1

This stage includes evaluating the important physical and chemical factors in developing an antiretroviral drug used to target HIV and comparing the structures of pre-existing designs. The aim of this phase is to suggest similar and improved structures to ones already suggested by Dr Gong.

Phase 2

The latter part of the project is to synthesise one of the proposed structures from phase 1.

Funding source: Newcastle University

Supervisor: Dr Mark Ashton