Marcin Drag
Marcin Drąg in 2003 earned his Ph.D. in organic and bioorganic chemistry working on new inhibitors of metallo- ad cysteine proteases. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the best thesis in organic chemistry by Polish Chemical Society and Sigma-Aldrich (2004). Between 2005-2008 he conducted postdoctoral research at The Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, CA (USA) in prof. Guy Salvesen laboratory. After coming back to Poland, in 2011 he received Doctor of Sciences Degree in chemistry (habilitation) for work on new types of combinatorial libraries to investigate proteolytic enzymes. In 2016 he received Professor title in chemistry from President of Poland. From January 2020 prof. Drąg is Head of Department of Chemical Biology and Bioimaging at WUST. His research interests in chemical biology include the design and synthesis of substrates, inhibitors and activity-based probes to decipher the mechanism of action and the function of proteases in health and disease. In particular, his laboratory has developed specialization in the application of a large number of unnatural amino acids in combinatorial library structures and the procedure called HyCoSuL (hybrid combinatorial substrate library) that combines natural (proteinogenic) and unnatural (non-proteinogenic) amino acids
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