New Research Fellow joins NUS group to lead drug discovery efforts for transmembrane receptors

Vanessa Rodrigues holds a PhD in Pathology and Molecular Genetics from ICBAS, University of Porto, Portugal, with a thesis work entitled “Understanding P-glycoprotein mediated multidrug resistance in cancer: new potential targets, biomarkers and molecular inhibitors”.  Vanessa joins the NUS group to lead a drug discovery program to identify novel chemical probes targeting p75NTR, TrkB and ALK7 receptors.