Hi Ed, The future is already here... and virtual reality is your friend. This is a field that will likely be revolutionized in the near future, and your students would get an advantage by being exposed to these new technologies. You could check the following: https://www.labcompare.com/10-Featured-Articles/577506-VR-for-Science-Drug-Discovery-and-More-in-the-Virtual-World/
https://nanome.ai/ I wonder how they will respond to an academic collaboration, but you might be very surprised. Let me know if you need more info or if you want me to make the introduction. Good luck, Joao Joao M. Dias, Ph.D. Principal Scientist Pfizer Structural and Molecular Sciences Building 220/ room 3263, MS-8220-3224 445 Eastern Point Rd. Groton, CT 06340 From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Edward Snell Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 3:13 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [EXTERNAL] [ccp4bb] Off topic - 3D models demonstrating drug binding to students Dear CCP4, I apologize if this is off topic but I thought this may be a good community to ask. Before we re-invent the wheel this end, we are looking for any commercial source of three-dimensional macromolecular models that can be used to teach how drugs are designed to fit to protein targets. Our audience is mid to advanced high-school students and we are looking for materials that can withstand being passed around the students and can teach basic concepts of how structure can inform ligand binding. There are commercial sources of these models for macromolecules that we are aware of, but few if any that allow us to manipulate a drug and show how it fits to the model. We would love to find ones where a student may have name recognition of the drug concerned and we can show how it would fit to the target of that drug. Any experience in this area and a source of such models would be greatly appreciated. We enjoy our interactions with these students and have the advantage of a professional high-school science teacher/science curriculum developer on staff with Nicole Terranova (copied on the email). Our program related to this is being developed and if anyone has any experiences with this nature of teaching, any offline feedback would be appreciated. Thank you, Eddie Edward Snell Ph.D. President and CEO | Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute Director | NSF BioXFEL Science and Technology Center Professor, Materials Design and Innovation | University at Buffalo, SUNY Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association - The Structural Science Society p: +1 716 898 8631 | f: +1 716 898 8660 e: esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu<mailto:esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu> skype: eddie.snell Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute 700 Ellicott Street | Buffalo, NY 14203-1102 hwi.buffalo.edu<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/hwi.buffalo.edu/__;!!H9nueQsQ!9I3n8FaljxVxUlya3-fNm9prByPB0RNfVyoMOonG6xlREiNN0LgYqtvzrdCbgMScGtWFMkx8uIVATPGcZswt$> [hwi-logo-primary-horizontal] ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1__;!!H9nueQsQ!9I3n8FaljxVxUlya3-fNm9prByPB0RNfVyoMOonG6xlREiNN0LgYqtvzrdCbgMScGtWFMkx8uIVATM2LkF3n$> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
