Computational Approaches to Nuclear Receptors

Professor Cozzini's main research interests have been the development of chemistry software and Database Design and the study of non covalent interactions in large organic host-guest complexes such as mono and bis-calixarenes, cyclodestrins and phorphirins, using different computational techniques. He is involved in the study of in silico molecular association using different molecular modelling approaches. In particular, he developed, together with Profs. Abraham, Kellogg and Mozzarelli, a new methodology based on a non Newtonian force field (HINT), to study biomolecular association, including the evaluation of the water role and the protonation state of the models. He has collaborations with Profs. D. Abraham and G. Kellogg, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth (VA), Prof. A. Olson, Molecular Graphics Laboratory, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla (CA), Prof. S. Guccione, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Catania, and with colleagues at University of Parma. Glen E. Kellogg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.