A recent paper published in Nature by IDG grantees Brian Shoichet and Bryan Roth, suggests combining physical and structure-based screening as a broadly useful method for ligand discovery of understudied and orphan GPCRs.

A recent article in Science Translational Medicine from  IDG investigator Joel T. Dudley, demonstrates the usefulness of applying the precision medicine approach to characterize the complexity of Type 2 diabetes using high-dimensional electronic medical records and genotype data from over 11,000 patients.

An article published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology describes PRESTO-Tango; a screening assay developed by Dr. Bryan L. Roth and colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. PRESTO-Tango allows for the simultaneous investigation of every nonolfactory G protein-coupled receptor in the human genome. The methods and reagents developed are freely available to the scientific community.

Dr. Gary Johnson at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill published a paper in Cell Reports that used a global approach to study the effects of adaptation of the kinome (the full complement of human protein kinases) and its role in drug resistance during cancer treatment.