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Development of New Medicinal Agents Using Natural Product Scaffolds

​The primary research area of the Pongdee Research Group is the design and development of architecturally novel small molecule therapeutics based upon natural product scaffolds.  With this in-mind, we are pursuing structure-activity-relationship (SAR) and glycodiversification studies of various natural products as a means to access potentially more potent analogues for biological evaluation.   ​ ​

Chemical Education

Ron is also invested in the development of classroom and laboratory materials that employ the POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) active-learning pedagogy.  In POGIL, students work in small self-managed teams learning both discipline-specific content as well as invaluable process skills.  Currently, Ron is working on activities for the 2-semester introductory organic chemistry sequence.

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