Attendees of the fourth running of the MMI Drug Design & Delivery course, which took place on 12-13 October 2009 in RCSI, visited the TCD 3D visualisation facility on Wednesday 10 February 2009.

The visit was led by Dr Amir Khan (School of Biochemistry and Immunology, TCD) and included a demonstration of Estrogen Receptor bound to antagonists. This visit gave participants an excellent opportunity to see at first hand some state-of-the-art technology that enables researchers to view the interactions between receptors and candidate drugs.                            

The development of this expertise is of great importance as new scientific visualisation techniques and tools help increase the understanding of complex scientific data. These three dimensional visualisation techniques also allow scientists to display their results in a more understandable way, allowing non-scientific spectators to grasp the meaning of the scientific research. This can help make the knowledge generated by the researchers more accessible.

Should you wish to read a report on the MMI Drug Design & Delivery course, please click here

Find also further information on the Institute for Information Technology and Advanced Computation (IITAC) Visualisation Facilitiesat TCD via the following link:
http://www.iitac.tchpc.tcd.ie/facilities/vis/