Address:
Chemistry Department
U. S. Naval Academy
572M Holloway Rd.
Mailstop 9B
Annapolis, MD 21402-5026
Telephone: 410-293-6638
FAX: 410-293-2218
Course Information:
Foundations of Chemistry I/II: SC111 SC112 Organic I/II: SC225 SC226 Integrated Lab: SC261/2 Advanced Organic: SC325 Medicinal Chemistry: SC425 Midshipman Research: SC495/496/Trident
Research Interests:
In any given year, nearly ten percent of the global population will suffer from malaria and more than 1 million people will die as a resulta death from malaria every 30 seconds. Malaria is caused by the protozoan parasite Plasmodium. Resistance of this parasite to our current medicines makes malaria is a formidable enemy to civilians living in malarial infected regions, and warfighters who operates in such areas. Since 2002, in collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), we have explored a number of classes of organic molecules with the aim of producing easily-synthesized and novel compounds with potential as antimalarial therapeutics. This research involves the design, synthesis and then antimalarial testing of compounds such as the ones shown below (click on the structures for summaries of some of our findings). If you are interested in pursuing a project in such areas, do please get in touch!
Selected Publications:
Selective inhibition of Pfmrk, a Plasmodium falciparum CDK, by antimalarial 1,3-diaryl-2-propenones, Geyer, Jeanne A.; Keenan, Susan M.; Woodard, Cassandra L.; Thompson, Philip A.; Gerena, Lucia; Nichols, Daniel A.; Gutteridge, Clare E.; Waters, Norman C., Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2009, 19, 1982.
The synthesis of azadirachtin: a potent insect antifeedant, Ley, Steven V.; Abad-Somovilla, Antonio; Anderson, James C.; Ayats, Carles; Banteli, Rolf; Beckmann, Edith; Boyer, Alistair; Brasca, Maria G.; Brice, Abigail; Broughton, Howard B.; Burke, Brenda J.; Cleator, Ed; Craig, Donald; Denholm, Alastair A.; Denton, Ross M.; Durand-Reville, Thomas; Gobbi, Luca B.; Bobel, Michael; Gray, Brian Lawrence; Grossmann, Robert B.; Gutteridge, Clare E.; Hahn, Norbert; Harding, Sarah L.; Jennens, David C.; Jennens, Lynn; Lovell, Peter J.; Lovell, Helen J.; de la Puente, Mary L.; Kolb, Hartmuth C.; Koot, Win-Jan; Maslen, Sarah L.; McCusker, Catherine F.; Mattes, Amos; Pape, Andrew R.; Pinto, Andrea; Santafianos, Dinos; Scott, James S.; Smith, Stephen C.; Somers, Andrew Q.; Spilling, Christopher D.; Stelzer, Frank; Toogood, Peter L.; Turner, Richard M.; Veitch, Gemma E.; Wood, Anthony; Zumbrunn, Cornel, Chemistry--A European Journal, 2008, 14, 10683.
Synthesis and Antimalarial Activity of 7-Benzylamino-1-isoquinolines, Clare E. Gutteridge, Marshall M. Hoffman, Apurba K. Bhattacharjee and Lucia Gerena, Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2007, 44, 633.
An In Silico 3D Pharmacophore Model of Chalcones Useful in the Design of Novel Antimalarial Agents, Apurba K. Bhattacharjee, Daniel A. Nichols, Lucia Gerena and Clare E. Gutteridge, Medicinal Chemistry, 2007, 3, 317.
Antileishmanial and Antimalarial Chalcones: Synthesis, Efficacy and Cytotoxicity of Pyridinyl and Naphthalenyl Analogs, C. E. Gutteridge, J. V. Vo, C. B. Tillett, J. A. Vigilante, J. R. Dettmer, S. L. Patterson, K. A. Werbovetz, J. Capers, D. A. Nichols, A. K. Bhattacharjee and L. Gerena, Medicinal Chemistry, 2007, 3(2), 115.
In vitro and in vivo efficacy and in vitro metabolism of 1-phenyl-3-aryl-2-propen-1-ones against Plasmodium falciparum, Clare E. Gutteridge, Daniel A. Nichols, Sean M. Curtis, Darshan S. Thota, Joseph V. Vo, Lucia Gerena, Gettayacamin Montip, Constance O. Asher, Damaris S. Diaz, Charles A. DiTusa, Kirsten S. Smith and Apurba K. Bhattacharjee, Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett., 2006, 16, 5682.
Preparation Of Benzisoxazoles As LXR Ligands For Treating Dyslipidemic Conditions, Jones, A. Brian, Adams, Alan D., Green, Ahren I., Huang, Shaei Y., Tse, Bruno, Gutteridge, Clare E., Cheng, Yuan (2004), WO 2004011448.
N-(3-Phenylsulfonyl-3-Piperidinoyl)-Phenylalanine Derivatives As Potent, Selective VLA-4 Antagonists, C. E. Gutteridge, S. E. de Laszlo, T. M. Kamenecka, E. McCauley, G. van Riper, R. A. Mumford, U. Kidambi, L. A. Egger, X. Tong, W. K. Hagmann, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2003, 13, 885-890.
Preparation Of Podocarpic Acid Derivatives As LXR Agonists For Treating Dyslipidemic Conditions, Alan D. Adams, Aileen Bouffard, James F. Dropinski, Clare E. Gutteridge, A. Brian Jones, Weiguo Lui, John George Ondeyka, Sheo Bux Singh, (2003) US 20030125357.
Preparation of Substituted Isonipecotyl Derivatives as Inhibitors of Cell Adhesion, De Laszlo, Stephen E., Gutteridge, Clare E., Hagmann, William, K., (2002) US 2002019419.