Home Department: Chemistry
Supported by: Bio-X
Mentor: Vijay Pande, Professor of Chemistry

Oscar is an upcoming senior from Indio, CA. He is majoring in chemistry and has been working on projects that involve drug repurposing in the Pande Lab for the past year. His main project this summer involves searching for an inhibitor of botulin toxin using computational methods such as superposition and docking. He will also be searching for an inhibitor of Chagas Disease and helping develop an educational video game that involves protein folding.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 17, 2011:

Inhibiting Botulin Toxin

Oscar Ortiz1, Paul Novick1, Jorge Zuniga2, James Burnette3, Laura Gomba3, Axel Brunger2, Vijay Pande1
Departments of Chemistry1 and Molecular & Cellular Physiology2, Stanford University; National Institute of Health3