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NIAAA Staff Profile

 

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Senior Investigator,, Branch Chief,

Kenner C. Rice, Ph.D.

Focus Area

Chemical Biology; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

Selected Publications

  1. Sulima A, Jalah R, Antoline JFG, Torres OB, Imler GH, Deschamps JR, Beck Z, Alving CR, Jacobson AE, Rice KC, Matyas GR. A Stable Heroin Analogue That Can Serve as a Vaccine Hapten to Induce Antibodies That Block the Effects of Heroin and Its Metabolites in Rodents and That Cross-React Immunologically with Related Drugs of Abuse. J Med Chem. 2018;61(1):329-343.

  2. Barrientos RC, Bow EW, Whalen C, Torres OB, Sulima A, Beck Z, Jacobson AE, Rice KC, Matyas GR. Novel Vaccine That Blunts Fentanyl Effects and Sequesters Ultrapotent Fentanyl Analogues. Mol Pharm. 2020.

  3. Wang M, Irvin TC, Herdman CA, Hanna RD, Hassan SA, Lee YS, Kaska S, Crowley RS, Prisinzano TE, Withey SL, Paronis CA, Bergman J, Inan S, Geller EB, Adler MW, Kopajtic TA, Katz JL, Chadderdon AM, Traynor JR, Jacobson AE, Rice KC. The Intriguing Effects of Substituents in the <i>N</i>-Phenethyl Moiety of Norhydromorphone: A Bifunctional Opioid from a Set of "Tail Wags Dog" Experiments. Molecules. 2020;25(11).

  4. Selfridge BR, Deschamps JR, Jacobson AE, Rice KC. Synthesis of enantiopure 10-nornaltrexones in the search for Toll-like receptor 4 antagonists and opioid ligands. J Org Chem. 2014;79(11):5007-18.

  5. Selfridge BR, Wang X, Zhang Y, Yin H, Grace PM, Watkins LR, Jacobson AE, Rice KC. Structure-Activity Relationships of (+)-Naltrexone-Inspired Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) Antagonists. J Med Chem. 2015;58(12):5038-52.

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