Welcome to the Tranmer Research Group Website
Principal Investigator: Geoffrey K. Tranmer, PhD
Tenured Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba.
Senior Research Chemist, Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge, Supervisor: Prof. Steven V. Ley.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University, Supervisor: Prof. Martin Semmelhack.
PhD, University of Guelph, Organic Chemistry, Supervisor: Prof. William Tam.
BSc (Hons), Brock University, Chemistry, Supervisor: Prof. Fred Capretta.
Research Focus
Program 1: The Development and Application of Flow Chemistry Methods
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Program 2: The Development of Hypoxia-Targeting Cancer Therapies and Imaging Agents
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Program 3: Structure-based Drug Design: Development of Novel Drug Candidates
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Equipment
• CEM Explorer 12 Hybrid Microwave Synthesizer
• Waters Alliance 2695 HPLC, with 996 PDA Detector
• Vapourtec R2C+/R4 Flow Chemistry System with UV-150 Photochemical Reactor
• Teledyne Isco Combiflash Rf 200 Purification System
Research Interests
• Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Chemical Biology, Organic Synthesis
• Flow Chemistry: Development and application of new synthetic technologies in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology programs
• Development of targeted cancer therapies
• Development of novel bioconjugation methodologies for use in chemical biology
Contact Information
Geoff Tranmer, PhD
Associate Professor
College of Pharmacy
University of Manitoba
321 Apotex Centre
750 McDermot Ave
Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0T5
Tel. 204-474-8358
Email: Geoffrey.Tranmer(at)umanitoba.ca