This project is now filled.

Supervisors: Gabriele C. Sosso (Chemistry), Albert Bartok-Partay (Engineering, Physics), Anders Broo (AstraZeneca plt.)

The solubility of pharmaceutical drugs determines to what extent they can be absorbed. Machine learning algorithms can predict the solubility of novel drugs without the need of actually synthetizing them - thus saving substantial time and money. However, we currently infer solubility from the structure of single molecules in vacuum - a sub-optimal approach ignoring interatomic interactions. This project, supported by AstraZeneca, will address this pitfall by generating three-dimensional molecular models of crystalline drugs polymorphs and simulate their dissolution by means of enhanced sampling simulations. These results will be used to construct a machine learning framework that will unravel the atomistic origins of drugs solubility.

Further information: https://www.sossogroup.uk/72902-2-2-3/