Joshua Smith is a PhD student at the IOCB Prague, specializing in the isolation of small molecules from complex samples, with a focus on naturally occurring vanilloids from Euphorbia and Capsicum that activate the TRPV1 receptor. Prior experience includes a laboratory technician role in the HBV cure project, where work involved protein production, purification, and routine testing using HPLC-MS. Joshua also served as an English teacher at Zakladní škola Hostivice and an analyst at Patheon, conducting compendial testing and utilizing IR and wet chemistry techniques. Joshua holds a PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Charles University, a Master's degree in Chemistry, and dual Bachelor's degrees in Biology and Chemistry from East Carolina University.
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IOCB Prague - Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) is a leading scientific institution in the Czech Republic, recognized internationally. Its primary mission is basic research in the fields of chemical biology and medicinal chemistry, organic and material oriented chemistry, chemistry of natural compounds, biochemistry and molecular biology, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry, and analytical chemistry. Today, over 600 employees including 180 students in 45 research and service groups are involved in a broad spectra of disciplines, which results in more than 250 publications per year, including papers in the most cited prestigious journals such as Nature or Science. The Institute’s emphasis on interaction between chemistry and other sciences leads frequently to medicinal applications. An integral part of the mission of the Institute is, therefore, to transfer the scientific results into assets which help people to live better lives. Together with the research expertise, a system of technology transfer, IP management and commercialization have intensively been built-up. Through its subsidiary company IOCB TTO, the Institute helps scientists to transform ideas into patents and matches their research results with interests of commercial partners to bring novel ideas to human use or technology market.