Cory R Theberge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
ctheberge@une.edu

Biography

Dr. Theberge is a native of Harpswell, Maine and attended Bates College before graduate study at the University of New Hampshire, where he received a MS degree in Chemistry.  After five years as a medicinal chemist at Merck and Co. he returned to the University of New Hampshire where he completed his Ph.D. through the Merck Doctoral Study Program.  Dr. Theberge continued at Merck and Co. until moving back to Maine in 2009.  He has contributed to the development of therapeutics for the treatment of thrombosis, pain, HIV, migraine, hepatitis C, schizophrenia, and depression.  Dr. Theberge also specializes in the area of veterinary pharmacology and pharmacy.

Expertise

organic and medicinal chemistry
cholinergic pharmacology
cholesterol biosynthesis
veterinary pharmacology
veterinary pharmacy

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Education

BS, Biochemistry, Bates College, 1992

MS, Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, 1995

PhD, Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, 2002

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Research and Scholarship

Research Interests

Lamin B nuclear receptor and effect on cholesterol biosynthesis

Veterinary pharmacy in small animal, production, and hospital settings

Parallel synthetic organic chemistry for rapid SAR determination

Fragment-based drug lead identification