Christian Sköld
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Medicinal Chemistry; Drug Design and Discovery
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 42 85
- E-mail:
- christian.skold@ilk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Biomedicinskt Centrum BMC, Husargatan 3
- Postal address:
- Box 574
751 23 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Academic training: Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (pharmaceutical profile), PhD, Associate Professor (docent level).
Biography
My research is focused within two general research areas in the field of computational medicinal chemistry. One area is to develop and evaluate methods that are useful and effective for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery projects. The second area is to find promising chemical starting points for medicinal chemistry projects and aid in the development of these compounds using computer-aided drug design and multivariate analysis. The latter research area also includes theoretical investigations of reaction mechanisms in pharmaceutically relevant chemical reactions to provide a deep understanding of the reactions and to develop improved reactions protocols and reaction variants useful in the development of drugs or pharmacological probes.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of RSC Medicinal chemistry, p. 5059-5069, 2025
- DOI for Novel Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics Targeting the Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP): Design, Synthesis and Evaluation
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The effect of gem-difluorination on the conformation and properties of a model macrocyclic system
Part of Chemical Science, p. 19770-19776, 2024
- DOI for The effect of gem-difluorination on the conformation and properties of a model macrocyclic system
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Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 17367-17376, 2023
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2021
- DOI for Computational studies of molecular pre-organization through macrocyclization: Conformational distribution analysis of closely related non-macrocyclic and macrocyclic analogs
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Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning
Part of Nature Reviews Chemistry, p. 240-255, 2021
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of RSC Medicinal chemistry, p. 5059-5069, 2025
- DOI for Novel Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics Targeting the Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP): Design, Synthesis and Evaluation
- Download full text (pdf) of Novel Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics Targeting the Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP): Design, Synthesis and Evaluation
The effect of gem-difluorination on the conformation and properties of a model macrocyclic system
Part of Chemical Science, p. 19770-19776, 2024
- DOI for The effect of gem-difluorination on the conformation and properties of a model macrocyclic system
- Download full text (pdf) of The effect of gem-difluorination on the conformation and properties of a model macrocyclic system
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 17367-17376, 2023
Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2021
- DOI for Computational studies of molecular pre-organization through macrocyclization: Conformational distribution analysis of closely related non-macrocyclic and macrocyclic analogs
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Part of Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, p. 259-267, 2021
Part of Nuclear Medicine and Biology, p. 1-10, 2019
- DOI for Synthesis and preclinical evaluation of the CRTH2 antagonist [11C]MK-7246 as a novel PET tracer and potential surrogate marker for pancreatic beta-cell mass
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Relative Strength of Common Directing Groups in Palladium-Catalyzed Aromatic C-H Activation
Part of iScience, p. 373-+, 2019
- DOI for Relative Strength of Common Directing Groups in Palladium-Catalyzed Aromatic C-H Activation
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High affinity rigidified AT(2) receptor ligands with indane scaffolds
Part of MedChemComm, p. 2146-2160, 2019
- DOI for High affinity rigidified AT(2) receptor ligands with indane scaffolds
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Part of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 2446-2450, 2018
Part of Organic Letters, p. 5392-5395, 2016
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 343-353, 2015
Part of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, p. 178-182, 2015
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 1984-1993, 2015
Efficient and Selective Palladium-Catalysed C-3 Urea Couplings to 3,5-Dichloro-2(1H)-pyrazinones
Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 978-986, 2015
Part of Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 2014
Inhibition of Insulin-Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP) by Arylsulfonamides
Part of ChemistryOpen, p. 256-263, 2014
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 12018-12032, 2014
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 12251-12256, 2013
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4953-4965, 2013
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 13803-13810, 2013
Part of Journal of Organic Chemistry, p. 4184-4189, 2013
Part of Organometallics, p. 490-497, 2013
Virtual Screening Data Fusion Using Both Structure- and Ligand-Based Methods
Part of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, p. 225-232, 2012
Synthesis of functionalized furopyrazines as restricted dipeptidomimetics
Part of Tetrahedron, p. 3019-3029, 2012
Part of Chemistry - A European Journal, p. 4714-4722, 2012
- DOI for Transmetallation Versus β-Hydride Elimination: The Role of 1,4 Benzoquinone in Chelation-Controlled Arylation Reactions with Arylboronic Acids
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From the First Selective Non-Peptide AT(2) Receptor Agonist to Structurally Related Antagonists
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 2265-2278, 2012
Discovery of Dipeptides with High Affinity to the Specific Binding Site for Substance P1-7
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 2383-2389, 2010
Part of Organic and biomolecular chemistry, p. 4356-4373, 2008
Modeling binding modes of angiotensin II and pseudopeptide analogues to the AT2 receptor
Part of Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, p. 991-1003, 2008
Part of Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, p. 145-153, 2007
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 1711-1715, 2007
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 6133-6137, 2006
Part of J Med Chem, p. 6660-71, 2006
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 4009-4024, 2005
Synthesis and AT2 receptor-binding properties of angiotensin II analogues
Part of Journal of Peptide Research, p. 194-201, 2004
Part of Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, p. 859-870, 2004
Articles, review/survey
Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning
Part of Nature Reviews Chemistry, p. 240-255, 2021
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
2007