b'Adapting the World Health Organizations List of Essential Medicines to AfghanistanCourtney M. Johnson, Marcus W. Diaz, Julia A. Posey, Corey J. McGlynn, Shatavia N. Smith, Alana S. Hiers, Jordan K. Johns, James K. Clements, Matthew L. Cowan, Jenu M. Thomas-Richardson, and Raenah A. Brown, Department of ChemistryFaculty Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Manning, Department of Chemistry This project focuses on developing an up-to-date list of essential medicines for the nation of Afghanistan. The World Health Organization publishes a worldwide list of medicines for the entire globe, it has over three hundred drugs list. This project takes an outdated list from Afghanistan, a more modern list from the nation of Bhutan and the list of the top 100 selling drugs in the United States to develop the list, which is topped at a total of 113 medications. The list is divided into 35 groups, ranging from Antiepileptics and Psychotherapeutic Drugs to Ophthalmological Preparations and antivirals.Some of Afghanistans more prominent diseases, such as tuberculosis and gout, required more drugs, while drugs on the WHO International List that would not be used in Afghanistan (ex, certain parasitic infections) were removed. In addition, the cost of specific mediations was also considered in the selection process.Developing and Filing a Provisional Patent Application: A Graphine-Glucose Carrier for the 18F Radioisotope Used in Positron Emission TomographyOlivia Moss, Jordan Johns, Jasmine Harris, Lindsey Robinson, Ashley Jordan, Darrell Myers, Bailee Coes, Heather Tomlinson, Konnor Mackey, Allison Smith, and Victoria Taylor, Department of ChemistryFaculty Sponsor: Dr. Tom Manning, Department of ChemistryThis presentation focuses on the development, drafting and filing (filed, 1/1/19) a United States Provisional Patent application, based on work completed as an exploratory project in CHEM3801 (Physical Chemistry). The description of the invention is as follows:The present invention concerns a known positron emission tomography (PET) contrast reagent 2-(18F) flouro D-glucose (FDG). Advanced computational work is performed to evaluate the stability of three platforms to bind FDG. The three carbon-based platforms used are; graphene, single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) and C60 known as buckminsterfullerene. For each platform, twelve variations are tested using computational methods to determine the maximum fluorine density while being able to maintain a stable structure. The twelve variations involved increasing the number of FDG labeled structures linked to the carbon allotropes via an amine-O bond. From this work, the substituted graphene was found to contain the needed stability had seven prosthetic groups and had a #F/nm3 density of 1.93229; the optimized nanotube structure that had the needed stability was had 12 substituted groups and had a #F/nm3 density of 4.68298; the optimized C60 structure found having the needed stability had seven attachments and had a #F/nm3 density of 1.77469.22'