The attached interview above is from SDPB's daily public-affairs show, In the Moment.
Professor Brian Logue, SDSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and two graduate students will develop techniques to determine the chemical composition of drugs from various manufacturers and develop a chemical fingerprint.
Logue is part of the South Dakota Center for Understanding and Disrupting the Illicit Economy. The center recently received a five-year, $3.9 million award from the South Dakota Research and Commercialization Council. The goal is to thwart criminal activity and illegal trade on the dark web and other networks.
Logue will team with Associate professor Chris Saunders from the SDSU Math department. Saunders will apply statistical methodologies to figure out if a drug might be counterfeit.