Annual U-M Drug Discovery Symposium

Schedule 

• 8:30 a.m. | Networking with coffee and breakfast
  East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School 
• 8:55 a.m. | Symposium welcome 
  Peter Toogood, Ph.D. 
  Director, Michigan Drug Discovery 
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 9:00 a.m. | Research talk: Oxylipins represent a novel approach for the development of antiplatelet drugs to prevent clotting
  Michael Holinstat, Ph.D. 
  Program Director and Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Surgery, U-M Medical School 
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 10:00 a.m. | Research talk: Ironing out the mechanism of gp130 signaling
  Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. 
  John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 11:00 a.m. | Coffee/snack break 
  East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 11:15 a.m. | Research talk: Molecular Properties of Effective Antibody Drug Conjugates
  Greg Thurber, Ph.D. 
  Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Associate Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering 
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 12:15 p.m. | Networking lunch 
  Assembly Hall, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 1:30 p.m. | Research talk: Structure/function of human cytochrome P450 drug targets
  Emily Scott, Ph.D. 
  F. F. Blicke Collegiate Professor of Pharmacy, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, U-M College of Pharmacy; Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School; Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 2:30 p.m. | Keynote presentation: Phenotypic and target-based drug discovery approaches for the discovery of innovative therapeutics
  Magid Abou-Gharbia, Ph.D.
  Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Founder of the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research, Temple University 
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 3:30 p.m. | Closing remarks 
  Peter Toogood 
  Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School