Annual U-M Drug Discovery Symposium

Schedule

• 8:30 a.m. | Networking with coffee and breakfast
  East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 9:00 a.m. | Symposium welcome 
  Peter Toogood, Ph.D. 
  Director, Michigan Drug Discovery 
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 9:10 a.m. | Research talk: Discovery and engineering of natural product molecules for drug development
  David Sherman, Ph.D. 
  Hans W. Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School; Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute 
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 10:00 a.m. | Research talk: Small molecule modulators of opioid receptors as potentially safe analgesics
  John Traynor, Ph.D. 
  Edward F Domino Research Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School; Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 10:50 a.m. | Coffee/snack break 
  East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 11:10 a.m. | Research talk: From mutations to small molecules — Lessons learned from protein phosphatases
  Goutham Narla, M.D., Ph.D. 
  Louis Newburgh Research Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Human Genetics and Program Assistant, Internal Medicine, Medical School 
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 12:00 p.m. | Networking lunch 
  Assembly Hall, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 1:20 p.m. | Student talks
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 1:50 p.m. | Research talk: Enabling technologies for revealing druggable paths in RNA biology
  Amanda Garner, Ph.D. 
  Charles Walgreen Jr Professor and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Director, Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 2:40 a.m. | Coffee/snack break 
  East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 3:00 p.m. | Keynote presentation: (R)Evolution in Drug Discovery — Reflections on a 40+ Year Career Journeys
  Joel Barrish, Ph.D.
  President & CEO, Avilar Therapeutics; Co-Founder, President & CEO, Conveyor Therapeutics; Venture Partner, RA Capital Ventures
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School
• 4:00 p.m. | Closing remarks 
  Peter Toogood 
  Amphitheatre, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School