Drug Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Seminars
The Drug Discovery and Development division will hold the following seminars during Fall 2009. All seminars take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Drachman Hall A116
Please join for refreshments prior to the seminar in room A125.
Thursday, August 27
Speaker: Meet The Incoming Graduate Students
Thursday, September 3
Speaker: Daekyu Sun, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Arizona, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Topic: "Chemical and biological mechanisms of the antineoplastic, DNA-damaging natural product leinamycin"
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Thursday, September 10
Speaker: Eugene W. Gerner, Ph.D.
Affiliation: UA - Cell Biology and Anatomy
Topic: "Treating Risk Factors for Cancer Prevention"
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, September 17
Canceled
Thursday, September 24
Speaker: Robert W. Sobol, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Topic: "Bioenergetic Metabolites Regulate Base Excision Repair Dependent Cell Death in Response to Chemotherapy-Induced DNA Damage"
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, October 1 (CANCELED)
Thursday, October 8 Pharm/Tox Departmental Seminar (Room B111)
Speaker: David K. Ann, Ph.D.
Affiliation: City of Hope Medical Center
Topic: "Targeting SUMOylation in DNA Damage Response in Cancer Therapy"
Host: Dr. Yin Chen
Thursday, October 15
Speaker: Daniel Marquess, D.Phil.
Affiliation: Vice President, Theravance
Topic: "A Multivalent Approach to Drug Discovery for Novel Antibiotics: Clinical Compound TD-1792"
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Thursday, October 22 (CANCELED)
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Thursday, October 29
Speaker: Guillermo A. Morales, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Morales Consulting, LLC and
Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Diversity
Topic: "SFP6: A New Compound Class of Designed Pan- and Isoform-Selective PI3-Kinase Small Molecule Inhibitors"
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Thursday, November 5 (CANCELED)
Thursday, November 12
Speaker: TBA
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Thursday, November 19
Speaker: Harold (Hal) Kohn, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Topic: "Vimpat®: A First-In-Class Antiepileptic Agent"
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, November 26-29 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Thursday, December 3
Speaker: Alexander Dömling, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Topic: "New Process for the Rational Design of Protein Interaction Antagonists: small molecule HDM2 and HDM4 and cocrystal structures"
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Pharmacology and Toxicology Department Seminars
Thursday, October 8 (Room B111)
Speaker: David K. Ann, Ph.D.
Affiliation: City of Hope Medical Center
Topic: "Targeting SUMOylation in DNA Damage Response in Cancer Therapy"
Host: Dr. Yin Chen
Further information
For questions regarding the Drug Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Seminar Series, please contact Kristy McCoy at (520) 626-3779
For general questions regarding the graduate programs in the College of Pharmacy, contact Nancy Colbert, program coordinator, (520) 626-7265 or by fax (520) 626-2466.