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Drug Discovery and Development

College of Pharmacy, 1295 N. Martin
PO Box 210202, Tucson, Arizona 85721
Phone: (520) 626-1427

445 N. 5th St., Ste.120
Phoenix AZ 85004
Phone: (602) 293-3222
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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.