Medicinal Chemistry and Developmental Therapeutics Seminars
The Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry division will hold the following seminars during spring 2008. All seminars take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Drachman Hall A116
Thursday, Jan. 17
Speaker: Mark Obrenovich
Affiliation: Case Western Reserve University
Topic: "Glycation and Ascorbic Acid (ascorbylation): Implications for Health, Disease and the Aging Lens"
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, Jan. 24
Speaker: Stevan W. Djuric, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Abbott Laboratories
Topic: "Chemistry Technology Enabled Synthesis of Pharmacologically Relevant Molecules"
Host: Dr. Chris Hulme
Thursday, Jan. 31 (Pharm/Tox Department Seminar) CANCELLED
Speaker: Frank Rauscher, Ph.D.
Affiliation: The Wistar Institute
Topic:
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, Feb. 07
Speaker: Mary J. Wirth, Ph.D.
Affiliation: UA - Department of Chemistry
Topic: "Silica Colloidal Crystals as New Materials for Faster Proteomics"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Feb. 14
Speaker: Emmanuel T. Akporiaye, Ph.D.
Affiliation: UA - Department of immunobiology
Topic: Modulating the tumor microenvironment: role of "mitocans"
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, Feb. 21
Speaker: Shana J. Sturla, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of Minnesota
Topic: "Probing Chemical Pathways of Bioactivation-Mediated Genotoxicity"
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, Feb. 28 ***Special Med/Chem Seminar****
(12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. in Drachman Room B111)
Speaker: Haiyong Han, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Translational Drug Development Division, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ and Member, Arizona Cancer Center
Topic: "Finding and Targeting the Achilles' Heel of Cancer"
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, Feb. 28 (Pharm/Tox Department Seminar)
PLEASE NOTE - Room Change to Drachman B111
Speaker: Philip S. Low, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Purdue University
Topic: "Receptor-Targeted Therapeutic and Imaging Agents for Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases"
Host: Dr. Nathan Cherrington
Thursday, Mar. 06
Speaker: Keykavous Parang, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Topic: "Research Experiences and Opportunities at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology"
Affiliation: University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, Mar. 13
Speaker: Daekyu Sun, Ph.D.
Topic: "Discovery and development of antiangiogenic agents targeting the transcriptional activation of the VEGF gene"
Affiliation: UA - College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, Mar. 27 (CANCELLED) (Pharm/Tox Department Seminar)
Speaker: Said M. Sebti, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of South Florida
Topic: "Targeting Defective Signal Transduction Circuits for Cancer Therapy: From Chemical Biology to Hypothesis-Driven Clinical Trials"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Apr 03 ***Special Med/Chem Seminar****
(12:00 to 1:00 p.m. in Drachman Room B109)
Speaker: Daniel V. LaBarbera, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Utah
Topic: "Preclinical Drug Discovery and Development of Antitumor Agents from Nature"
Host: Dr. Myron Jacobson
Thursday, Apr. 03
Speaker: Jun Qin, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Lerner Research Institute - The Cleveland Clinc Foundation
Topic: "Structural Biology of Integrin Signaling: From Atoms to Molecules and to Diseases, and Back"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Apr. 10
Speaker: William R. Montfort, Ph.D.
Affiliation: UA - Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
Topic: "Structure & Biology in Nitric Oxide Signaling: Blood-Sucking Insects and Endothelial Dysfunction"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Apr. 17
Speaker: Naoki Sugimoto, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Konan University, Japan
Topic: "Development of Functional Molecules Based on Nucleic Acids"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Apr. 24 (Pharm/Tox Department Seminar)
*PLEASE NOTE - Room Change to Drachman B111*
Speaker: Jeffrey Bender, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Yale University
Topic: "Membrane Estrogen Receptors and Vascular Function"
Host: Dr. Cathy Smith
Pharmacology and Toxicology Department Seminars
Thursday, Jan. 31 - CANCELLED
Speaker: Frank Rauscher, Ph.D.
Affiliation: The Wistar Institute
Topic:
Host: Dr. Laurence Hurley
Thursday, Feb. 28
Speaker: Philip Low, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Purdue University
Topic: "Receptor-Targeted Therapeutic and Imaging Agents for Cancer and Inflammatory Diseases"
Host: Dr. Nathan Cherrington
Thursday, Mar. 27
Speaker: Said M. Sebti, Ph.D.
Affiliation: University of South Florida
Topic: "Targeting Defective Signal Transduction Circuits for Cancer Therapy: From Chemical Biology to Hypothesis-Driven Clinical Trials"
Host: Dr. Danzhou Yang
Thursday, Apr. 24
*PLEASE NOTE - Room Change to Drachman B111*
Speaker: Jeffrey Bender, Ph.D.
Affiliation: Yale University
Topic: "Membrane Estrogen Receptors and Vascular Function"
Host: Dr. Cathy Smith
Further information
For questions regarding the
Medicinal Chemistry 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.