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Discover a New Perspective on Pharmacy!
Join us for a series of brief talks showcasing the clinicians and scientists advancing new standards of care and therapies for a healthier future.
Christopher Penton
Researcher
Demystifying Drug Discovery: Moving Liquids and Finding Drugs
Drug Screening involves testing anywhere from thousands to millions of compounds to find new therapeutics. At the most fundamental level, drug screening relies on the ability to scale experiments down smaller and smaller to make this process faster and more affordable. In addition, individualized approaches are required to manage data and help guide the drug discovery process.
The Arizona Center for Drug Discovery has made significant progress in these areas over the past year. The ACDD has steadily improved its throughput, currently at 10,000 compounds tested per day, and is expanding its reach to more and more investigators on campus. Dr. Penton, head of High-Throughput Screening, will discuss fundamentals of drug discovery and how we are starting a new era at the University of Arizona.
Christopher Hulme
Professor
Academia to Industry: Shepherding New Drugs through the "Valley of Death"
Arizona Center for Drug Discovery Co-Director Christopher Hulme will highlight the bench to bedside drug discovery process for oral medications, discussing the strengths of academic drug discovery and introducing the commonly used term ‘valley of death’ where a drug hunter can see the promised land on the far side of the valley but lacks effective transport to get there.