Program

BIT's 1 st Annual

International Conference of Medichem-2010

Theme: Smart Chemistry in Drug Discovery

Time:
May 18-20, 2010
Venue: Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China

 

May 17, 2010 (Monday)
Registration

Time

 08:00-18:00

Place

3F, Beijing International Convention Center(BICC), China

May 18, 2010 (Tuesday) 
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Forum

Opening Ceremony
Time: 09:00-09:30, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 305AB, 3F, BICC, China

Keynote Forum
Time: 09:30-12:00, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 305AB, 3F, BICC, China

Moderator:

Dr. Dingwei Yu, Associate Director, Cancer Innovation Medicine Center, AstraZeneca R&D, USA

09:30-10:00

Title: Small Structural Units for Compound Property Modulation in Drug Discovery
Dr. Klaus Müller, Professor, Pharmaceutical Research, F. Hoffmann La- Roche AG, Switzerland

10:00-10:30

Title: Mechanisms of Action and Transport of Platinum-Based Drugs: An Update
Dr. Giovanni Natile, Professor, Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, University of Bari, Italy

10:30-11:00

Title: Chemical Biology Challenges for 21st Century Medicinal Chemistry 
Dr. Tony Wood, Vice President, Head of Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research & Development, UK

11:00-11:30

Title: Lead Optimization and Candidate Selection of Novel Allosteric MEK Inhibitors as Potential Anticancer Agents
Dr. Andreas Goutopoulos, Director, Medicinal Xhemistry, EMD Serono, Inc, USA

Track 1: Target Structure and Fragment Based Drug Design and Synthesis

Track 1-1: Latest Breakthrough Topics
Time: 13:30-17:35, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Session Chair:

Dr. Benoît Déprez, Professor, Institut Pasteur De Lille, France

Co-Chair:

Dr. Srinivas Odde, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Moving Beyond Rules: The Development of a Central Nervous System Multi-Parameter Optimization (CNS MPO) Tool to Enable Alignment of Drug-like Properties
Dr. Xinjun Hou, Associate Research Fellow, Head of Neuroscience Computational Chemistry, Pfizer Pharma Therapeutics R&D, USA

14:00-14:25

Title: Unprecedented Natural Product-like Scaffolds for Fragment Based Drug Design and Synthesis
Dr. Dmitry Genis, CEO, ASINEX, Ltd. Russia

14:25-14:50

Title: Adding a Dimension: Incorporating Predicted ADME Properties as a Diversity Dimension in Lead Follow-up
Dr. Robert D. Clark , Director, Life Sciences, Simulations Plus, Inc., USA

14:50-15:15

Title: Discovery of Orally Active EP3 Receptor Antagonists
Dr. Jian Jin, Associate Professor and Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Structure-based Design of Receptor and Enzyme Modulators. Two Case Studies in Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology
Dr. Benoît Déprez, Professor, Institut Pasteur De Lille, France

15:55-16:20

Title:Computational Discovery of Novel Low Micromolar LEDGF/p75-HIV-1 Integrase Disrupting Compounds
Dr. Srinivas Odde, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, USA

16:20-16:45

Title: Production of Human Drug Metabolites via Regioselective Monooxygenation Catalyzed by Secreted Peroxygenases from Fungi
Dr. Matthias Kinne, Research Associate, Junior Research Group Leader, International Graduate School of Zittau, Germany

16:45-17:10

Title: Molecular Pharmacological Investigation Promotes the Develop of Calcium Blockades and the Elevation of Hypertension Therapeutic Effect
Dr. Wang zhengang, Professor, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, China

17:10-17:35

Title: Control of Cell Surface Ion-channel Density as a Strategy for Regulation of the Cardiac Rhythm
Dr. Shetuan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Queen's University, Canada

Track 1-2: Receptors and Ion Channel Based Drug Design and Development
Time: 08:30-12:20, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Chair

Dr. Thomas Ryckmans, Senior Principle, Pfizer Discovery Chemistry, Global Research and Development, UK

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Zhi-Qiang Yang, Research Fellow, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

08:30-08:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: A Journey in Physico-chemical Property Space, From Lead to Drug Candidates: Metrics, Challenges and Progress in Peptidergic GPCRs Antagonists
Dr. Thomas Ryckmans, Senior Principle, Pfizer Discovery Chemistry, Global Research and Development, UK

09:00-09:25

Title: Selective and Potent T-type Calcium Channel Antagonists Significantly Improve Sleep Architecture in Rodents and Non-human Primates
Dr. Zhi-Qiang Yang, Research Fellow, Merck Research Laboratories, USA

09:25-09:50

Title: Recent Developments on Positive Allosteric Modulators of the AMPA Receptors and Their Therapeutic Promises
Dr. Bernard Pirotte,Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Research Center, University of Liege, Belgium

09:50-10:15

Title: Development of a New Strategy for Cancer Therapy: Targeting Ion Channels
Dr. Annarosa Arcangeli, Professor, Department of Experimental Pathology and Oncology, the University of Florence, Italy

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Interaction between Membrane Proteins and Ions Studiedby ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy: A Potential Tool for Drug Screening
Dr. Yuji Furutani, Associate Professor, Division of Biomolecular Sensing, Department of Life and Coordination-Complex Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan

10:55-11:20

Title: Extracellular Hsp70 as EGF Receptor Transactivator
Dr. Anton L. Evdonin, Senior Principle, Institute of Cytology RAS, Russia

11:20-11:45

Title: Multi-parameter Analysis of EGF Receptor Pathway Activation
Dr. Matthew Hsu, R&D Director, Millipore Corporation, USA

11:45-12:10

Title: Calcium Release-activated Calcium Channels as New Drug Targets for Proliferative Vascular Diseases 
Dr. Xiang D. (Sean) Tang, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Nankai University School of Medicine, China

12:10-12:20

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 1-3: Enzymes/Protein Target Based Drug Design and Development
Time: 13:30-17:30, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 302, 3F, BICC, China

Session Chair:

Dr. Craig Tuerk, Professor, Biology and Chemistry, Morehead State University, USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Tim Corson, CIHR Jean-François St-Denis Fellowship in Cancer Research, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: PI3Kg and PI3KdPartners in Crime in Inflammation First Comes First Serves?
Dr. Thomas Ruckle, Director of Discovery Project Management at Merck Serono, Switerland

14:00-14:25

Title: Natural Product Mechanism of Action: Lessons from Triptolide
Dr. Tim Corson, CIHR Jean-François St-Denis Fellowship in Cancer Research, Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA

14:25-14: 50

Title: RNA Linking Library Presentation of Chemical Candidates for Binding to Target Proteins
Dr.
Craig Tuerk, Professor, Biology and Chemistry, Morehead State University, USA

14:50-15:15

Title: Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Phospholipase A2 as Novel Agents for the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases and Neurological Disorders
Dr. George Kokotos, Director of Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, University of Athens, Greece

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Therapeutic Drug Discovery Targeting Hypoxic Cancers with Carbohydrate-based Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors
Dr. Sally-Ann Poulsen, Chief Investigator & Associate Professor, Chemical Biology Group Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University, Australia

15:55-16:20

Title: SAR Studies on Salacinol, A Potent a-glucosidase Inhibitor Isolated from Ayurvedic Traditional Medicine Salacia Reticulata
Dr. Osamu Muraoka, Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kinki University, Japan

16:20-16:45

Title: Paclitaxel Conjugated to Nanoparticles for Selectively Targeting Cancer Cells
Dr. Reuben Jih-Ru Hwu, Prosessor, Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

16:45-17:10

Title: Targeting Bcl-2 Proteins for Anti-cancer Treatment
Dr. Guillaume Lessene, Laboratory Head, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia

17:10-17:30

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 1-4: DNA/RNA Targeted Molecule Designs and Chemistry
Time: 08:30-10:15, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Session Chair:

Dr. Peter E. Nielsen, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Faculty Of Health Sciences, Denmark

08:30-08:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

08:35-08:55

Title: Aptamers as Regulators of Gene Expression and Tas Probes for Imaging Tumors
Dr. Jean-Jacques Toulmé, Director, European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, University of Bordeaux, France

08:55-09:15

Title: Towards Novel Gene Targeted Drugs - Progress in Delivery of Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA)
Dr. Peter E. Nielsen, Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Faculty Of Health Sciences, Denmark

09:15-09:35

Title: Targeting DNA/RNA Unusual Structures
Dr. Jean-Louis Mergny, Laboratory Head , European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, INSERM U869, France

09:35-09:55

Title: Pyrrole-imidazole Polyamide Conjugate as an Artificial Genetic Switch
Dr. Hiroshi Sugiyama, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan

09:55-10:15

Title:  DNA Photocleavage by DNA/LNA and PNA Conjugates
Dr. Eylon Yavin, Assistant Professor, The Institute for Drug Research, The School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

Track 1-5: Fragment-based Approaches in Drug Discovery
Time: 13:30-15:15, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. MeihuaTu, Senior Principal Scientist, CVMED Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research & Development in Groton, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: A Yoctoliter-scale DNA Reactor for Small-molecule Evolution
Dr. Nils Jakob Vest Hansen, CEO, Vipergen Inc., Denmark

14:00-14:25

Title: Fragments of Life™, A Metabolome-Inspired Fragment Library for FBDD Targeting Infectious Disease
Dr. Lance Stewart, CEO, Emerald BioStructures, Inc.,USA

14:25-14:50

Title: Fragment-based Dynamic Combinatorial Library for Rapid Hit Generation
Dr. Beining Chen, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK

 14:50-15:15

Title: Fragment-based Design at the Fragment Level
Dr. Paul C. D. Hawkins, Senior Applications Scientist, OpenEye Scientific Software, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

Track 2: Application of New Technologies and Tools for Medichem Studies

Track 2-1: Virtual Screening to Combinatorial Chemistry for Hit Findings Part l
Time: 13:30-17:10, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

Track 2-1: Virtual Screening to Combinatorial Chemistry for Hit Findings Part l
Time: 13:30-17:10, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Bertho Gildas, Research Team Manager & Service Director, Laboratory of Pharmacological and Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry, Paris Descartes University, France

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Shuxing Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-13:55

Title: Project Support by Automated Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Christoph Huwe, Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Global Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry, Germany

13:55-14:15

Title: Advanced Methods in Fragment-based Drug Design and Virtual Screening Applications
Dr. Herbert Treutlein, Co-Founder and CEO, Qubist Molecular Design Pty. Ltd., Australia

14:15-14:35

Title: Virtual Screening Analyses Using AuPosSOM
Dr. Bertho Gildas, Research Team Manager & Service Director, Laboratory of Pharmacological and Toxicological Chemistry and Biochemistry, Paris Descartes University, France

14:35-14:55

Title: Design of CETP Inhibitors: A Comparison of Structure-based and Hand-picked Library Design Methods
Dr. MeihuaTu, Senior Principal Scientist, CVMED Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research & Development in Groton, USA

14:55-15:15

Title: Industrial Dynamics and the Evolution of Combinatorial Chemistry
Dr. Stéphane Malo, Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: A Virtual Screening Led Journey from Endogenous Messengers to Drug-like Chemical Probes
Dr. Sridhar Vasudevan, BBSRC RSE Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, UK

15:50-16:10

Title: Target Centric Library Design
Dr. V N Balaji, Director and Chief Scientific Mentor, Jubilant Biosys Limited, India

16:10-16:30

Title: High Throughput Screening and the Expensive Problem of Assay Interference Compounds
Dr. Jonathan Baell, Special Fellow and Laboratory Head , The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Biotechnology Centre, Australia

16:30-16:50

Title: Physics-based Scoring Method in Early Stages of Drug Discovery
Dr. Niu Huang, Assistant Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China

16:50-17:10

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 2-2: Virtual Screening to Combinatorial Chemistry for Hit Findings Part װ
Time: 08:30-12:20, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie,  Professor, University of Pittsburgh, , USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Renxiao Wang, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

08:30-08:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: 3D Pharmacophore Database Searches for Novel CB2 Ligands with Therapeutic Potential
Dr. Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie,  Professor, University of Pittsburgh, , USA

09:00-09:25

Title: Virtual High Throughput Screening in Anticancer Drug Discovery
Dr. Jóhannes Reynisson, Lecturer in Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modelling, Department of Chemistry & Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, The New Zealand  

09:25- 09:50

Title: A Novel Drug for Uncomplicated Malaria: Chemoinformatics Methods for Compound Selection in a High Throughput Screening Program
Dr. Neil G. Berry, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, UK

09:50-10:15

Title:  Automatic Tailoring and Transplanting: A Novel Strategy for Lead Optimization in Structure-based Drug Design
Dr. Renxiao Wang, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title:  How Flow Chemistry Accelerates Lead Generation/Optimization
Dr. Laszlo Urge,
CEO, ThalesNano Inc., Hungary

10:55-11:20

Title: Exploiting Enzyme Plasticity and Reactivity in Virtual Screening:  the Discovery of Glutamate Racemase Inhibitors with High Ligand Efficiency Values
Dr. M. Ashley Spies, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and The Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, USA

11:20-11:45

Title: FORMA Therapeutics: Diversity Oriented Synthesis and other relevant technologies for Drug Discovery
Dr. Charles Johannes, Adjunct Professor & Director of Chemisty, FORMA Therapeutics, Nanyang Tecnological University, Singapore

11:45-12:10

Title: Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Biologically Active Heterocycles
Dr. Santsoh Gaonkar, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

12:10-12:20

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 2-3: Practical Organometallic Reactions for Chiral Drug Molecules
Time: 13:30-16:10, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 303, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Maria Helena Garcia, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, Portugal

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Can Organometallic Reactions Conducted In Situ Produce Species with Unique Bioactivities? Towards a Novel Discovery Tool for Chemical Biology
Dr. Filip Teplý, Laboratory of Organic Synthesis Head , Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

14:00-14:25

Title: Bioorganometallic Chemistry: an Attractive Field for the Search of Anticancer Drugs
Dr. Maria Helena Garcia, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, Portugal

14:25-14:50

Title: Highly Efficient Transition Metal Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of Drug Candidates
Dr. Lushi Tan, Distinguished Senior Investigator, Process Research, Merck & Co., Inc, USA

14:50-15:15

Title: A New General Sulfinylating Process for Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Sulfinates and Sulfoxides
Dr. Bruce Lu, Senior Research Fellow, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Partially Hydrolysed Titanium Alkoxides as Remarkable Pre-catalysts in the Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Intermediates
Dr. Christina Chai,  Program Manager, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore

15:55-16:10

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 2-4: Bioprocess or Green Chemistry in Preclinical Compounds
Time: 10:30-12:15, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Yueju Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology, Macon State College, USA

10:30-10:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

10:35-11:00

Title: Production of Pharmaceutical Protein in Plants Via Site-specific Recombination Systems
Dr. Yueju Wang, Assistant Professor of Biology, Macon State College, USA

11:00-11:25

Title: Synthesis of Highly Potent Peptide API under Lonza HAPI (Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) Guideline
Dr. Yi Yang, Lonza Chemical R&D Tides, Lonza Ltd. Valais Works, Switzerland

11:25-11: 50

Title: Non-Invasive Cancer Eradication (NICE) by Targeting Proliferative Protein Cdc6: Generating Cytonacx: a Novel Nanoparticle Carrying DNA or RNA Producing CDC6 shRNA
Dr. Luo Feng, Director of RNTein Biotech Lab., Inc., USA

11:50-12:15

Title: An Effective Purification Method for Basic Compounds from Amine and Acid Condensation Reaction using SPE Technology
Dr. Lankun Song, Marketing Manager, Waters Technology (shanghai)Co. Ltd, China

Track 2-5: Bioinformatics and Computer Aided Drug Design and SAR Studies
Time: 13:30-17:30, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 302, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Jörg Grunenberg, Head of Scientific Computing, Institute of Organic Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Germany

Co-Chair:

Dr. Umesh R. Desai, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Interim Director of Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-13:55

Title: How Selective are Synthetic Lectins the Role of Anomeric Stabilization
Dr. Jörg Grunenberg, Head of Scientific Computing, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Germany

13:55-14:15

Title: A Novel Approach in Probe Binding Site for Drug Discovery with Effective Screen Protein Database
Dr. Jiaan Yang, Vice President of Drug Discovery Technology, Sundia MediTech Company, Ltd., China

14:15-14:35

Title: Combinatorial Virtual Library Screening to Design Heparin – Protein Interactions Modulators
Dr. Umesh R. Desai, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Interim Director of Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

14:35-14:55

Title: Conformer Sampling and Shape-based Virtual Screening
Dr. Paul C. D. Hawkins, Senior Applications Scientist, OpenEye Scientific Software, USA

14:55-15:15

Title: Say No to Kinase: Targeting Akt Pleckstrin Homology Domain for Cancer Treatment
Dr. Shuxing Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: PubChem: The NIH BioActivity Database for Medicinal Chemistry Research
Dr. Yanli Wang, Associate Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

15:50-16:10

Title: Fragment Molecular Orbital Method: Application to Influenza Viral HA-sialoside Interaction
Dr. Toshihiko Sawada,  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

16:10-16:30

Title: QSAR Analysis of Calcium Channel Blockers in Concomitant Administration with Grapefruit Juice
Dr. Yoshihiro Uesawa,  Associate Professor/Lecturer, Clinical Pharmaceutics Laboratory, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Japan

16:30-16:50

Title: Relative Binding Free Energy Estimation Between a Protein and a Ligand Based on the Free Energy Binding Principle
Dr. Takeshi Kikuchi, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, College of Life Science, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

16:50-17:10

Title: Drug Design by Modeling Chemical Reactions
Dr. Jun Xu, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry & CADD, Sun Yat-Sen University; Chairman, KMS Meditech, Inc., China

17:10-17:30

Title: A Core Science in 21st Centry: Insilico Life Science
Dr. Huisheng Fang, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, China Pharmaceutical University, China

Track 3: Case Studies of Medichem on Drug Candidates on Major Diseases

Track 3-1: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti-Cancer IND (Part I)
Time: 13:30-17:10, May 18, 2010 (Tuesday)      Place: 311C, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Chuangxing Guo, Senior Principal Scientist, Cancer Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research and Development, USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Dingwei Yu, Associate Director, Cancer Innovation Medicine Center, AstraZeneca R&D, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Discovery of bRAF Preclinical Candidate
Dr. Chuangxing Guo, Senior Principal Scientist, Cancer Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research and Development, USA

14:00-14:25

Title: Development of a Water-soluble Prodrug of Novel Topoisomerase I Inhibitor, TP300, that Overcame Drawbacks of Irinitecan
Dr. Nobuo Shimma, Associate Vice President, Research Division Fellow, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Japan

14:25-14:50

Title: Activation of Antisense Transcription by Camptothecin as a Basis to Develop Novel Therapeutics
Dr. Giovanni Capranico, Professor of Molecular biology, Department of Biochemistry, Bologna University, Italy

14:50-15:15

Title: Discovery and Early Development of Novel Chk1 Kinase Inhibitor, AZD7762
Dr. Dingwei Yu, Associate Director, Cancer Innovation Medicine Center, AstraZeneca R&D, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Platinum Coordination Complexes. From DNA Interactions to New Anti-tumor Drug Design
Dr. Viktor Brabec, Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

15:55-16:20

Title: Synthesis of Potent Anticancer Naphthoquinone Esters with Structure-activity Relationship (SAR)
Dr. Ngampong Kongkathip, Head, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Thailand

16:20-16:45

Title: An NHC Route to Novel Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors based upon the Natural Product Largazole
Dr. Bo Wang, Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, USA

16:45-17:10

Title: Honokiol Inhibits Tumor Growth and Metastasis via Suppressing PKC/MEK/ERK-dependent Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Activation in HepG2 xenograft Model
Dr.  Lijuan Chen, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, China

Track 3-1: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti-Cancer IND (Part II)
Time: 08:30-12:20, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 311B, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Giovanni Natile, Professor, Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, University of Bari, Italy

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Giovanni Capranico, Professor of Molecular biology, Department of Biochemistry, Bologna University, Italy

08:30-08:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title:Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel Antimitotic and Antivascular Combretastatin A-4 Analogues
Dr. Olivier Provot, Professor, University Paris XI, France

09:00-09:25

Title: Inhibition of Matrix Metalloproteinases by Platinum Substrates
Dr. Giovanni Natile, Professor, Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, University of Bari, Italy

09:25-09:50

Title:Design and Synthesis of Potential Non-peptidic Inhibitors of Grb2-SH2 Domain
Dr. Emmanuel Bertounesque, Senior Group Leader ,Institut Curie, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, France

09:50-10:15

Title: Laminin-332-integrin Linteraction: a Target for Cancer Therapy
Dr. Daisuke Tsuruta, Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: The Effect of Sulfur-donor on the DNA Binding by Non-classical Platinum Anti-tumor Drugs
Dr. Yangzhong Liu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, China

10:55-11:20

Title: Small Molecular Peptidomimetics as Anticancer Agents
Dr. Wenfang Xu, Distinguished Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, China

11:20-11:45

Title: Retro-MedChem: From Natural Products to Drugs and Back Again
Dr. Martin J. Lear, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

11:45-12:10

Title: Anti-tumor Compounds Derived from Natural Products
Dr. Qingshan Li, Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanxi Medical University, China

12:10-12:20

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 3-2: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti-Infectious Diseases (Part I)
Time: 13:30-17:00, May 19, 2010 (Wednesday)      Place: 305A, 3F, BICC, China

Session Chair:

Dr. Mark E. Flanagan, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer World Wide Medicinal Chemistry, USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Kun Liu, Senior Research Fellow , External Discovery and Preclinical Sciences,  Merck Research Laboratories, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Discovery of Azetidinyl Ketolides for the Treatment of Susceptible and Multidrug Resistant Community-acquired Respiratory Tract Infections
Dr. Mark E. Flanagan, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer World Wide Medicinal Chemistry, USA

14:00-14:25

Title: Discovery of Novel P4 Modified Macrocyclic Hepatitis C Virus NS 3 Protease Inhibitors with Improved Mutant-resistance Profile and Pharmacokinetic Property
Dr. Maosheng Duan, Chief Scientist, GlaxoSmithKine, USA

14:25-14:50

Title: Chemical Approaches for Antimicrobial Agents
Dr. Frederic Guittard, Professor, Université de Nice-Siophia Antipolis, France

14:50-15:15

Title: Spirotetrahydro β-carbolines (spiroindolones): A New Class of Potent and Orally Efficacious Compounds for the Treatment of Malaria
Dr. Bin Zou, Research Investigator, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Iinhibition of Influenza Virus Infection by Novel Tea Catechin Derivatives
Dr. Kunihiro Kaihatsu, Assistant Professor, Osaka University, Japan

15:55-16:20

Title: Nitroimidazo-oxazines : Structure Activity Relationships in Replicating and Nonreplicating Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (Mtb)
Dr. Jan Jiricek, Research Investigator II Chemistry, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, Singapore

16:20-16:45

Title:Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of Thiazomycin Analogs
Dr. Kun Liu, Senior Research Fellow , External Discovery and Preclinical Sciences,  Merck Research Laboratories, USA

16:45-17:00

Conclusion and Discussion

Track 3-2: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti-Infectious Diseases (Part II)
Time: 13:30-16:20, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 303, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Zhiwen Jonathan Zhang, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Co-chair

Dr. Y. Whitney Yin, Assistant Professor, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Identification of Novel Drug Target for Development of Anti‐infective Agents
Dr. Zhiwen Jonathan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

14:00-14:25

Title: Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of Bacterial MurD and MurE Ligases by Structure-based Virtual Screening Approach
Dr. Tom Solmajer, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

14:25-14:50

TitleStructural Insight on Anti-HIV Drug Toxicity
Dr. Y. Whitney Yin, Assistant Professor, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, USA

14:50-15:15

Title: Development and Optimization of Novel Anti-Flaviviral Compounds
Dr. Susan M. Keenan, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, USA

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Targeting Exoerythrocytic, Erythrocytic and Sexual Stages of Malaria Parasites: a Challenging Task
Dr. Rui Moreira, Institute for Research in Medicines and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal

15:55-16:20

Title: Synthesis and Screening of Antibiotic Lead Drugs on Scaffold of Natural Macrocyclic Peptides
Dr. Chuanguang Qin, Professor, Faculty of Life Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Track 3-3: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti-Neurodegenerative IND
Time: 08:30-12:35, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 311A, 3F, BICC, China

  Session Chair:

Dr. Spiros Liras, Executive Director and Department Head, CVMED Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer, USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Yuegang Zuo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

08:30-08:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

08:35-09:00

Title: Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors as treatments for Major Disorders of the Central Nervous System; The pursuit of a Research Platform
Dr. Spiros Liras, Executive Director CVMED Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Inc. , USA

09:00-09:25

Title:Structure-based Design and Discovery of a Novel Class of Phosphodiesterase 10A Inhibitors for the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Dr. Xinjun Hou, Associate Research Fellow, Head of Neurosciences Computational Chemistry, Pfizer Pharma Therapeutics R&D, USA

09:25-09:50

Title: A2A Antagonist for Parkinson’s Disease
Dr. Xiaohu Zhang, Senior Director of Medicinal Chemistry, BioDuro –PPD, USA

09:50-10:15

Title: Novel α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Agonist for the Treatment of Cognitive Disorders in Alzheimer’s Disease and Schizophrenia
Dr. Bruce N Rogers, Senior Director, Neuroscience Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Inc, USA

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: Oxazole GSK-3beta Inhibitors for Alzheimer’s Disease - from HTS Hit to Efficacious Lead
Dr. Jinshan Michael Chen, Principal Scientist , Pfizer Global Research & Discovery, USA

10:55-11:20

Title: Examination of Anthraquinones in a Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Radix Polygoni Multiflori, and their Effects on a Parkinson's Disease Biomarker
Dr. Yuegang Zuo, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA

11:20-11:45

Title: Therapeutic And Preventive Measures for Mild Cognitive Impairment By Chinese Herbal Medicine Utilizing a Potential Blood Biomarker
Dr. Akira Matsumoto, Professor, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

11:45-12:10

Title: Metal Ions in Protein Oligomerization
Dr. Fabio Arnesano, Research Scientist, Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, University of Bari, Italy

12:10-12:35

Title: NMDA Receptors Mediate Excitotoxicity in Amyloid Beta-induced Synaptic Pathology of Alzheimer’s Disease
Dr. Yan Wu, Associate Professor, Capital Medical University, China

Track 3-4: Medicinal Chemistry toward Anti- Diabetes & Obesity
Time: 13:30-16:40, May 20, 2010 (Thursday)      Place: 310, 3F, BICC, China

Chair

Dr. Sharma S Prabhakar, Vice-President, American Federation for Medical Research; Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension; Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine; Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA

 Co-Chair:

Dr. Gui-Bai Liang, Senior Research Fellow, Merck External Basic Research, USA

13:30-13:35

Welcome: Session Introduction

13:35-14:00

Title: Discovery of GCC2680 as a Potent, Selective and Orally Efficacious Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Antagonist
Dr. Jinhwa Lee,  Research Director, Green Cross Corp. , Korea

14:00-14:25

Title: Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Diabetic Nephropathy
Dr. Sharma S Prabhakar, Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension; Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA

14:25-14:50

Title: Diabetes, Januvia, and Beyond - Medicinal Chemistry of DPP-4 Inhibitors
Dr. Gui-Bai Liang, Senior Research Fellow, External Discovery and Preclinical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., USA

 14:50-15:15

Title:Discovery of Carmegliptin: A Potent and Long-acting Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibitor for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Dr. Patrizio Mattei,
Medicinal Chemist, Discovery Chemistry, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title:Drug Discovery for Diabetic Neuropathy
Dr. Irina G.Obrosova, Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Director, Mechanisms of Diabetes Complications Laboratory, USA

15:55-16:20

Title: 11β-hydroxysteroid DehydroGenase Type 1-targeted Drug Development for Diabetes: Status and Research in Our Group
Dr. Guang Liang, Associate Professor, Director of Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Research Center, Wenzhou Medical College, China

16:20-16:40

Conclusion and Discussion

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