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BIT's 2nd Annual 

 

International Conference of Medichem-2011

 

Theme: Master Drug Discovery Chemistry

 

Time: August 9-11, 2011

Venue: Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China

Opening Ceremony

Time: 09:00-09:10, August 9, 2011

Keynote Forum

Time: 09:10-11:20, August 9, 2011

Moderator

Dr. Xiaohu Zhang, Executive Director of Medicinal Chemistry, BioDuro-PPD, China

09:10-09:20

Chair' s Opening Remark

09:20-09:50

Title: Next Generation Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Hans-Joachim Böhm, Global Head of Chemistry & Center Manager Pharma Research Basel, Roche, Switzerland 

09:50-10:20

Title: Reduction of Drug Discovery Cycle Time  through the Use of Enabling Chemistry Technologies

Dr. Stevan W Djuric, Senior Director, Medicinal Chemistry Technologies and Structural Chemistry, Advanced Technology, Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abbott Laboratories, USA

10:20-10:50

Title: Theravance’s Mulitvalent Approach to Dual Pharmacology: First-in-Class Clinical Candidates for Treatment of Resistant Bacteria and Respiratory Disease

Dr. Dan Marquess, Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, Theravance Inc, USA

10:50-11:20

Title: Enantiomeric Iminosugars – Small Accessible Carbohydrate Mimics

Dr. George Fleet, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

Track 1: Biosciences and Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry

Session 1-1: Molecular & Cell Biology for Medicinal Chemistry
Time: 13:30-15:35, August 9, 2011 (Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Matthew Hsu, R&D Director,  Merck Millipore, USA

13:30-13:55

Keynote Speech:

Title: The Selectivity Profiling of Small Molecule GPCR Compounds Using Novel Cell-based Assays

Dr. Matthew Hsu, R&D Director, Merck Millipore, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: Cellular Response and Signaling Pathways to Novel Antitumor Organometallic Ruthenium Complexes

Dr. Jana Kasparkova, Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Department of Biophysics, Palacky University, Czech Republic

14:20-14:45

Title: Chemical Modifications of siRNAs to Achieve Spatiotemporal Control of Gene Expression

Dr. Samit Shah, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South University School of Pharmacy, USA

14:45-15:10

Title: Epigenetic Targets of Dietary Supplements

Dr. Mingzhu Fang, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
15:10-15:35

Title: Effect of Genetic Variation on Drug Response: The Importance of Pharmacogenomics in Personalized Medicine

 

Dr. Farid Menaa, Director R&D, Flurotronics Inc., USA

Session 1-2: Systems Biology, Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry

Time: 15:45-17:00, August 9, 2011 (Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair

Dr. Takeshi Kimura, Corporate Executive Officer, General Manager, R&D Planning Department, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Japan

15:45-16:10

Title: Using in Silico Studies and Physical Experiments to Advance Biomedicine from Therapeutic Peptides to DNA Sequencing

Dr. Glenn J. Martyna, Professor, IBM TJ Watson Research Center and School of Physics, University of Edinburgh, USA

16:10-16:35

Title: The Potential Use of Amino Acids as a Metabolomic Subset

Dr. Takeshi Kimura, Corporate Executive Officer, General Manager, R&D Planning Department, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Japan

16:35-17:00

Title: Design and Development of ‘Guided Molecular Missiles’ for Tumor-targeting Chemotherapy

Dr. Iwao Ojima, University Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University – State University of New York, USA


Session 1-3: Bioinformatics,Chemoinformatics,Structural Biology and Medicinal Chemistry  

Time: 13:30-16:20, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301,3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Kam Y. J. Zhang, Unit Leader, Zhang Initiative Research Unit, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan

13:30-13:55
Title: Scaffold-based Drug Design: An Efficient Tool for the Discovery of New Chemical Entities

Dr. Kam Y. J. Zhang, Unit Leader, Zhang Initiative Research Unit, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan

13:55-14:20

Title: Issues in the Structural Registration of Biopharmaceuticals

Dr. Jan Holst Jensen, CEO & Founder, Biochemfusion Aps, Denmark
14:20-14:45

Title: Relationship between Topology and Selectivity for Druglike Molecules

Dr. Yidong Yang, Senior Scientist of Computational Chemistry, Integrated Drug Discovery Service Business Unit, Crown Bioscience Inc. (Taicang), China
14:45-15:10

Title: Structural Changes Induced in DNA by New Platinum Drugs. Relations to Their Antitumor Activity

Dr. Viktor Brabec, Professor, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Department of Biophysics, Palacky University, Czech Republic

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:55

Title: Chloroquine Action at the Molecular Level by Means of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Dr. Monika Walczak, Laboratory of X-ray and Electron Microscopy Research, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Poland

15:55-16:20

Title: HIV-1 Integrase Strand Transfer Chelating Inhibitors: A Focus on Metal Binding

Dr. Emilia Fisicaro, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Parma, USA


Session 1-4: Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design

Time: 08:30-09:45, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Labs, USA

08:30-08:55

Title: Discovery of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 (SCD1) Inhibitors

Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Labs, USA

08:55-09:20

Title: Carboxylesterases: A New Target for Drug-Drug Interactions?

Dr. Robert B. Parker, Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy, USA

09:20-09:45

Title: Optimization of ADME Properties Towards Clinical Candidate Selection

Dr. Kantharaj Ethirajulu, Head, Preclinical Development, S*BIO Pte Ltd, Singapore


Session 1-5: Microbiology and Medicinal Chemistry

Time: 10:30-11:20, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC
Chair Dr. Dianqing Sun, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA

10:30-10:55

Title: Natural Products-inspired Novel Antimicrobial Agents

Dr. Dianqing Sun, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA

:55-11:20

Title: Development of Novel Fungicides: Journey from Benchtop Science to Practical Product

Dr. Cheng-Wei Tom Chang, Associate Professor, Utah State University, USA


Session 1-6: Oncology and Medicinal Chemistry

Time: 13:30-17:10, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Kinfe Ken Redda, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Acting, Vice President for Research, Florida A&M University, USA

Co-chair: Dr. Ke Ding, Research Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Chemical Biology, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

13:30-13:50

Title: Selective Nuclear Export Modulators for Cancer: CRM1, A Novel Druggable Target for Small Molecules

Dr. Vincent P. Sandanayaka, Head of Chemistry, Karyopharm Therapeutics, USA

13:50-14:10

Title: The Design and Synthesis of N-Pyridylcarbonyltetrahydropyridines as Effective Anticancer Agents

Dr. Kinfe Ken Redda, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Acting, Vice President for Research, Florida A&M University, USA

14:10-14:30

Title: New Tumor Suppressor Gene-NDRG2

Dr. Jian Zhang, Associate Professor, The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Fourth Military Medical University, China

14:30-14:50

Title: The Mechanisms of Mitotic Progression and Development of Novel Anti-mitotic Cancer Therapies

 

Dr. Sang Hyun Lee, Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore
14:50-15:10

Title: Cabazitaxel-Discovery and Development of a New Prostate Cancer Treatment

Dr. Hervé Bouchard, LGCR / Natural Product & Protein Chemistry, Sanofi Aventis,  France

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-15:50

Title: Identification of GZD824 as a New Kinase Inhibitor Overcoming Gleevec Clinical Resistance

Dr. Ke Ding, Research Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Chemical Biology, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

15:50-16:10

Title: Novel Strategies in Anti-cancer Drug Discovery

Dr. Shigetoshi Kadota, Professor and Director, University of Toyama, Japan

16:10-16:30

Title: The Preparation of Chiral Compounds and Their Antitumor Studies

 

Dr. Kim Hung Lam, Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

16:30-16:50

Title: Novel Class of Ruthenium-Therapeutic Drugs and Implications for Cancer

Dr. Denise de Oliveira Silva, Professor, Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil
16:50-17:10

Title: A Molecule Library Targeting Cancer Stem Cells

Dr. Yue Chen, Professor, Nankai University, China

 

Track 2: Novel Technologies in Medicinal Chemistry

Session 2-1: Novel Technologies in Medichem

Time: 08:30-11:45, August 10, 2011( Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Thomas A. Engler, Senior Research Advisor, Discovery Chemistry Research & Technologies, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Company, USA
Co-chair: Dr. Chris De Savi, Drug Discovery Leader, Oncology Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca, UK

08:30-08:55

Keynote Speech:

Title: A New Imaging Nanotechnology for Drug Development

Dr. Lodewyk Kock, Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa
08:55-09:20

Title: Merging High-content Imaging, Informatics and SAR in Phenotypic Drug Discovery

Dr. Thomas A. Engler, Senior Research Advisor, Discovery Chemistry Research & Technologies, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Company, USA
09:20-09:45

Title: Iterative Efficiency in Medicinal Chemistry: Evolutionary Approaches to the Development of MCR Derived Scaffold Diversity

Dr. Christopher Hulme, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Director, BIO5 Oro Valley Drug Discovery, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, USA
09:45-10:10

Title: General Rapid C-[11C]Methylation and C-[18F]Fluoromethylation: Revolutionary New Methodologies for the Synthesis of Short-lived PET Molecular Probes

Dr. Masaaki Suzuki, Deputy Director, RIIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science, Molecular Imaging Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory, Japan

10:10-10:30 Coffee Break 
10:30-10:55

Title: The Discovery of Highly Selective Non-Zn Binding Inhibitors of Collagenase-3 Using a Structure Based Approach

Dr. Chris De Savi, Drug Discovery Leader, Oncology Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca, UK

10:55-11:20

Title: The Cytotoxicity of Ferrocene-containg Complexes are Governed by Structural and Electrochemical Properties

Dr. Jannie C. Swarts, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of the Free State, South Africa
11:20-11:45

Title: Simplifying Analytical Work-up For the Medicinal Chemist

Dr. K. K. Bhagchandani, Director of Asia & Pacific Operations, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs), Asia Pacific Liaison Office, India
 

 Track 3: Rational Target-based Drug Design and Synthesis

Session 3-1: New Computer-Aided Drug Design
Time: 13:30-16:45, August 9, 2011(Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 303, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Yuk Sham, Professor and Assistant Director, The Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, USA

Co-Chair: Dr. Tapio Atso Hase, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland

13:30-13:55

Title: Neural Networks Based Drug Discovery Approach

Dr. Guanhua Chen, Professor and Head,  Departement of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, China

13:55-14:20

Title: There is a New Kid in Town – Are These Topomers Really Any Good?

Dr. Gunther Stahl, Director Science & Sales, PacRim, Tripos, A Certara™ Company, Germany

14:20-14:45

Title: Rational Design of HIV in Strand Transfer Inhibitors

Dr. Yuk Sham, Professor and Assistant Director, The Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, USA

14:45-15:10

Title: Design and Synthesis of Histone Deacetylases Inhibitor
Dr. Hui Zhang, Investigator, Department of Chemistry, ShenYang Medical Colleague, China 

15:10-15:30  Coffee Break
15:30-15:55

Title: Structural Insights of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 (TRPV1) from Homology Modeling, Docking, and Mutational Studies for the Discovery of TRPV1 Modulators

Dr. Sun Choi, Professor, College of Pharmacy, Division of Life & Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Core Research Center for Cell Signaling & Drug Discovery, Ewha Womans University, Korea

15:55-16:20

Title: Design of Improved HIV Protease Inhibitors through Fragment-based and Induced-fit Docking

Dr.  Art E. Cho, Professor and Chairman, Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Korea University, Korea
16:20-16:45

Title: GSK-3 Kinase as a Potential Therapeutic Target

Dr. N. R. Jena, Research Scientist, Physics Department, Ravenshaw University, India

Session 3-2: Fragment-Based Drug Discovery

Time: 15:55-16:45, August 9, 2011 (Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Alexander Mayweg, Head of Discovery Chemistry, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED China), F. Hoffmann-La Roche, China

Co- Chair:

Dr. Michael H. Rabinowitz, Director, Cardiovascular Metabolic Research, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., USA

15:55-16:20

Title: Fragment Based Versus Fragment Inspired Drug Discovery: Recent Trends and Perspectives

Dr. Alexander Mayweg, Head of Discovery Chemistry, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED China), F. Hoffmann-La Roche, China

16:20-16:45

Title: Structure Based Design and Biological Evaluation of Benzimidazole HIF Prolyl Hydroxylase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Anemia

Dr. Michael H. Rabinowitz, Director, Cardiovascular Metabolic Research, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., USA

Session 3-3: Targeting Protein-Protein Interaction

Time: 08:30-09:45, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Kurt Deshayes, Senior Scientist, Department of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech Inc., USA

08:30-08:55

Title: Disruption of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacterial Replisome

Dr. Kathleen Turner, Team Leader, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Australia

08:55-09:20

Title: Antagonizing the IAP Proteins to Induce Programmed Cell Death: Designing a New Class of Cancer Therapeutics

Dr. Kurt Deshayes, Senior Scientist, Department of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech Inc., USA

09:20-09:45

Title: Chemical Chaperone Therapy for Neuronogenic Lysosomal Diseases

Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Research Professor, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan

Session 3-4: Targeting Ion Channels and Targeting Signaling Pathway

Time: 13:30-15:10, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair: 

Dr. Arthur M. “Buzz” Brown, Executive Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer, ChanTest Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, USA

13:30-13:55

Title: RG3487: Preclinical Research and Early Development of a Nicotinic Alpha 7 Partial Agonist

Dr. Hans Maag, Independent Consultant, Previously VP Chemistry, Roche Palo Alto, LLC, USA

13:55-14:20

Title: Screening Ion Channel Targets for Drug Safety and Discovery

 

Dr. Arthur M. “Buzz” Brown, Executive Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer, ChanTest Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, USA

14:20-14:45

Title: Progress in Development of the New Antiviral Agent HPMP-5-azaC and its Derivatives

Dr. Marcela Krecmerova, Head of the Team “Nucleoside and Nucleotide Analogues for Biomedical Applications”, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic

14:45-15:10

Title: Targeting Multiple Protein Conformations for Design of Kinase Inhibitors

Dr. Jeffrey Jielou Liao, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Session 3-5: Kinases/Phosphatase Inhibitor Chemistry

Time: 08:30-10:35, August 11, 2011 (Thursday),  Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Qun Dang, Senior Investigator, Merck & Co., Inc. USA

Co-chair: Dr. Robin Davies, Research Director, Muscagen Limited, UK

08:30-08:55

Title: The Discovery of A-1070722: A Potent and Selective CNS-penetrant GSK-3 Inhibitor for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative and Behavioral Disorders

Dr. Sean C Turner, Group Leader & Chemistry Outsourcing Head, Abbott Laboratories, USA

08:55-09:20

Title: Discovery of a Second Generation FBPase Inhibitor, MB07803, With Improved Oral Bioavailability

Dr. Qun Dang, Senior Investigator, Merck & Co., Inc., USA

09:20-09:45

Title: Phosphorylase Kinase: From Biochemistry to Therapeutics

Dr. Madalene Heng, Professor of Medicine/Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, USA

09:45-10:10

Title: Single-molecule Manipulation and Detection Platform for

Studying Multitargeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor PD153035

Dr. Tzu-Sen Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Dental Technology, Institute of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Research Center for Biomedical Implants and Microsurgery Devices, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan

10:10-10:35

Title: Regulation of the GDP Kinase Mechanism within a Ligand-Receptor-G Protein Ternary Complex of the Rhodopsin Class

Dr. Robin Davies, Research Director, Muscagen Limited, UK

Track 4: Lead Optimization toward Drug Candidates

Session 4-1: Drug-Like Molecules, QSAR and SAR

Time: 13:30-15:35, August 9, 2011 (Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Neil Berry, Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK

13:30-13:55

Title: Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptor (CRF-R) Antagonist for the Treatment of Depression

Dr. Xiaohu Zhang, Executive Director of Medicinal Chemistry, BioDuro-PPD, China

13:55-14:20

Title: New SMN Modulators for the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Discovery, SAR and Biological Properties

Dr. Juan Jose Marugan, Team Leader, NIH Chemical Genomics Center, NHGRI, National Institutes of Health, USA

14:20-14:45

Title: Molecular Modelling: Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors against Malaria

Dr. Neil Berry, Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK

14:45-15:10

Title: Mass Spectrometry as a New Structural Method to Determine Small Molecule Binding to Intact Membrane Proteins

Dr. Nelson P. Barrera, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

15:10-15:35

Title: Antimarial properties of indolone-N-oxides

Pr. Françoise Nepveu, Professor, Pharma-Dev, University of Toulouse, France


Session 4-2: Reduce Toxicity Risk and Optimize ADME/Tox: In Silico, In Vitro and in Vivo Correlation

Time: 08:30-11:20, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 303, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:
 

Dr. Jianling Wang, Head of ADME Profiling Cambridge, MAP, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA

08:30-08:55

Title: Optimization of the Antiinfective Natural Product, Cryptolepine

Dr. Seth Y. Ablordeppey, Professor and Interim Dean, College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University, USA

08:55-09:20

Title: Maximizing the Outcome of in Silico, In Vitro and in Vivo ADMET Tools to Win the Drug Hunting Battles

Dr. Jianling Wang, Head of ADME Profiling Cambridge, MAP, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA

09:20-09:45

Title: Guiding Decisions to Target Compounds with an Optimal Balance of Properties
Dr. Matthew Segall, CEO, Optibrium Ltd, UK

09:45-10:10
 

Title: Role of Hepatic Transporters in the Hepatobiliary Disposition of New Chemical Entities in Discovery

Dr. Guoyu Pan, Professor, Center for Drug Safety Evaluation and Research, Shanghai Institute of Materica Medica (SIMM), China

10:10-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:55

Title: An Approach to Quick Lead Optimization including Physicochemical and Adme Profiling  

Dr. K. K. Bhagchandani, Director of Asia & Pacific Operations, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs), Asia Pacific Liaison Office, India
10:55-11:20

Title: Novel Approach to Explore Antiplatelet Activity of Antihypertensive Drug 

Dr. Sateesh Belemkar, Head, Department of Pharmacology, SVKM’s NMIMS, School of Pharmacy & Technology Management, India

Track 5: Biotherapeutic and Natural Product Medicinal Chemistry

Session 5-1: Natural Product Synthesis, Biology, and Structure-Function Studies

Time: 08:30-11:50, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 305 A, 3rd Floor, BICC

Chair:

Dr. William Wei-Guo Jia, VP (Research), Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese, China

Co-chair: Dr. Janine Cossy, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, France

08:30-08:50

Title: Access to Natural Products and Analogues with Antitumor Activity

Dr. Janine Cossy, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, France

08:50-09:10

Title: Drug Discovery from Natural Product: From Information to Informatics

Dr. William Wei-Guo Jia, VP (Research), Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese, China

09:10-09:30

Title: Optimization of Interleukin-5 Anatgonist Looking for Novel Anti-asthmatic Drug

Dr. Sang-Hun Jung, Professor, Chungnam National University, Korea

09:30-09:50

Title: Anti-inflammatory, Anti-cancer and Anti-viral Effects of a Nupar Lutea Extract which Inhibits NF-kB

Dr. Jacob Gopas, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and, Laboratory of Oncology, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel

09:50-10:10

Title: Phytoestrogens in Drug Discovery

Dr. Kristiina Wähälä, Professor, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland

10:10-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-10:50

Title: Side Effect of Antidepressants Drugs on Salivar Glands and it´s Treatment

Dr. Ana Maria Trindade Gregio, Pharmacology Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil
10:50-11:10

Title: A Natural Pathway Towards Drug Discovery

Dr. Bhupesh Samant, Assistant Professor, Natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry (NPMC) Research Group, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Rhodes University, South Africa

11:10-11:30

Title: Isatisine A, A Potential Anti-virus Agent from Traditional Chinese Medicine

Dr. Guangxin Liang, Professor, The State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University, China

11:30-11:50

Title: Glibenclamide-like Analogues: Potential Anti-hyperglycemic Compounds

Dr. Fatima Regina Mena Barreto Silva, Associated Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Session 5-2: Medicinal Chemistry for Marine Natural Products

Time: 10:45-12:00, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 302, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Hendrik Luesch, Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, USA

10:45-11:10

Title: Towards Ladderane Lipids: Supramolecular Construction of Molecular Ladderanes in the Solid State

Dr. Len MacGillivray, Professor, The University of Iowa, USA

11:10-11:35

Title: Potent New Anticancer Agents from Marine Cyanob

Dr. Hendrik Luesch, Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, USA
11:35-12:00

Title: Anti-glioblastoma-The Breakthrough Point in Pursuing New Anticancer Drugs from Saponins?

Dr. Hai-Feng Tang, Professor and Vice Director, Department of Pharmacy, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, China

 

Track 6: Drug Synthesis and Production

Session 6-1: Medicinal Chemistry for Major Disease Therapeutics

Time: 09:55-11:15, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Sergey Vasilevskiy, Professor, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Co-chair:

Dr. Ioannis N. Houpis, Senior Research Fellow, Janssen-The Pharmaceutical Division of Johnson and Johnson, API Development-Small Molecules, Belgium

09:55-10:15

Title: Click Chemistry is Convenient Tool for Preparing of Biological Active New Bioconjugates: Betulonic Acid - Heterocycles

Dr. Sergey Vasilevskiy, Professor, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
10:15-10:35

Title: New C-Glycosylation Methodology

Dr. Ioannis N. Houpis, Senior Research Fellow, Janssen-The Pharmaceutical Division of Johnson and Johnson, API Development-Small Molecules, Belgium

10:35-10:55

Title: Development of ARA-2 an Anti Depression Candidate Drug from Medichem to Process Development

Dr. Wei Tian, Associate Principal Scientist, Chemical Science, Pharmaceutical Development, AstraZeneca R&D Södertälje, Sweden

10:55-11:15

Title: Polyphosphoesters - Promising Polymers for Drug Deliver

Dr. Kolio Troev, Professor and Director of the Institute of Polymers, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Track 7: Medichem R & D Outsourcing Alliance Trend

Session 7-1: Medichem R & D Outsourcing Alliance Trend

Time: 11:25-12:15, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Ying Wang, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Laboratories, USA

11:25-11:50

Title: Effective Management of 5 year Abbott-WuXi File Enhancement Collaborations

Dr. Ying Wang, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Laboratories, USA

11:50-12:15

Title: Heterocyclic Compounds with Adenosine Receptor Affinity

Dr. Barbara Matuszczak, Associate Professor, Institute of Pharmacy / Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria

 

Young Scientists Forum

Time: 15:30-17:10, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 302, BICC

Chair:

Dr. Yong  Miao, Student, Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry, University of Lille, France

15:30-15:55

Title: Organocatalysis: A Versatile and Metal Free Strategy for the Synthesis of Polymeric Drug Delivery Devices

Dr. Yong  Miao, Student, Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry, University of Lille, France
15:25-15:50

Title: Inhibition of Peptidylglycine α-amidating Monooxygenase (PAM)

Dr. Feihua Cao, Student, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Australia

16:20-16:45

Title: Yeast "Contraceptives" also Novel Drugs

Dr. Chantel Wendy Swart, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UNESCO-MIRCEN: Industrial Biotechnology, Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Biotechnology, University of the Free State, South Africa
16:45-17:10

Title: Drug Discovery Portal: an Indispensible Stride toward Lead Optimization Both in Vitro & in Vivo

Dr. Qosay Al-Balas, Assistant Professor, Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Jordan University of Science and Technology [JUST], Jordan

 
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