International Conference of Medichem-2011
Theme: Master Drug Discovery Chemistry
Time: August 9-11, 2011
Venue: Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
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Opening Ceremony
Time: 09:00-09:10, August 9, 2011
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Keynote Forum
Time: 09:10-11:20, August 9, 2011
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Moderator
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Dr. Xiaohu Zhang, Executive Director of Medicinal Chemistry, BioDuro-PPD, China
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09:10-09:20
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Chair' s Opening Remark
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09:20-09:50

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Title: Next Generation Medicinal Chemistry
Dr. Hans-Joachim Böhm, Global Head of Chemistry & Center Manager Pharma Research Basel, Roche, Switzerland
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09:50-10:20

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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
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10:20-10:50

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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
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10:50-11:20
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Title: Enantiomeric Iminosugars – Small Accessible Carbohydrate Mimics
Dr. George Fleet, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
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Track 1: Biosciences and Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry
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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
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Chair:
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Dr. Matthew Hsu, R&D Director, Merck Millipore, USA
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13:30-13:55
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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
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13:55-14:20
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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
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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
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14:45-15:10
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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 |
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Title: Effect of Genetic Variation on Drug Response: The Importance of Pharmacogenomics in Personalized Medicine
Dr. Farid Menaa, Director R&D, Flurotronics Inc., USA |
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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
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Chair
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Dr. Takeshi Kimura, Corporate Executive Officer, General Manager, R&D Planning Department, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Japan
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15:45-16:10
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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 |
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16:10-16:35
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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
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16:35-17:00
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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
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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
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Chair:
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Dr. Kam Y. J. Zhang, Unit Leader, Zhang Initiative Research Unit, Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan
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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
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Title: Issues in the Structural Registration of Biopharmaceuticals
Dr. Jan Holst Jensen, CEO & Founder, Biochemfusion Aps, Denmark |
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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 |
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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
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Coffee Break
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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
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Title: HIV-1 Integrase Strand Transfer Chelating Inhibitors: A Focus on Metal Binding
Dr. Emilia Fisicaro, Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Parma, USA
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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
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Chair:

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Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Labs, USA
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08:30-08:55
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Title: Discovery of Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 (SCD1) Inhibitors
Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Labs, USA
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08:55-09:20
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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 |
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09:20-09:45
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Title: Optimization of ADME Properties Towards Clinical Candidate Selection
Dr. Kantharaj Ethirajulu, Head, Preclinical Development, S*BIO Pte Ltd, Singapore
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Session 1-5: Microbiology and Medicinal Chemistry
Time: 10:30-11:20, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC |
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Dr. Dianqing Sun, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA |
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10:30-10:55
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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 |
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10:55-11:20
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Title: Development of Novel Fungicides: Journey from Benchtop Science to Practical Product
Dr. Cheng-Wei Tom Chang, Associate Professor, Utah State University, USA
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Session 1-6: Oncology and Medicinal Chemistry
Time: 13:30-17:10, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC
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Chair:
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Dr. Kinfe Ken Redda, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Acting, Vice President for Research, Florida A&M University, USA
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Dr. Ke Ding, Research Professor and Deputy Director, Institute of Chemical Biology, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
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13:30-13:50
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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 |
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13:50-14:10
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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
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14:10-14:30
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Title: New Tumor Suppressor Gene-NDRG2
Dr. Jian Zhang, Associate Professor, The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Fourth Military Medical University, China
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14:30-14:50
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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 |
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Title: Cabazitaxel-Discovery and Development of a New Prostate Cancer Treatment
Dr. Hervé Bouchard, LGCR / Natural Product & Protein Chemistry, Sanofi Aventis, France |
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15:10-15:30
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Coffee Break
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15:30-15:50
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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
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15:50-16:10
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Title: Novel Strategies in Anti-cancer Drug Discovery
Dr. Shigetoshi Kadota, Professor and Director, University of Toyama, Japan
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16:10-16:30
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Title: The Preparation of Chiral Compounds and Their Antitumor Studies
Dr. Kim Hung Lam, Lecturer, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
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16:30-16:50
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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 |
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Title: A Molecule Library Targeting Cancer Stem Cells
Dr. Yue Chen, Professor, Nankai University, China |
Track 2: Novel Technologies in Medicinal Chemistry
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Session 2-1: Novel Technologies in Medichem
Time: 08:30-11:45, August 10, 2011( Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC |
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Chair:
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Dr. Thomas A. Engler, Senior Research Advisor, Discovery Chemistry Research & Technologies, Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Company, USA |
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Dr. Chris De Savi, Drug Discovery Leader, Oncology Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca, UK |
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08:30-08:55

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Keynote Speech:
Title: A New Imaging Nanotechnology for Drug Development
Dr. Lodewyk Kock, Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Coffee Break |
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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
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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 |
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Chair:
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Dr. Yuk Sham, Professor and Assistant Director, The Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, USA
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Dr. Tapio Atso Hase, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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13:30-13:55
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Title: Neural Networks Based Drug Discovery Approach
Dr. Guanhua Chen, Professor and Head, Departement of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, China
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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
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14:20-14:45
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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 |
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14:45-15:10
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Title: Design and Synthesis of Histone Deacetylases Inhibitor
Dr. Hui Zhang, Investigator, Department of Chemistry, ShenYang Medical Colleague, China
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Coffee Break |
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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
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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 |
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Session 3-2: Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
Time: 15:55-16:45, August 9, 2011 (Tuesday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC
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Chair:
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Dr. Alexander Mayweg, Head of Discovery Chemistry, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED China), F. Hoffmann-La Roche, China
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Co- Chair:
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Dr. Michael H. Rabinowitz, Director, Cardiovascular Metabolic Research, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C., USA |
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15:55-16:20
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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
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16:20-16:45
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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 |
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Session 3-3: Targeting Protein-Protein Interaction
Time: 08:30-09:45, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, 3rd Floor, BICC
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Chair:
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Dr. Kurt Deshayes, Senior Scientist, Department of Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech Inc., USA |
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08:30-08:55
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Title: Disruption of Protein-Protein Interactions in the Bacterial Replisome
Dr. Kathleen Turner, Team Leader, CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Australia
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08:55-09:20
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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 |
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09:20-09:45
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Title: Chemical Chaperone Therapy for Neuronogenic Lysosomal Diseases
Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Research Professor, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan |
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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
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Dr. Arthur M. “Buzz” Brown, Executive Chairman & Chief Scientific Officer, ChanTest Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, USA |
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13:30-13:55
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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 |
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13:55-14:20
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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 |
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14:20-14:45
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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 |
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14:45-15:10
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Title: Targeting Multiple Protein Conformations for Design of Kinase Inhibitors
Dr. Jeffrey Jielou Liao, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China, China |
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Session 3-5: Kinases/Phosphatase Inhibitor Chemistry
Time: 08:30-10:35, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Room No. 302, 3rd Floor, BICC
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Chair:

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Dr. Qun Dang, Senior Investigator, Merck & Co., Inc. USA
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Dr. Robin Davies, Research Director, Muscagen Limited, UK |
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08:30-08:55
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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 |
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08:55-09:20
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Title: Discovery of a Second Generation FBPase Inhibitor, MB07803, With Improved Oral Bioavailability
Dr. Qun Dang, Senior Investigator, Merck & Co., Inc., USA |
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09:20-09:45
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Title: Phosphorylase Kinase: From Biochemistry to Therapeutics
Dr. Madalene Heng, Professor of Medicine/Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, USA
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09:45-10:10
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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
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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
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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 |
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Chair:
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Dr. Neil Berry, Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
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13:30-13:55
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Title: Corticotropin Releasing Factor Receptor (CRF-R) Antagonist for the Treatment of Depression
Dr. Xiaohu Zhang, Executive Director of Medicinal Chemistry, BioDuro-PPD, China |
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13:55-14:20
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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 |
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14:20-14:45
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Title: Molecular Modelling: Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors against Malaria
Dr. Neil Berry, Lecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
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14:45-15:10
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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
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Title: Antimarial properties of indolone-N-oxides
Pr. Françoise Nepveu, Professor, Pharma-Dev, University of Toulouse, France |
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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 |
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Chair:
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Dr. Jianling Wang, Head of ADME Profiling Cambridge, MAP, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA
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08:30-08:55
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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
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08:55-09:20
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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
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09:20-09:45
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Title: Guiding Decisions to Target Compounds with an Optimal Balance of Properties
Dr. Matthew Segall, CEO, Optibrium Ltd, UK
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09:45-10:10
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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 |
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10:10-10:30
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Coffee Break
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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
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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
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Chair:
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Dr. William Wei-Guo Jia, VP (Research), Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese, China
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Dr. Janine Cossy, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, France |
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08:30-08:50
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Title: Access to Natural Products and Analogues with Antitumor Activity
Dr. Janine Cossy, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, France |
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08:50-09:10
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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 |
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09:10-09:30
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Title: Optimization of Interleukin-5 Anatgonist Looking for Novel Anti-asthmatic Drug
Dr. Sang-Hun Jung, Professor, Chungnam National University, Korea |
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09:30-09:50
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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
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Title: Phytoestrogens in Drug Discovery
Dr. Kristiina Wähälä, Professor, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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10:10-10:30
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Coffee Break
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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Session 5-2: Medicinal Chemistry for Marine Natural Products
Time: 10:45-12:00, August 11, 2011 (Thursday), Meeting Room No. 302, BICC
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Dr. Hendrik Luesch, Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, USA
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| 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
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| 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
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Track 6: Drug Synthesis and Production
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Session 6-1: Medicinal Chemistry for Major Disease Therapeutics
Time: 09:55-11:15, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, BICC
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Chair:

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Dr. Sergey Vasilevskiy, Professor, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion of Siberian Branch, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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Dr. Ioannis N. Houpis, Senior Research Fellow, Janssen-The Pharmaceutical Division of Johnson and Johnson, API Development-Small Molecules, Belgium
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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Session 7-1: Medichem R & D Outsourcing Alliance Trend
Time: 11:25-12:15, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 301, BICC
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Chair:
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Dr. Ying Wang, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Laboratories, USA
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| 11:25-11:50 |
Title: Effective Management of 5 year Abbott-WuXi File Enhancement Collaborations
Dr. Ying Wang, Senior Scientist III, Abbott Laboratories, USA
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| 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
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Young Scientists Forum
Time: 15:30-17:10, August 10, 2011 (Wednesday), Meeting Room No. 302, BICC
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Chair:
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Dr. Yong Miao, Student, Catalysis and Solid State Chemistry, University of Lille, France
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| 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
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| 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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