LAS Faculty Research Symposium – Drug Discovery
March 7, 2024
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Location
Student Center East (SCE) Illinois Rooms
Address
750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60607
Calendar
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Join us at the LAS Faculty Research Symposium on Drug Discovery on March 7, 2024,
from 9 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Illinois Rooms, Student Center East (750 S. Halsted St.).
Lunch and refreshments provided for in-person registered attendees!
All sessions will be livestreamed - register to receive the link!
PROGRAM
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome from Lisa A. Freeman, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UIC
Session 1
9:10 – 9:50 Plenary 1: Paul Hergenrother (UIUC) - "New Strategies for Anticancer and Antibacterial Drug Discovery"
9:50 – 10:30 Plenary 2: Matthew Disney (Wertheim UF Scripps) - "Sequence-Based Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA"
10:30 – 10:50 LAS Drug Discovery Highlights 1: Alexander Adibekian (UIC) - "Novel covalent-reversible chemistry for lysosometargeting
chimaeras"
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:00 Keynote talk 1: James Wells (UCSF) - "Pirating proteins to probe and attack the cancer cell surface"
12:00-12:20 LAS Drug Discovery Highlights 2: Wonhwa Cho (UIC) - "Lipid targeting cancer drugs to combat drug resistance"
12:30 – 2 pm Poster Session
12:20 – 1:30 Lunch
Session 2
1:40 – 2:00 UICentre & Drug Discovery: Paul Carlier & Tom Driver (UIC) - "Partnerships between LAS and UICentre — Past Achievements Drive Future Successes in Translational Research in Drug Discovery and Development"
2:00 – 2:40 Plenary 3: Brian Shoichet (UCSF) - "Following the Rabbit Into Chemical Space"
2:40 – 3:20 Plenary 4: Christina Woo (Harvard) - "Reading and Rewriting Protein Modifications in Cells"
3:20 – 3:40 Coffee Break
3:40 – 4:00 LAS Drug Discovery Highlights 3: Yury Polikanov (UIC) - “An antibiotic preorganized for ribosomal binding overcomes antimicrobial resistance”
4:00 – 4:50 Keynote 2: Dennis Liotta (Emory) - "Making New Drugs The Hard Way"
Reception
5:00 – 7:00 Reception (East Terrace) - refreshments and beverages provided
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Date posted
Nov 15, 2023
Date updated
Mar 6, 2024