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CURRENT FALL 2010

 

Dr. Bjarke Ebert

Senior Principal Scientist, H. Lundbeck A/S, Denmark

Wednesday, February 23
4:00 p.m.
Searle Auditorium, Lurie Research Building
Chicago Campus

Faculty host: Professor Richard Miller

 

Leonard Guarente, PhD

Director, Glenn Laboratory for the Science of Aging
Novartis Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Topic: Sirtuins and Aging

Tuesday, December 7, 2010
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Hughes Auditorium,
Lurie Research Building, Chicago Campus

Co-sponsor: IGP, Lectures in the Life Sciences

PREVIOUS FALL 2010

 

Jeffrey Aubé, PhD

Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas

Topic: Synthesis and Chemistry of Unconventional Lactams

Thursday, November 18, 2010
4:30 p.m.
Tech L211
Evanston Campus

Faculty Host:  Professor Regan Thomson
Co-sponsor: Department of Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Lecture

15th ANNUAL DRUG DISCOVERY SYMPOSIUM 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Research Bldg, Chicago Campus
Faculty Host: Marty Watterson
Co-sponsors: Takeda, Sigma-Aldrich, CNADC, IGP
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Frank Longo, MD, Phd
George & Lucy Becker Professor and Chair
Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine
Development of Neurotrophin Small Molecule Ligands: New Approaches for Targeting Neuropsychiatric Disease Mechanisms
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Dorothy Hanck, PhD

Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago

Title: How to Make an Antiarrhythmic Drug Out of a Local Anesthetic:  Drug Interactions with Voltage-gated Na Channels

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Pancoe Auditorium, Evanston Campus
Video conferenced to Ward 5-230,
Chicago Campus

Faculty Host: Professor Indira Raman
Co-sponsor: Dept. of Neurobiology & Physiology

 

SUMMER 2010 Continuing Education Events

Please join us in welcoming Professor Paul A. Wender of Stanford University.
Professor Wender will be presenting this year's Myron L. and Muriel S. Bender Distinguished Summer Lecture in Organic Chemistry. Download PDF.

The Lecture Schedule is as follows:

7/08/10
The Chemistry-Medicine Continuum: Chemistry and Design Driven First-In-Class Approaches to Alzheimer's Disease and HIV/AIDS Eradication

Thursday, July 8, 2010 4:00 P.M., Tech L211

7/09/10
Drug Delivery: A Grand Challenge In Science And A New Approach To Resistant Disease

Friday, July 9, 2010 4:00 P.M., Tech L211

 

SPRING 2010 Continuing Education Events

3/24/10
Redox Chemistry Underlies Protein Misfolding and Synaptic Damage in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Baldwin Auditorium, Lurie Cancer Center, Chicago Campus
Host:  CMIDD T32 Trainees

Stuart Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Del E. Webb Neuroscience, Aging and Stem Cell Research Center;
Program Director and Professor
for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Burnham Institute for Medical Research
La Jolla, CA

4/21/10
Organoborons as Potential Therapeutics

Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Ryan Hall (Nano) 4003,
Evanston Campus
Host:  Professor Rick Silverman

Charles Ding, Ph.D.
Vice President, Chemistry
Anacor Pharmaceuticals
Palo Alto, CA

5/20/10
Drug Targeting of the c-Myc and G-Quadruplex and Associated Proteins to Inhibit Gene Transcription

Thursday, May 20, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Ryan Hall (Nano) 4003,
Evanston Campus
Host:  Professor Rick Silverman
Co-sponsor: Department of Chemistry

Laurence Hurley, Ph. D.
Howard J. Schaeffer Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Professor of Chemistry; Associate Director, BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

6/3/10
Organic Chemistry Lecture

Thursday, June 3, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Ryan Hall (Nano) 4003,
Evanston Campus
Host:  Professor Rick Silverman
Co-sponsor:  Department of Chemistry

David Sherman, Ph.D.
Hans W. Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Professor, Chemistry; Director, Center for Chemical Genomics, Life Sciences Institute
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI