All seminars will be held in the Medicinal Chemistry Conference Room (Room 323A) of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Most seminars are held on Tuesdays starting at 12:00 noon unless otherwise noted.
To schedule a seminar please contact the Seminar Coordinator
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January
- Monday, Jan. 28, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH-007, Dr. Xinyi Huang (Wyeth), High-Throughput Screening in Lead Discovery
February
- Monday, Feb. 18, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH- 007, Dr. Malcolm MacCoss (Merck Research Laboratory), Discovery of Januvia (sitagliptin), a new treatment for Type 2 Diabetes
March
- Wednesday, March 5, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH- 007, Dr. Lou Lombardo (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Discovery of Dasatinib for CML
- Monday, March 10, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH- 007, Dr. Lou Lombardo (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Discovery of Brivanib, an oral prodrug of a dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor of VEGFR and FGFR signaling
April
- Monday, April 7, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH-007, Dr. Ray Bakhtiar (Merck Research Laboratory), Biologics (siRNA, Mab, peptides)-Part 1
- Wednesday, April 9, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH-007, Dr. Zhoupeng Zhang (Merck Research Laboratory), Metabolic Considerations in Drug Design
- Monday, April 14, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH-007, Dr. Ray Bakhtiar (Merck Research Laboratory), Biologics (siRNA, Mab, peptides)-Part 2
- Tuesday, April 22, 12:00. PH 323A, Yanping Xu (Professor Simon's group),Neuroprotection by Caspase inhibitors for the Development of Anti-Apoptotic Drug
- Tuesday, April 29, 12:00 PH 23A, Dishaben Patel (Professor Arnold's group), SAR by NMR: An Approach to Fragment Based Drug Design
- Wednesday, April 30, 5:00 - 6:20 pm, PH-007, Dean Christopher Molloy (Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers University), The Drug Discovery and Development Process
May
- Tuesday, May 6, 12:00, PH-323A, Julia Coppin (Professor Simon's group), Development of New Antidepressant Drugs: The Serotonergic Receptor Antagonists