Schedule
8:55 a.m. | Symposium welcome
Peter Toogood, Ph.D.
Director, Michigan Drug Discovery
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

9:00 a.m. | Research talk: Engineering strategies for modulating the gut microbiome and anti-tumor immunity
James Moon, Ph.D.
J.G. Searle Professor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, U-M College of Pharmacy; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School and College of Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

10:15 a.m. | Research talk: Development of new targeted agents for epigenetic modifiers in leukemia
Jolanta Grembecka, Ph.D.
Richard and Susan Rogel Professor of Cancer Therapeutics and Professor of Pathology, U-M Medical School
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

11:30 a.m. | Coffee/snack break
East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

11:45 a.m. | Research talk: Cell painting for patient-centric disease modeling and drug discovery
Jonny Sexton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, U-M Medical School; Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

1:00 a.m. | Networking lunch
Assembly Hall, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

2:00 p.m. | Research talk: HLA allele-based design of drugs for bone erosion and other conditions
Joseph (Yossi) Holoshitz, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, U-M Medical School
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

3:15 p.m. | Keynote presentation: Adventures in drug hunting
Wendy Young, Ph.D.
Biopharma Executive & Scientific Advisor
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

4:30 p.m. | Closing remarks
Peter Toogood
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School