Schedule

8:30 a.m. | Networking with coffee and breakfast
East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

9:00 a.m. | Symposium welcome
Peter Toogood, Ph.D.
Director, Michigan Drug Discovery
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

9:10 a.m. | Research talk: Discovery and engineering of natural product molecules for drug development
David Sherman, Ph.D.
Hans W. Vahlteich Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School; Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Research Professor, Life Sciences Institute
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

10:00 a.m. | Research talk: Small molecule modulators of opioid receptors as potentially safe analgesics
John Traynor, Ph.D.
Edward F Domino Research Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School; Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

10:50 a.m. | Coffee/snack break
East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

11:10 a.m. | Research talk: From mutations to small molecules — Lessons learned from protein phosphatases
Goutham Narla, M.D., Ph.D.
Louis Newburgh Research Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Human Genetics and Program Assistant, Internal Medicine, Medical School
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

12:00 p.m. | Networking lunch
Assembly Hall, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

1:20 p.m. | Student talks
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

1:50 p.m. | Research talk: Enabling technologies for revealing druggable paths in RNA biology
Amanda Garner, Ph.D.
Charles Walgreen Jr Professor and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Director, Interdepartmental Program in Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

2:40 a.m. | Coffee/snack break
East Conference Room, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

3:00 p.m. | Keynote presentation: (R)Evolution in Drug Discovery — Reflections on a 40+ Year Career Journeys
Joel Barrish, Ph.D.
President & CEO, Avilar Therapeutics; Co-Founder, President & CEO, Conveyor Therapeutics; Venture Partner, RA Capital Ventures
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School

4:00 p.m. | Closing remarks
Peter Toogood
Amphitheater, 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School