Agenda

Monday, May 14, 2012
11:45 a.m.- 5 p.m.
D’Angelo Center Ballroom
 

11:45 – 12:30 p.m.Registration, Check-in, Lunch

12:40 – 12:45 p.m.Welcoming Remarks
Dr. Vijaya L. Korlipara
Director, Institute for Biotechnology
 
12:45 – 12:50 p.m.Greetings from the Provost
Julia A. Upton, RSM, Ph.D.

12:50 – 1 p.m.Recognition of Dr. Diana Bartelt
Founding Director, Institute for Biotechnology
Dr. Diane Hergenrother
Associate Provost
 
1– 1:45 p.m.“New era of drug discovery for Muscle and Metabolic Diseases”
Dr. Esther Latres
Senior Fellow, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, NY
 
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.“Development of modulators of multidrug resistance-linked ABC drug transporters”
Dr. Suresh V. Ambudkar
Senior Investigator, Chief, Transport Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Cell Biology, CCR, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD 
 
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.“Engineering Enzymes to Self-Assemble into Catalytic Biomaterials”
Dr. Scott Banta
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, NY
 
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.Coffee Break
 
3:30 – 4:15 p.m.“Opportunities and Challenges Using Natural Products in Oncology Drug Discovery”
Dr. Gunda I. Georg
Professor and Department Head, Robert Vince Endowed Chair McKnight Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Medicinal Chemistry Director, Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, MN
 
4:15 – 5 p.m.“The Discovery of OSI-906 (Linsitinib), a potent and highly selective dual inhibitor of IGF-1R and IR currently advancing through clinical trials for the treatment of cancer”
Dr. Mark Mulvihill
Director of Chemistry, Oncology, OSI Pharmaceuticals LLC, a subsidiary of Astellas US,  1 Bioscience Park Dr., Farmingdale, NY
 
5 - 5:05 p.m.Closing Remarks
Irvin Hirshfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences