Drug Discovery in the 21st Century



Monday June 11, 2012

*Some titles are tentative. Speakers and titles are subject to change

Session

Topic

Speaker

Company

Time

SESSION I - New and Emerging Targets in Oncology
Discovery and SAR exploration of a novel series of potent and selective mTOR kinase inhibitors

Deborah Mortensen

Celgene

 

Discovery of Orally Bioavailable, Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK)

Greg Ott

Cephalon

Progress in targeted covalent inhibitors in oncology

TBD

Avila

Antibody Drug Conjugates: A new Horizon for Cancer Treatment

Chakrapani Subramanyam

Pfizer

SESSION II - Probes in the Public Sector
  

Chemical Probes for Epigenetics

Dafydd Owen

Pfizer

Drug Discovery at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a blend of academic and pharma

Jim Barrow

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
SESSION III - CNS - Emerging Targets
 

Discovery of Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists MK-4305 and MK-6096 for the Treatment of Insomnia

Chris Cox Merck
KEYNOTE Frontiers in Molecular Medicine: Development of Proof-of-Concept Chemical Probes Targeting Cysteine Proteases, Monocarboxylate Transporter-1 (Mct-1), Liver Receptor Homolog-1 (LRH-1) and the Cell Cycle Checkpoint Regulator Wee-1 William Roush Scripps Florida