Drug DELIVERY Specific Seminar – Suzanne Ponik, PhD
This Drug DELIVERY Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Suzanne Ponik of UW–Madison: "The Extracellular Matrix and Breast Cancer: Potential Targets for Anti-Cancer Therapies"
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This Drug DELIVERY Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Suzanne Ponik of UW–Madison: "The Extracellular Matrix and Breast Cancer: Potential Targets for Anti-Cancer Therapies"
The Busse Lecture series brings speakers to the School of Pharmacy who have a fundamental research interest combined with a strong knowledge of the industrial pharmaceutical research environment.
This Drug ACTION Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Bo Li of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: "Biosynthesis and Mode of Action of Natural Product Antibiotics"
This Drug DELIVERY Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Joanna Burdette of the University of Illinois Chicago: "Imaging and Microfluidic Technology to Study High Grade Serous Cancer"
This Drug DISCOVERY Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Craig Lindsley of Vanderbilt University: "Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Target Movement Disorders: Discovery to Clinic"
Dr. Zhang will discuss the biological functionalization of polymeric nanoparticles with a layer of membrane coating derived from natural cells, focusing on the use of these cell-mimicking nanoparticles for the treatment of bacterial and viral infections.
The Natural Products Discovery Center (NPDC) at UF Scripps Biomedical Research houses one of the world’s largest actinobacterial strain collections, totaling ~125,000 strains. These strains, isolated over the last eight decades and from 69 different countries, encode natural product chemical and biological diversity that are impossible to reproduce in laboratory settings today. Professor Shen will talk about his group's efforts to launch a large-scale genome sequencing campaign to establish the Natural Products Genomics Resource Center (NPGRC) at NPDC. The sequenced genomes will be used to create the NPGRC database, which, together with the strains, will be made available to the scientific community to enable natural product studies and drug discovery.
This Drug DELIVERY Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Meixiong Wu of Harvard Medical School: "Simulation of Natural Biological Processes for Innovative Biotechnologies"
This Drug ACTION Specific Seminar will feature Dr. Oren Becher of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: "Diffuse Midline Glioma - Which therapeutic targets are relevant?"
"The Male Pill: Are We there Yet?"
To provide couples with additional safe and reversible options for contraception, the development of non-hormonal contraceptives for both men and women is highly desirable to assist with family planning and reducing unintended pregnancies. In collaboration with the Wolgemuth group at Columbia University we have discovered the non-hormonal male contraceptive agent YCT529 that is targeting retinoic acid receptor alpha, a validated male contraceptive target. Together with our industrial partner Your Choice Therapeutics (YCT) we are developing YCT529 for first-in-human clinical trials. The presentation will discuss the discovery and development of YCT529 including the preclinical efficacy in mouse and non-human primates.