SPRING 2005 SEMINAR SERIES
TUESDAYS at 11:00 AM in NCNPR 2066

DATE LECTURER AFFILIATION TITLE
Jan 25 Dr.Randy Wadkins         UM  Chemistry and  Biochemistry   "Designing Camptothecins That Form Stable Complexes with DNA and Topoisomerase I"
Feb 1 Ms. Nidhi Singh      UM Medicinal Chemistry "ADMET  Prediction  in  silico"
Feb 8 Mr. Stephen Slauson UM Medicinal Chemistry "Medicinal Chemistry of Hepatitis C"
Feb 15 Mr. Akshay Patny UM Medicinal Chemistry "Artemisinin and  Related Endoperoxides"
Feb 22 Dr. Len Lothstein
Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, UT Cancer Institute "N-Benzyladriamycin-14-acyl Compounds:  Improved Antitumor Efficacy Through Protein Kinase C Targeting"
Mar 8 Dr. Kevin Burgess
Professor
Texas A & M University
Department of Chemistry
"Mono- and Bivalent Peptidomimetics to Mimic or Disrupt Protein-Protein Interactions"
Mar 15 Spring Break
Spring Break
NO SEMINAR
Mar 22 Mr. Stephen Scully       
UM Medicinal Chemistry
"Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a legal psychoactive natural product with opioid activity"
Mar 29
Dr. Nirdosh Jagota
Senior Director
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Worldwide Regulatory Affairs
"The Role of Regulatory Affairs in Drug Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry "
Apr 5
Dr . John Cooperwood, Assistant Professor
Florida A & M University "Synthesis and Evaluation of Steroidal Compounds as Anti-Breast Cancer Agents"
  May 3
Dr. Stephen J. Cutler   Associate Professor
Mercer University, Southern School of Pharmacy

 "Use of Natural Products in the Design, Synthesis, and Pharmacological Evaluation of Terphenyl Anti-Inflammatory Agents"
  May 3 Ms. Neha Vyas
 UM Medicinal Chemsitry
 "The Role of Active Metabolites in Drug Discovery"