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VaDDRx: Emerging Targets, Techniques, and Therapeutics for Cancer and Neuroscience
May 21 – 22, 2019 Hotel Roanoke
Roanoke, VA
Keynote speakers
Susan Amara
Scientific Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
Talk: “Dynamic Regulation of Signaling in Dopamine Neurons: New Pathways for Neuropsychiatric Drug Discovery”
Laura M. Bohn
Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute
Talk: “Harnessing Opiod Receptor Function to Improve Physiological Responses”
Susan Horwitz
Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Talk: “Taxol, Tubulin, and Tumors: A Story of Drug Development”
Special Note: Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., has been named one of seven winners of the 2019 Canada Gairdner Award, the country’s highest scientific prize.
B. Frank Gupton – The Medicines for All Institute
Floyd D Gottwald Chair of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Department Chair – Chemical and Life Science Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University
Donna Huryn
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Talk: “Development of Novel Inhibitors of the AAA ATPase p97 to Interrogate Novel Biology and Fuel Drug Discovery”
Judy Leopold
Co-Director, Experimental Therapeutics Program, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Talk: “Precision Polypharmacology: A Rational Design Approach to Cancer Drug Resistance”
Symposium Agenda
This Symposium could not have taken place without the generous support of our Institutional Sponsors, for which we express our sincere gratitude!
- Medicines for All Institute
- Advion
- Carilion Clinic
- City of Roanoke Department of Economic Development
- Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
- University of Virginia – Licensing & Ventures Group
- University of Virginia – Brain Institute
- University of Virginia – Cancer Center
- Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corporation
- Virginia Commonwealth University – Innovation Gateway
- Virginia Commonwealth University – Massey Cancer Center
- Virginia Tech – Outreach & International Affairs
- Virginia Tech – LINK
- BrightSpec
- Buchi
- Sciex
- Woods Rogers PLC
- New River Valley IP Law Group
- Schrodinger