Seminars

Daniel Nomura, Ph.D.

University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms

Friday, September 27 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1120

Margaret Phillips, Ph.D.

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry 

Potent and reversible proteasome inhibitors for the treatment of malaria identified by phenotypic screening

Tuesday, October 1 | 10-11 am PT
PSB Room 1160

Vsevolod "Seva" Katritch, Ph.D.

University of Southern California
Professor
Department of Quantitative & Computational Biology
Department of Chemistry
Co-Director, Center for New Technologies in Drug Discovery and Development
Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
The Bridge Institute

New Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery, Applied Towards Breaking the Cycle of Pain and Addiction

Friday, October 11 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Thierry Diagana, Ph.D.

Novartis
Head of Global Health and California Sites Head Biomedical Research 
Head of the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases

Novartis Global Health R&D: Innovating for Underserved Patients

Friday, October 18 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120 

Kim D. Janda, Ph.D.

Professor
Departments of Chemistry and Immunology
Ely R. Callaway, Jr. Chair in Chemistry Director
Worm Institute of Research and Medicine (WIRM) Scripps Research

A Pharmacokinetic Strategy to Combat the Ultra-Potent Opioids

Friday, October 25 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120 

Arnab Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Scripps Research
Vice President, Medicinal Chemistry, the Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines

Repurposing Screening to Accelerate Fit-for-Purpose Medicines

Thursday, October 31 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120 

Steven Pearson, M.D., M.Sc.

Founder and Special Advisor
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
Lecturer, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School

ICER and the role of drug value assessment to achieve fair pricing and fair access: From the Inflation Reduction Act to new gene therapies

Monday, November 4 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Prof Dr. Peter Gmeiner

Chair of Medicinal Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Structure-based development of Class A GPCR ligands

Tuesday, November 5 | 1-2 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1170

Ron Dror

Stanford University
Cheriton Family Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Structural Biology and of Molecular & Cellular Physiology

Simulation and Machine Learning of Biomolecular Structure for the Design of Safe, Effective Drugs

Friday, November 15 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Fleur M. Ferguson, Ph.D.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of California San Diego

Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology

Friday, November 22 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120 

Peter J. Turnbaugh, Ph.D.

UCSF 
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Towards a pharma[e]cological view of precision medicine

Thursday, December 5 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

William B. Feldman, M.D., D.Phil., M.P.H.

Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics 
Brigham and Women's Hospital 
Associate Physician
Department of Medicine

The High Costs of Inhalers for Asthma and COPD

Friday, December 13 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120     

Pradipta Ghosh, M.D.

UC San Diego School of Medicine
Professor, Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine

Engineering-driven Biology: Fighting Imprecision in the Era of Precision Medicine

Friday, December 20 | Noon-1 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Christopher Southan, Ph.D.

Professor, Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Mexico
Owner of TW2Informatics

Exploring pharmacological structure-activity relationships in public databases: from patents to AI drug discovery and back

Thursday, January 16 | 11am - 12pm PT
PSB Room 1120

Erika Cyphert, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

Microbial therapeutics – harnessing the microbiome to combat musculoskeletal and infectious diseases

Friday, January 17 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1120

Andrew Willeford, Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCCP

University of California, San Diego – SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences & Heart Failure Pharmacist

A Translation of Clinical Practice in Cardiology to Scholarly Work

April Lukowski, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego – SSPPS & Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Assistant Professor

Discovery and Development of Biocatalysts for Medicinal Chemistry

Friday, February 21 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1120

Chitra Mandyam, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego – Department of Anesthesiology
Professor
Veterans Affairs, San Diego
Research Biologist and Research & Development

Barrier Proteins in Alcohol Dependence: An Understudied Target for Therapeutics

Zaid Yousif, Pharm.D., MAS

University of California, San Diego – SSPPS
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning in Clinical Pharmacy Research

Friday, March 21 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1120

Panteha Kelly, RPh, APh, BCACP, CDCES.

University of California, San Diego – SSPPS
Assistant Clinic Professor
University of California, San Diego – Health System
Clinical Pharmacist and Clinical Coordinator Diabetes Management Clinic

Breaking Barriers: Approaches to Treat Severe Insulin Resistance in Diabetes

Neville Bethel, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Assistant Professor

The Biophysics of De Novo Design

Monday, April 21 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1160

Raymond Suhandynata, Ph.D., DABCC (CC), NRCC (CC), ASCP (C)

University of California, San Diego – Department of Pathology and SSPPS
Assistant Professor

Impact of Tacrolimus Formulation on Measurement Bias: Immunoassay vs. LC-MS/MS

Niamh Higgins, Pharm.D., MSc, AAHIVP

University of California, San Diego – SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
University of California, San Diego – Antiviral Research Center
Center for Compassionate Communication, Affiliate Faculty

Enhancing Compassion to Self and Others Through the Use of a Compassion Training Program Among Research Team Members of the Last Gift Study

Friday, May 16 | Noon-1 pm PT
PSB Room 1120