Skaggs Therapeutics: Discovery, Development, Practice and Policy (DDPP) Seminar Series
Held weekly during the Fall, the Skaggs Therapeutics: Discovery, Development, Practice and Policy (DDPP) Seminar Series features world-renowned experts who will discuss all aspects of medicinal research — from discovery to drug pricing — with the goal of sparking new ideas and forging collaborations that improve human health.
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