Past Seminars

Daniel Nomura, PhD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Margaret Phillips, PhD

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, 10:00-11:00 a.m. PT
PSB Room 1160

Vsevolod "Seva" Katritch, PhD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Thierry Diagana, PhD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Kim D. Janda, PhD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Arnab Chatterjee, PhD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Steven Pearson, MD, MSc

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 - 1:00 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, 1:00-2:00 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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Fleur M. Ferguson, PhD

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

"Interrogating the Druggable Proteome with Proximity Pharmacology"

Friday, November 22, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Peter J. Turnbaugh, PhD

UCSF
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

"Towards a Pharma[e]cological View of Precision Medicine"

Thursday, December 5, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

William B. Feldman, MD, DPhil, MPH

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Pradipta Ghosh, MD

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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Christopher Southan, PhD

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 | 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Erika Cyphert, PhD

UC San Diego
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

"Microbial Therapeutics – Harnessing the Microbiome to Combat Musculoskeletal and Infectious Diseases"

Friday, January 17, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences & Heart Failure Pharmacist

"A Translation of Clinical Practice in Cardiology to Scholarly Work"

April Lukowski, PhD

UC San Diego – SSPPS and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Assistant Professor

"Discovery and Development of Biocatalysts for Medicinal Chemistry"

Friday, February 21, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Chitra Mandyam, PhD

UC 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, PharmD, MAS

UC San Diego – SSPPS
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor

"Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning in Clinical Pharmacy Research"

Friday, March 21, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Panteha Kelly, RPh, APh, BCACP, CDCES

UC 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, PhD

UC San Diego – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Assistant Professor

"The Biophysics of De Novo Design"

Monday, April 21, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1160

Raymond Suhandynata, PhD, DABCC (CC), NRCC (CC), ASCP (C)

UC San Diego – Department of Pathology and SSPPS
Assistant Professor

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

Niamh Higgins, PharmD, MSc, AAHIVP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
UC 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 - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Kip Guy, PhD

University of Minnesota

"Discovery and Early Development of a Novel Antimalarial:

Thursday, September 25 | Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Elizabeth A. Winzeler, PhD

UC San Diego
Professor, Division of Host Microbe Systems and Therapeutics
Department of Pediatrics & Associate Dean for Research and Innovation
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

"Drugs for Malaria: From New Targets to New Therapeutic Modalities"

Friday, October 3, 1:30-2:30 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Jerold Chun, MD, PhD

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys(SBP) Medical Discovery Institute and Distinguised Scholar at Neurocrine Biosciences in San Diego

"Lysophospholipid Receptors in the Brain and Brain Diseases"

Friday, October 10, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Yoshi Ishihara, PhD

Genesis Therapeutics

"Exploring Functional Groups of the Topliss Tree: Chloro, Methoxy, and Hydroxy Groups in Drug Discovery"

Friday, October 17, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Judy Varner, PhD

UC San Diego
Department of Pathology and Moores Cancer Center

"Small Molecule Approaches to Enhance Anti-Cancer Immunity"

Friday, October 24, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Lauren Albrecht, PhD

UC Irvine
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharm Sciences

"MrTAC: Proximity Inducing Methylator and Lysosomal Degrader"

Friday, October 31, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Thomas F. Martinez, PhD

UC Irvine
Assistant Professor
Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biological Chemistry
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

"Big Surprises from Small Proteins"

Thursday, November 6, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

John MacMillan, PhD

UC Santa Cruz
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

"Natural Product Discovery and Functional Characterization"

Thursday, November 13, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Xiang-Lei Yang, PhD

The Scripps Research Institute
Ernest W. Hahn Endowed Chair
Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology

"Uncovering the SerRS-SIRT2 Axis: Translational and Transcriptional Control in Stress Response"

Friday, November 21, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Sumit Chanda, PhD

The Scripps Research Institute
Professor of Immunology & Microbiology

"Fighting Tomorrow's Viruses Today"

Friday, December 5, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Deanna L. Kroetz, PhD, BS Pharm

Ohio State University College of Pharmacy
Dean and Professor

"Reverse Translational Pharmacogenomic Studies to Understand Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy"

Friday, December 12, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Frank Furnari, PhD

UC San Diego
Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of Regenerative Medicine
Co-Director, Sanford Stem Cell Institute Brain Tumor and Neurorestoration Program

"BRD2 Bromodomain-Mediated Regulation of Cell State Plasticity Modulates Therapy Response in GBM"

Friday, December 19, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Stuart L. Goldstein, MD, FAAP, FASN, FNKF

Center for Acute Care Nephrology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Professor of Pediatrics and Director

"The Transdermal GFR System: Case Studies and Discussion of Applications for Use"

Friday, January 16, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1186

Aryana Sepassi, PharmD, MAS

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy

"Anticipated Differences in Out-of-Pocket Drug Spending under the Inflation Reduction Act: A Focus on People with Cancer"

Thursday, January 29, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Brittany Wright, PharmD, BCACP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy

"Defining a Clinical Focus in Pulmonary Pharmacotherapy: Past Work and Future Directions"

Friday, February 20, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Tze Ning Hiew, PhD

University of Iowa, College of Pharmacy
Assistant Professor

"The Role of Ionic Interaction in Amorphous Solid Dispersion Stability and Release Performance"

Tuesday, February 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Gustavo Trossini, PhD

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo, University of São Paulo, Brazil

"Medicinal Chemistry Tools for the Design of Chemotherapy Against Neglected Tropical Diseases"

Thursday, March 5, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Niamh Higgins, PharmD, MSc, AAHIVP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Center for Compassionate Communication Affiliate Faculty, Antiviral Research Center, UC San Diego Health

"How to Put Together a Happy and Productive Lab Team"

Friday, March 20, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Sara Gianella

UC San Diego Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

"How to Put Together a Happy and Productive Lab Team"

Friday, March 20, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Thibault Alle, PhD

UC San Diego SSPPS
Assistant Adjunct Professor

"Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents: Reviving an Old Target for New Therapeutic Horizons"

J. Felipe Montano-Campos, PhD

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

"GLP-1 Therapy and the Reshaping of Socioeconomic Gradients in Health"

Friday, May 8, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB HSEC Auditorium

Alex Luli, PharmD, BCACP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy

"Experiential Learning in Action: Preparing Practice-Ready Pharmacists Through a Student-Run Free Clinic"

Friday, May 15, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120

Kimberly Won, PharmD, APh, BCCCP

UC San Diego SSPPS
Associate Professor

"Emergency Medicine Pharmacy: A Non-Traditional Pharmacist Role"

Friday, May 15, Noon - 1:00 p.m. PT
PSB Room 1120