Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Seminar - Winter 2012
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
4:00 PM, Room 3105
259 Mack Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
Contact: Dr. Zhengping Yi, email: zhengping.yi@wayne.edu, phone: (313) 577-0823

January 25
Radiopharmaceuticals for PET Imaging: from Bench to Bedside in 2 hours!
Peter Scott, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Nuclear Medicine,
Department of Radiology University of Michigan Medical School
Host: Ms. Maria Fawaz

February 01
Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles and Their Similarity to Proteins
Nicholas Kotov, PhD, professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Host: Prof. David Oupicky

February 15
Irreversible Inhibitors of C. Difficile Toxins A and B - A New Approach to Combat Clostridium Difficile Infections
Andrew Feig, PhD, associate professor
Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University
Host: Prof. George Corcoran

February 29
Drugging the Undruggable: Regulator of G Protein Signaling Proteins as New CNS Drug Targets
Richard Neubig, MD, PhD, professor of pharmacology
associate professor of internal medicine/hypertension,
co-Director, University of Michgan Center for Chemical Genomics
Host: Prof. Steven Firestine

March 07
Multifunctional Nano-Medicine: From Diagnostic Imaging to Targeted Therapies
Mansoor M. Amiji, PhD, RPh, distinguished professor and chairman, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
co-director, Nanomedicine Consortium (NERC), School of Pharmacy
Bouve College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
Host: Prof. David Oupicky

March 21
Single Stranded DNA Scanning and Deamination with Single Molecule Resolution
David Rueda, PhD, associate professor
Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University
Host: Mr. Mrudang Shah

April 04
Peptides, Proteins and MAbs
Mathew Cherian, PhD, global director, Global One 2 One R&D
director, Pharmaceutical Development
Hospira. Inc., Lake Forest, IL
Host: Prof. George Corcoran

April 11
Potential Metabolomic Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
Smiti Gupta, PhD, assistant professor
Department of Nutrition and Food Science , Wayne State University
Host: Prof. Aloke Dutta

April 18
Role of SMRT in the Adipocyte
Ronald Cohen, MD, associate professor, endocrinology
School of Medicine, University of Chicago
Host: Prof. Zhengping Yi

April 25
Chemical Tools to Monitor and Manipulate the Proteome
Thomas Kodadek, PhD, professor of chemistry & cancer biology
The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida
Host: Dr. Mahender Dewal

May 09
SAG E3 Ubiquitin Ligase in Angiogenesis & Carcinogenesis: Therapeutic Applications
Yi Sun, MD, PhD, professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
director, Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology
University of Michigan Medical School
Host: Prof. Fei Chen

The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, one of the founding colleges of Wayne State University, is committed to advancing the health and well-being of society through the preparation of highly skilled health care practitioners, and through research to improve health care practices and treatment from urban to global levels.

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